Communications Officer (maternity cover) B16-01352

About us

About IOE

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

About the Centre for Longitudinal Studies

The UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) manages Britain’s birth cohort studies – a unique set of scientific surveys that have been following generations of Britons through the whole of their lives. Evidence from the studies has shaped the response to some of the biggest social and public health challenges of our time, including obesity, mental health, social mobility, and poverty.

In 2022, CLS embarked on a new three-year communications strategy aimed at deepening engagement with our research participants, and growing our reach and influence with the global scientific and policy communities. Central to our approach will be driving innovation in digital communication.

You will join the CLS Communications & Engagement Team, which has expertise spanning media relations, brand, digital, events, marketing, public affairs and public engagement. You will work with a wide range of scientific experts, including economists, sociologists, epidemiologists, psychologists, demographers, population health scientists, survey methodologists and social statisticians. You will also be part of a 700-strong community of comms and marketing practitioners across UCL, with regular opportunities for networking, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.

CLS is a part of the UCL Social Research Institute, based at the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. We receive our core funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. Visit cls.ucl.ac.uk.

About the role

The Communications Officer supports a full range of communications activity across CLS, including events, digital, media relations and public engagement. They also provide administrative support to the Communications & Engagement Team.

This post is a maternity cover from 1st November 2023 to 31st October 2024 in the first instance.

About you

You will have experience of administration, including scheduling, minute taking, file management and record keeping and experience of event coordination, for both online and in-person events.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days(pro rata for part time staff)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff)
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme
• (CARE)Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.