Job Description

Global Director External Communication and Brand

• Salary: Highly competitive executive package
• Division: External Communications
• Vacancy Type: Permanent

Location: Flexible UK with access to Cambridge

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading educational and academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

Reporting to the Chief Executive, this is a fantastic opportunity to lead the External Communication and Brand function of an international powerhouse of learning and assessment with global sales of £850m and almost 6,000 people worldwide. The role is both domestic and global, requiring engagement and influencing in the UK and supporting our activities around the world.

Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. That’s why every year, we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success. We give people the opportunity to show what they’ve learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.

We achieve this by embracing change, and continuously focusing on our customers’ needs. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding newer and better ways of doing things.

The Role

In this role you will lead our external communications and brand team, around all our operations globally and our high-profile UK examinations board.

You will support the strategy and development of our brand, in close collaboration with our product groups and liaising closely with the University to ensure coherence of brand and brand policy across Cambridge.

Principal accountabilities include:

• Directly leading the central External Communication and Brand team and working closely with the research team, the business unit public affairs teams, and regional teams around the world
• Positioning the brand of Cambridge University Press & Assessment to build on existing customer loyalty and supporting its significant ambitions for growth
• Supporting the Chief Executive and the Executive Board in all significant events, actions and stories relating to the organisation, including crisis management, risk and reputation
• Ensuring that the organisation’s influencing, communications and brand approaches are outstanding, and that its staff are equipped to deliver them
• Managing the finances of the External Communication and Brand team

About you

To be successful in this role you’ll need exceptional network building, influencing and team management skills and must be comfortable in a complex environment with significant UK and global operations. You will have first class communications skills and the ability to inspire and lead other communications professionals to deliver the highest standards.

Your experience in developing and executing communications strategy will be matched by excellent understanding of policy development. A wide experience of Public Affairs and Communications is essential, ideally in an education, research and/or regulatory environment.

Calm in a crisis, you will have excellent judgement and be highly collaborative, analytical and strategic, as well as aligned to our values. You will also have experience managing communication and brand in an international setting.

The key to our work is our colleagues, whose shared commitment enables us to have an extraordinary impact. We are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of people, and we ensure that every individual is recognised, listened to, and cared for. And because our impact is amplified when our people are empowered, we give everyone the opportunity to develop in their own way. We’ll support you and help give you the resources and training you’ll need to be bold and take ownership of what you do.

For more information, please download our Candidate Information Pack.

https://careers.cambridge.org/jobs/vacancy/global-director-external-communication-and-brand-cambridge/1045/description/

To apply, please email your CV and covering letter to our retained consultants Signium UK, at 

cl**********@si*****.uk

The closing date for applications is the 21 November 2021. Interviews are scheduled to take place during December.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it’s safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe that diversity of thought, background, and approach create better outcomes. More importantly, fostering an inclusive culture is the right thing to do, and it’s part of how we achieve our purpose: to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Ensuring that anyone, no matter who they are, feels they belong here is an essential part of who we are and the contribution we make to society, and to our planet.

To enable an environment which our people can thrive in, our customers benefit from, and where work complements life, we empower everyone to manage their time and capacity, and to prioritise their wellbeing. That’s why from day one everyone at Cambridge University Press & Assessment can discuss flexible working options to find the best solution for them and their role.

How to Apply

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: Not Disclosed.

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