Marketing and Communications Senior Officer

General Description

Overview

Please read the information in this job post thoroughly to understand exactly what is expected of potential candidates.

This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

We are seeking a Marketing and Communications Officer to showcase the strengths and opportunities of Leeds’ health innovation ecosystem, with a particular focus on a new, partner-led incubator supporting local and regional businesses.

This newly created role, within a small, dynamic and friendly team hosted by the University of Leeds, offers scope to shape and support marketing activities, projects and approaches together with some of the city’s most influential organisations.

You’ll be part of Leeds Academic Health Partnership – one of the largest of its kind in the UK – which includes the city’s main universities, local NHS organisations, Leeds City Council, regional and third sector partners, all united to reduce health inequalities.

Responsibilities

As Marketing and Communications Officer you will raise the profile of Health Innovation Leeds to key target markets and audiences regionally, nationally and internationally and play a key role in the promotion of the new £2 million Health Innovation Leeds Incubator, funded by the West Yorkshire Investment Zone and led by Nexus at the University of Leeds together with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Leeds Beckett University, in partnership with Leeds City Council.

Benefits

• 26 days’ holiday plus approximately 16 Bank Holidays and days when the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – total of 42 days a year.
• Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance.
• Health and Wellbeing: discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state‑of‑the‑art campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team and entitlement to ten days staff development per year (pro rata).
• Access to on‑site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes. xwzovoh

Apply today if you are looking for a role shaping impactful, strategic and creative marketing and communications at the heart of a dynamic and globally-leading ecosystem.