Communications Coordinator - Cambridge, United Kingdom - University of Cambridge

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We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and talented digital Communications Coordinator to join us on a fixed term contract initially until the 30th September 2024.


PEDAL is the Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development, and Learning based in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.

We conduct world-leading research on childhood and mobilise knowledge to help to improve children's lives and life chances.


This role offers an exciting opportunity to join a busy and vibrant research team and to shape and deliver a digital communications and marketing initiative to broaden their reach and influence.


About the Role


The Communications Coordinator will ensure that we have an up-to-date, high-quality and an impactful social media presence, which mobilises knowledge from across PEDAL to reach key audiences, particularly those working in policy and practice.


As a skilled copy writer and editor, with a good eye for design, you will support colleagues in PEDAL to produce a range of high-quality content for use across a range of channels.


A commitment to continuous improvement is important, and you will be required to monitor and report on our communications activity, capturing qualitative and quantitative information about our reach and impact and using this to drive progress.


As the Communications Coordinator you will be required:

  • Support colleagues to engage effectively with a range of stakeholders.
  • Build our brand as a "goto" place for worldleading research and expertise about play, development and learning in early childhood.
  • Communicate our research in an authoritative and accessible ways so that academic and other research audiences use, build on and amplify our findings.
  • Equip policy makers, service providers and professionals with information and insights that will help them to improve children's lives and life chances.
This post is a fixed term contract initially for 10 months, but could be extended.


The further particulars of this role can be found on the link below this advert.
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