Strategic Communications Officer

University of Oxford - The Bodleian Libraries’ Office for Strategy and Delivery

Placed On: 18th November 2025

Closes: 2nd December 2025

Job Ref: 182923

Location: Clarendon Building, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG

The Bodleian Libraries’ Office for Strategy and Delivery is looking to hire a Strategic Communications Officer to support the implementation of the Libraries’ Strategy.

About the role

You will play an essential role in supporting strategic change and project delivery at the Bodleian Libraries. This will involve developing a comms campaign, drafting emails and newsletters about strategy updates, drafting blog posts to celebrate strategic successes, drafting information packs for managers about the strategy, facilitating consultative workshops about future strategy, and maintaining an internet presence via the Strategy Hub.

As part of the Office for Strategy and Delivery, a small team in the Bodleian Libraries, you will work closely with a range of teams across the organisation. This includes the Communications team, the Assessment team, the Learning & Development team, and various project delivery teams. With these teams, you will ensure you’re prioritising comms messages succinctly, using business-as-usual comms channels to greatest effect, supporting culture change initiatives, and evaluating the success of the comms you’re doing.

This is a fixed-term post for 2 years, working part-time for 29.2 hours (4 days) per week. Exact working hours can be agreed upon offer of the post. Flexible working arrangements could be considered for the right candidate. However, the post holder is expected to be on site at least 2 days per week, ideally 3 days.

About You

• You will have demonstrable experience of contributing to print and digital comms activities, ideally in internal comms and change management.
• Your excellent writing skills, attention to detail, and interpersonal skills will help you to communicate confidently and clearly to internal and external stakeholders.
• You will be able to organise events and make administrative arrangements, working with minimum supervision and a willingness to resolve situations and make judgements on when to refer issues to other team members.
• You will also understand the role of AI and digital developments in comms today and how these apply to your role.

How to apply

You will be required to upload your CV and a supporting statement as part of your online application. Your supporting statement should list each of the essential and desirable selection criteria, as listed in the job description, and explain how you meet each one. CVs alone will not be considered.

Only applications received online by 12.00 midday (GMT) on Tuesday 2nd December 2025 can be considered. Interviews are expected to take place during the week commencing 15th December.