Planning and Evaluation Manager

Location: Hybrid - UAL High Holborn/Home
Salary: £43,512.00 - £51,996.00 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Term: Full time - 35 hours per week

We believe the world needs creativity. At the core of our 10-year strategy is a commitment to making the world a better place through our collective creative endeavour. We are now seeking a talented Planning and Evaluation Manager as part of a new UAL-wide communications function.

The role of Planning and Evaluation Manager will be key in working across the department to support colleagues with sequencing messages for our audiences with shared planning processes and supporting the evaluation of our activity.

The successful candidate will work closely with UAL-wide and College Communication teams to plan communications and engagement activity with all of our key audiences, championing UAL and College brands, vision and values as part of the UAL-wide communications strategy.

The role will be responsible for setting and maintaining a shared planning grid for the department, evaluating key campaign activity across the department, fostering a culture of evaluation with colleagues and designing and implementing an evaluation toolkit for colleagues across the department to work with.

You will be part of a larger UAL-wide communications function of professional communicators including media relations, PR, brand, strategy, audience insight, creative, content, social media and digital communications. You will be line managed by the Senior Strategy and Insights Manager and part of the Brand and Strategy team.

About you

We are looking for a Planning and Evaluation specialist that is excited about the critical role that communications planning and evaluation can play for our audiences. The new Strategy and Insights team is going to be a critical part of the new Communications department so we are looking for a candidate who is excited about the task of establishing a new role in the department and will bring energy and enthusiasm to this task.

We are looking for a candidate that has extensive experience in communications planning, campaign evaluation and project management. Collaboration will be crucial in the success of this role and so strong communication and presentation skills as well as an ability to talk through complex data in a clear and concise way will be important.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

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Closing date: 21 February 2025 at 23:55.

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn - a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.