Head of Communications - Cambridge, United Kingdom - King's College Cambridge

King's College Cambridge

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Description

Head of Communications
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About Us_

King's is a constituent College of the University of Cambridge.

Founded in 1441 by Henry VI as a place of education, religion, learning and research, the College comprises around 130 Fellows, 650 undergraduate and postgraduate students and 275 non-academic staff.

The College is internationally recognised as a leading academic institution, boasting among its former students and Fellows no fewer than eight Nobel laureates, including Patrick Blackett, Frederick Sanger,

Sydney Brenner, Philip Noel-Baker and Oliver Hart, as well as influential figures such as Alan Turing, E.M.

Forster, John Maynard Keynes and Bernard Williams. Among its most prominent living members are the novelists Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie, astronomer Martin Rees, sociologist Anthony Giddens, anthropologist Caroline Humphrey, former chair of the Bank of England Mervyn King, philanthropist David

Sainsbury, molecular biologist Lesley Anne Glover, entrepreneur and computer scientist Hermann Hauser, composers Judith Weir (Master of the King's Music) and Errollyn Wallen, the first black woman to have a composition performed at The Proms.

The undergraduate and postgraduate community is vibrant and diverse, priding itself on a friendly and inclusive atmosphere combining academic commitment with political engagement and a lively social and artistic scene.

King's has long been leading the way in undergraduate recruitment from the state sector. The

College works very hard to attract the best applicants, regardless of background, and to encourage academically outstanding students from underrepresented communities to study at Cambridge.

In 2018 it launched a transformational Student Access and Support Initiative designed to improve equality of access and opportunity, and to help combat entrenched social and economic disadvantage.

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The Role_

The College is seeking an outstanding individual who will build on the recent successes of our King's Campaign and alumni engagement.

This will involve maintaining our excellent alumni relations whilst shaping a communications strategy for the College's many constituencies - those within the College, among our alumni, and with the national and global audiences who engage with the College's life and educational mission.

The new Head of Communications will have the opportunity to build an expanded team behind the new strategy.

They will be willing to get their 'hands dirty', creating and editing content, but also have the vision and skillset to shape a communications capability appropriate to a world-famous institution.

This is a high-profile role within King's, involving close working with the College's senior leadership, as well as with our energetic academic, student and alumni communities.

King's is an exciting and dynamic place, and the Head of Communications will be critical in guiding those energies and communicating them to our alumni and the wider world.

The role is currently supported by a small team, focused mainly on alumni engagement, with the expectation that this will grow to support additional audiences and capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Communication strategy

Design a dynamic communications strategy, covering both internal and external communications, that enables King's to meet its objectives.
Take overall responsibility for delivering the agreed communications strategy through a full range of channels, including digital, social media and print.
Adopt an evidencebased approach, using audience research and appropriate metrics to support strategy development and monitoring of progress.

Public relations and community engagement

Secure attention for King's priorities and people in traditional and social media.
Be proactive in securing positive national and local press coverage for the College, maintaining a strong network of media contacts as appropriate.
Provide the College's response to outside and internal events. This may require working out of hours and media monitoring out of hours.
Attend to the College's reputation in the local Cambridge community and facilitate positive relations with relevant community stakeholders.

Alumni, development, and fundraising

Work with the Director of Development to ensure highimpact alumni and fundraising communications, maintaining a consistent voice and content quality.
Advise and work with the Development team on brand and communications for major fundraising campaigns and key events.
Oversee the production of College publications, including the College's biannual alumni magazine (King's Parade) and Annual Report.

College community

Elicit and coordinate contributions from the College community, including regular newsletters, information on the College's onsite screens and noticeboards.
Be proactive in identifying initiatives to maximise communication, engagement, and interaction within the College community —