Communications Manager

Description:

The vision of this NIHR RSS Public Health Specialist Centre is to develop the infrastructure, capacity and capability to support practitioners and researchers to carry out high quality public health research, outside the NHS, to produce robust evidence to improve population health and reduce health and care inequalities. Based within the Population and Health Sciences Institute in the Faculty of Medical Sciences this post offers an exciting opportunity to be a key part of the team to establish this new Centre and to take the lead in developing and delivering the communication strategy.

Working as part of the RSS Public Health Specialist Centre leadership team, you will develop, implement and deliver the Centre’s strategy across key digital channels to raise the profile of the Centre and its services to research with stakeholders across England.

 

Key Accountabilities
Establish and raise awareness of NIHR RSS Public Health Specialist Centre and its services, focus and values, to national and international stakeholders
Develop, implement and deliver the Public Health Specialist Centre communication strategy. Ensuring local government voice and representation feeds into the development and delivery of the strategy
Proactively research, develop/write, package and promote stories of services available, research supported and achievements including public involvement activities and research impact, working closely with colleagues to identify services and topics to promote and then communicating these to a specialist and non-specialist audiences via a range of media
Take the lead on developing (including working alongside an external agency) and editing content for a new Public Health Specialist Centre website, including, but not limited to, photographs, video, graphics and social media content
Work closely with the Press Offices within the RSS Public Health Specialist Centre host institution and the NIHR and Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC), to be the interface to facilitating the inclusion of the Specialist Centre in NIHR communications
Establish and manage NIHR RSS Public Health Specialist Centre social media accounts
Develop content strategies to drive visitors to the Public Health Specialist Centre website and create a plan to monitor and improve user experience and site performance. Undertake regular reviews of the content to ensure it is up to date, correct and fit for purpose
Benchmark, track and report on website and social media analytics for the Public Health Specialist Centre website and social media accounts
Ensure messaging is integrated and aligned to wider NIHR, DHSC, Local Government and University communications
Build and nurture highly productive relationships with colleagues in the NIHR Research Support Services across England, particularly with the Public Health Hub (to be established), DHSC and fellow NIHR communications colleagues nationally as well as colleagues in the regional and Newcastle University communications communities that share common goals with the RSS Public Health Specialist Centre
Work with colleagues within the Public Health Specialist Centre Management Team to support event activities by providing communications expertise in this area, including the development of relevant publication materials, promotion of events and associated digital communications needed to promote or run events
To lead on special projects as they arise within NIHR RSS Public Health Specialist Centre
Any other relevant activities required by the Director or Operating Officer of the RSS Public Health Specialist Centre