The successful candidate will play a crucial role in elevating UAL's profile on issues like climate emergency and social and racial justice by leading on the university's corporate communications and spearheading campaigns and profile-building opportunities for its policy and advocacy priorities and spokespeople, ensuring that UAL's voice is central to the ongoing discourse surrounding the value of the Creative Industries. They will use their proactive media skills to create relationships with journalists and influencers to lead and manage the sourcing, developing and selling-in of stories to position UAL as a champion for change, while collaborating across teams to develop media campaigns that amplify UAL's impact nationally and internationally with targeted audiences.
About you
As an experienced PR and Media Relations Manager with in-depth experience of corporate, policy and advocacy communications, you will be able to demonstrate:
1. Experience of success in similar management roles within the sector, fostering relationships with both internal and external stakeholders at senior levels while consistently delivering impactful press campaigns.
2. A track record leading campaigns, crafting effective communication messages, and collaborating with journalists to secure media coverage.
3. Skill in writing compelling copy, simplifying complex concepts, and nurturing a passion for our organisation's purpose and values.
4. Line management experience with a commitment to a supportive and inclusive environment that prioritises both the well-being and professional growth of team members.
Additionally, you will have exceptional organisational, planning, and project management skills, adept at forward-thinking, prioritisation, flexible and accurate execution even in high-pressure situations.
Supporting colleagues across the University, you must be able to collaborate effectively with various teams across diverse professional disciplines.
Working at UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.
Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.
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