Communications and Marketing Manager

The Role

We're looking for an ambitious and creative Communications and Marketing Manager to lead how we tell the story of the Students' Union.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the communications strategy for one of the UK's largest Students' Unions, leading a talented team that sits within our Membership Services Directorate while working collaboratively across the whole organisation.

You'll be responsible for developing and delivering an ambitious communications and marketing strategy that brings our mission to life. Whether it's showcasing the impact of student representation, encouraging students to join a society, promoting our advice and support services, launching campaigns, celebrating student success or driving engagement with our social enterprises, you'll ensure our communications connect with students in meaningful and authentic ways.

As the lead manager for communications and marketing, you'll oversee our brand, campaigns, digital communications and content, ensuring every interaction reflects who we are and the value we create for students. You'll use insight and evaluation to continually improve how we engage our members, helping more students discover opportunities, influence change and feel part of our community.

You'll also play an important role across the organisation, partnering with colleagues, elected Officers and student leaders to provide expert communications advice and embed effective planning into major organisational projects.

We're looking for someone with experience of leading communications and marketing activity, developing successful campaigns and managing high-performing teams. You'll be an excellent communicator with strong strategic thinking, sound judgement and a passion for creating communications that genuinely make a difference.

If you're excited by the opportunity to shape the voice of an organisation that exists to improve the lives of 38,000 students, we'd love to hear from you.

When you come to work @UoNSU you bring your skills, experience, talent, commitment and a desire to do a great job. Our Students’ Union prides itself on being inclusive, working collaboratively and empowering individuals to be the best they can. In return we want to be an employer where every member of the staff team feels valued, trusted, inspired, and able to grow and to have fun.

We welcome people from different cultures, ethnicities and beliefs – this very diversity is vital to our success, it is fundamental to our values and enriches life on campus. We value diversity, promote equity and challenge discrimination. We are on a journey to increase the diversity of our staff team and we would like to encourage applications from disabled, LGBT+ and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds to better reflect the diverse community we serve.

We offer a range of employee benefits which support employee wellbeing such as flexi-time, flexible working, generous holiday allowance, generous staff pension, paid Union closure days, learning and development opportunities and much more.

• flexi-time
• flexible working
• generous holiday allowance
• generous staff pension
• paid Union closure days
• learning and development opportunities
• and much more.

Here at the University of Nottingham Students’ Union, we are a connected student community. A brilliant, diverse and ambitious community. We are proudly independent from the university and right at the heart of student life. We’re a diverse community from first-year undergraduates to research students, elected student Executive and staff, to volunteers, pioneers, and so much more. Together, we are getting involved, making change, and supporting each other, making student life at the University of Nottingham the very best it can be.

We are one of the largest Students’ Union in the country, connecting student members to share, support and inspire each other while  a registered charity we act as the recognised representative body of all students at the University, and every student is automatically a member free of charge. We provide a range of activities, events, campaigning, commercial and professional services…