King's College London

About Us

The School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London is looking for a new Communications Officer in support of its mission to engineer better health for patients in the UK and worldwide. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a vital role in promoting the School, its strategic partnerships, and key healthcare stakeholders, across news stories, digital content, events and internal communications channels.

About The Role

Are you a creative and confident communications professional with a passion for promoting healthcare technologies, cutting-edge medical research and teaching excellence? 

The successful candidate will join a dedicated communications and digital content team positioned directly within the school and the wider communications network across King’s, communicating and celebrating the work of its researchers, academics and students to a diverse range of internal and external audiences. 

The primary function of the role is to support, deliver and measure the communications objectives for the School of Biomedical Engineering, the St Thomas’ MedTech Hub and other initiatives as required, including: 

• Raising the profile of the School and St Thomas’ MedTech Hub including the London Institute of Healthcare Engineering to key audiences through a strong digital presence, events, PR, and creation of marketing collateral and assets 
• Promoting the School and the St Thomas’ MedTech Hub to strategic audiences by identifying, researching and developing a wide range of content (stories, social media, photography, videos, graphics, executive copy) on multiple communications channels 
• Working with the School Communications Manager, members of the Faculty Communications Team and the Senior PR and Communications Manager (Health) to write and promote potential stories to the media and through various communications channels 
• Help develop and support various initiatives aimed at developing, improving and nurturing strategic partnerships with key stakeholders (including corporate, health organisations such as King’s Health Partners NHS) 
• Supporting and developing strategic events (some of which are organised jointly with partners and key stakeholders) 
• Enabling and empowering School staff, researchers and students to produce/contribute to communications materials (including social media posts, conference coverage, blogs) and promote School’s success. This will be done through, for example, providing training and developing guidelines, assisting with media and marketing requests, creating a visual assets bank

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience: 

Essential criteria

1. Educated to degree level or equivalent communications and engagement experience 
2. Good working knowledge of all communication disciplines (written and visual), including social media and communications tools such as Microsoft software, Mailchimp, Eventbrite, creative content producing applications such as Adobe Creative Cloud, content management systems, SEO, digital metrics and their use as part of an integrated communications strategy 
3. Excellent time management and organisational skills, able to manage own workload and prioritise tasks in a busy work environment, managing multiple work-streams independently 
4. Experience of developing a wide range of written and visual content (news stories, blog features, interviews, press releases, executive copy, social media posts, newsletters, photos, videos, graphics, collateral) 
5. Experience of developing and implementing communications strategies and projects using marketing, media, public relations 
6. Experience in using a variety of online and offline communications channels with proven ability to provide advice on most appropriate channels depending on context and user reach 
7. Strong networking skills, with an ability to develop new relationships at all levels with internal and external colleagues, using a collaborative approach to work, supporting others, demonstrating tact and diplomacy 
8. Methodical approach to producing high quality, accurate work within tight time-scales 

Desirable criteria

1. Understanding of the UK higher education system 
2. Experience on developing and delivering external stakeholder initiatives 
3. Experience of working as part of complex teams and structures (e.g. having had to work with various external suppliers or key stakeholders to deliver objectives and collaterals) 
4. Experience of delivering projects within the Higher Education sector, science or health communications

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week) and an indefinite contract. 

Downloading a copy of our Job Description 

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community. 

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. 

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible. 

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages. 

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.