Project and Communications Officer

About the Role
The job role is to co-ordinate and support the activities of the project team and deliver a strong public profile for the Reproductive Borders project, communicating its research activities, outputs, and public engagement events, to a national and international audience, through strategic campaigns and projects encompassing digital and audio-visual communications, stakeholder relations and social media activity. The Project and Communications Officer will work with the PI and the rest of the team to ensure the successful planning, delivery, logistical and financial administration, record-keeping, communications, and publicising of the work undertaken on the Reproductive Borders.

About You
You will have the administrative and marketing skills to, among others:

• Manage production of the database and the website, and associated digital communications.
• Liaise with relevant administrative and academic staff to ensure the smooth administration and reporting of the grant finances, raising purchase orders, organising expense payments, keeping UKRI-compliant documentation of all expenditure.
• Work with the PI and project team to produce reports for the stakeholder advisory board and produce agendas and minutes for advisory board and other project meetings.
• Support effective budget management procedures in the team by carrying out budget administration.
• Manage day-to-day operations of the project and function as the main point of contact for organisational tasks related to project coordination and managing relationships and an effective communication.
• Take the lead in making logistical arrangements for all events including booking rooms and catering; co-ordinating diaries and publicising events.

About the Department
This role sits within the AHRC-funded project (February 2024 – January 2027) Reproductive Borders and Bordering Reproduction: Access to Care for Women from Ethnic Minority and Migrant Groups, led by Dr Camillia Kong of QMUL and collaborating with academics from King’s College London, University of Bristol, and University of Sussex. This three-year research project examines the lived experiences of ethnic minority and migrant women and their barriers in accessing maternal and reproductive healthcare across the reproductive life course, combining interdisciplinary strategies (philosophy, bioethics, law, and sociology), to encourage dialogue across persons with lived experience, clinicians, advocates, and policymakers.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.