Communications and Engagement Manager – Sponsorship Available

Position: Communications and Engagement Manager

Job Type: Full-Time

Salary: £41,064 to £48,822 per annum

Location: Leeds

Employer: University of Leeds

Application Deadline: Sunday 23^rd August 2026

Full Job Description

This role will be based on the university campus with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements

Curriculum Redefined is one of the University of Leeds’ most significant educational transformation programmes and is helping shape the future of student education across the institution.

Following the successful redesign of more than 780 taught programmes, the programme is entering a new phase. Over the next two years, the focus will shift from large-scale curriculum redesign to embedding change, supporting continuous improvement and ensuring the benefits of the programme are realised consistently across the University.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced communications and engagement professional to help shape that transition. Working with senior leaders, academics, professional services colleagues and students, you will help make progress visible, build understanding and engagement, and support colleagues as Curriculum Redefined becomes part of everyday practice across the University.

You will play a key role in communicating how Curriculum Redefined connects with wider institutional priorities, including academic transformation, educational enhancement and service improvement. Through strategic communications, engagement activity, leadership communications and digital content, you will help colleagues understand not only what is changing, but why it matters and how it contributes to a more student-centred university.

You will be a confident communications leader, able to build and develop high-performing teams, influence senior stakeholders and deliver user-centred communications that support organisational change. You will bring strong digital and content design expertise and be comfortable using audience insight, user needs and user stories to shape effective communications and engagement activity.

This is an opportunity to help shape how one of the University’s most significant transformation programmes becomes embedded into business as usual, supporting a culture of continuous improvement that will benefit colleagues and students for years to come.

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

What we offer in return

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more! 

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Mark Dorey, Assistant Director of Communications and Engagement

Email: M.Dorey@leeds.ac.uk

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