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Job
Change Communications & Engagement Executive
Vacancy ID
11821
College/Service
Social Purpose
Location
Hybrid – UAL High Holborn/Home
Salary
£39,644 - £48,394
Contract
Permanent
Hours
35
Apply by
15 September 2025, 11:55 pm
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The opportunity
The Change Communications and Engagement Executive is part of a team delivering a shared UAL communications and engagement plan for strategic outcomes such as creating a positive and inclusive staff experience, building higher levels of staff engagement, and enabling staff to be ambassadors for UAL.
Reporting to the Change Communications and Engagement Manager, this role will use communications to help deliver successful strategic change projects. The role will help plan change communication strategies, key messages and help deliver a range of online and face-to-face staff engagement activities such as briefings, informal networking opportunities and feedback mechanisms.
The role will support UAL leaders and managers who are delivering change projects, key groups of staff affected by change and champions cascading change information, to ensure they feel supported in their communications and that narratives are sensitive, well timed and informative.
This role is part of an integrated structure to enable an audience-first approach, with teams working together on projects to maximise the audience benefit and understanding of strategic messaging.
Your profile
We’re looking for a creative and collaborative communicator, who is confident to act as a trusted advisor to guide various stakeholders through organisational change and transformation. With experience delivering impactful internal communications in complex settings, you’ll possess great writing and planning skills. If you’re someone who thrives on building relationships, developing communication strategies, crafting tailored messaging, and managing multi-channel content, we’d love to hear from you.
We are UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.
Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.
As a University we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.
Application process
We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our job board. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.
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