The Head of Regional Campaigns and Communications is a crucial leadership role within Queen's University Belfast, tasked with supporting the overarching goal of promoting and enhancing the University's brand and profile across the island of Ireland and building engagement with key external stakeholder groups. The post holder will report to the Director of Strategic Communications with a broken line report to the Director of Queen’s Global, the team responsible for supporting the delivery of ambitious student recruitment targets and international partnership plans.
The post holder will take a multi-faceted approach that includes developing innovative strategies, effective communications and engagement initiatives focused on raising the University's Civic University profile while working with teams as appropriate such as Alumni Engagement and Philanthropy, managing key campaigns with alumni and prospective donors. They will work as a link between a number of teams including Strategic Communications and Queen’s Global to ensure a coordinated marketing and communications narrative, bringing greater awareness of the University's key messages and current priorities under Strategy 2030, and building purposeful relationships with key audiences.
About the person:
Key responsibilities will include:
Essential Criteria includes the following:
To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.
What we offer:
Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits/
Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality.
For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity.
Candidate Information
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