Policy and Campaigns Manager (Tackling Sexual Violence, Harassment and Hate Crime)

About the Role

We are seeking to appoint a Policy and Campaigns Manager (Tackling Sexual Violence, Harassment and Hate Crime) to lead prevention activity across the University.

The postholder manages and develops the University’s Report and Support platform and leads on the coordination, quality assurance and evaluation of mandatory student training required under Office for Students (OfS) Condition E6. The role also designs and delivers awareness campaigns and wider prevention initiatives aimed at tackling sexual violence, harassment and hate crime.

Working closely with colleagues across Student Wellbeing, the Students’ Union, HR and academic departments, the postholder analyses institutional data, produces reports (including the annual institutional report), and provides specialist advice to governance groups and senior stakeholders.

This is a key professional role within the Student Life team, contributing specialist expertise to the University’s work on student safety, wellbeing and inclusion.

About You

You will be educated to degree level and have experience of planning and delivering projects in a structured and organised way. A project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2), or willingness to undertake formal training, is required. We welcome applications from candidates who have developed these skills through professional practice in higher education, the voluntary sector or related fields.

You will bring substantial experience of managing complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives and a strong understanding of harassment and sexual violence in a higher education or related context. You will be confident analysing and interpreting data, producing clear written reports, and advising colleagues on sensitive topics. Strong communication, organisational and stakeholder management skills are essential.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The role sits within the Student Life team in Student Wellbeing, part of the Student Experience Directorate. The team oversees services including Report and Support, the Chaplaincy, the Student Health Service and Music, and works in partnership with the Students’ Union and other professional services teams to deliver prevention initiatives, welcome and induction activity, and student events.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.