Global Engagement Manager

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The opportunity

The University of the Arts London (UAL) is seeking a motivated and talented Global Engagement Manager to join our dynamic communications team. Reporting to the Head of External Communications, you will play a crucial role in enhancing UAL’s reputation and global impact by building networks and establishing connections with key audiences, including international press, academic leaders, businesses, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. Your expertise in developing and implementing outreach strategies will help position UAL and our academic experts in prominent media outlets, conferences, and public forums, elevating their profiles globally and advancing our collective impact. This is a brand new role where the postholder will devise and execute a strategic approach to fostering engagement with our international audiences, working closely with UAL’s leading academics and researchers.  UAL research and knowledge exchange are central to our transformative approach to addressing global challenges and driving positive change and we are looking for a candidate who can help amplify this on the world stage. Your engagement strategies will help ensure the university’s voice on a range of challenging issues becomes part of the international conversation. You will play an instrumental role in developing how we communicate our vision to external audiences in key international territories such as Asia and North and South America.

 

About you

The successful candidate will have proven experience delivering measurable improvements in reach and relationships through communications and/or marketing. An understanding of academic and creative industry audiences and thought leadership and research within these industries is key.

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Zele Akhilele, Resourcing Adviser via email at Socialpurposestaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk 

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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