ClimateXChange Communications Manager

The University of Edinburgh is hiring a Communications Manager for ClimateXChange, focusing on science communications and policy engagement. This full-time role (35 hours/week) offers a salary of £40,497 to £48,149 per annum, with options for part-time and flexible working, including hybrid arrangements. The position is fixed-term until March 2026, requiring strong communication skills and experience in various channels.
Job Description

Grade UE07: £40,497 to £48,149 per annum, pro-rata if part time

CSE/ School of Geosciences

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fixed term: to 31 March 2026

The Opportunity

ClimateXChange - Scotland’s Centre of Expertise connecting climate change research and policy - are looking for a dynamic communications manager with a passion for science communications and knowledge exchange, and a flair for telling powerful impact stories. You will join the busy ClimateXChange team to plan and deliver communications and engagement activities across all our projects connecting climate change research and policy.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), however, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns. We are also open requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working. 

The salary for this post is £40,497 - £48,149 per annum, pro rata if part time.

Your Skills And Attributes For Success
• Strong communications strategy experience
• A track record of writing and editing for a policy audience
• Experience of working across a range of communications channels
• Ability to lead on planning, running and reporting from a range of events

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Application Information

Please apply by submitting a CV and a cover letter.

As a valued member of our team you can expect:
• A competitive salary
• An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
• To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
• Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.

Championing Equality, Diversity And Inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Key Dates To Note

The closing date for applications is 10 April 2025.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.

Shortlisting of applications will take place on 24 April, with interviews anticipated on the 6 and 7 May at the earliest.

About Us

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About The Team

The School of GeoSciences explores the factors and forces that shape our world. The School aims to understand the world through fundamental curiosity-driven research and to support prescient decision-making at individual to global scales. We undertake world-leading research; offer new ways of understanding natural and social drivers of change; provide inter-and trans-disciplinary solutions; and work in partnership to improve livelihoods and explore ways to manage the environment that are both sustainable and socially equitable.

With over 500 academics, researchers and research students, we are the largest and most successful interdisciplinary grouping of geoscientists and geographers in the UK. Research activity is coordinated within three main Research Institutes – Global Change, Earth and Planetary Science, and Geography and the Lived Environment – and within smaller research groupings that reach across and beyond the School.

A distinctive feature of the School is the combination of academic strength, intellectual breadth and societal relevance. Our interdisciplinary research and teaching builds on established core disciplines (ecology, environmental sciences, geography, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography) to provide a variety of approaches to understanding the world (including, for example, system-scale modelling, process studies and the development of urban and social theory). The School’s research covers fundamental ‘blue-skies’ questions, as well as having application to key societal challenges including inequality and vulnerability; urban precarity; nature and cultural meaning; development and sustainability; climate and environmental change; energy, food and water security; health and wellbeing; natural resources; and natural hazards.

The School holds a Bronze Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to gender equality in higher education. Our aim is to recognise and value diversity in our staff and students, and to support flexible and family-friendly working.

More details about the School is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences