We are recruiting! Communications and Engagement Officer

ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences

Are you passionate about making a difference? Do you want to be part of a dynamic team helping to drive forward research into how policing can better service the needs of vulnerable groups? Are you an experienced communications professional with a passion for creating and delivering engaging and effective campaigns to facilitate stakeholder engagement? Can you help lead and deliver a strategic collaborative approach to communications to raise the profile and reputation of organisations and develop excellent working relationships and partnerships? 

An experienced, self-motivated communicator, you will excel at developing effective communications and engagement campaigns and activities, forging beneficial relations with external partners in the public and voluntary sectors. You will work across multiple channels, including digital, to increase the impact and profile of the Centre’s activities. You will proactively develop and maintain excellent working relationships and partnerships, internally and externally, to support and develop communications that align with the Centre’s priorities.

The successful candidate will be pivotal in articulating and promoting the Centre’s strategy and activities to key academic, practitioner, policy and public audiences. You will develop manage and drive the Centre’s communications and engagement strategy, gaining high levels of engagement across the full range of the Centre’s activities. You will work with the Centre’s project partners and Core Academic Team as well as build and maintain new strategic relations.

We are looking for an inspirational Communications and Engagement Officer to help develop and implement a communications strategy and contribute to external engagement on behalf of the newly awarded ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre. This £10 million Centre is funded for a minimum of five years, from 1 May 2022, with the opportunity to apply for a further five years funding thereafter. This ambitious programme is being co-located at the Universities of York and Leeds.  You will work closely with the co-Directors, Professor Adam Crawford at the University of Leeds and Professor Charlie Lloyd, University of York, supported by a team of 26 academics at York, Leeds and other universities, and 38 project partners, including police forces, national professional organisations NGOs and government departments.

For full details of this role, and how to apply, please click here: Current vacancies at the University of Leeds