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External Communications Officer
Public relations and media
Location
Egham
Salary
£34,670 to £40,284
per annum - including London Allowance
Post Type
Full Time
Hours per Week
35
Weeks per Year
52
Closing Date
23.59 hours BST on Sunday 16 August 2026
Reference
0726-262
Right to work: Please note that it will not be possible for the University to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship to the successful candidate for this position. Therefore, the appointable candidate will need to be eligible to work in the UK or have leave to remain in the UK and associated right to work for the duration of their employment with the University, in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
Full-Time, Fixed-Term for 12 months.
Applications are invited for the post of External Communications Officer in the Marketing and Communications Department.
Royal Holloway, University of London is looking for a creative, digitally savvy communicator to help tell the stories that build our reputation, across both media and social.
This is a genuinely blended external comms role. You'll spot and land media coverage that raises our profile locally, nationally and internationally, and you'll work closely with Social Media colleagues to drive reputation-building storytelling across our channels, particularly LinkedIn: positioning the University as authoritative, relevant and impactful with professional and sector audiences. You’ll also help surface the research, partnerships and impact that matter most. As this area of our work grows, it's a real opportunity to help shape how we do it.
Day to day you'll:
- Identify and deliver proactive media and PR activity across owned and earned channels, and handle reactive media enquiries with confidence
- Shape and produce reputation-building content for social, web and print, with a strong focus on growing our presence on LinkedIn
- Build relationships with journalists, academics and colleagues across the University, surfacing the research, partnerships and impact worth amplifying
- Monitor and evaluate how our coverage and content is performing, using what you learn to sharpen what we do next
- Support the University's response to issues and crises, helping protect our reputation when it matters most
We're looking for someone who's both creative and analytical. You'll be as comfortable pitching a story to a national journalist as you are reading what the data tells you about how it landed. You'll bring sharp editorial judgement, an eye for a strong story, and the digital instincts to know where and how it will perform, then the curiosity to measure it and do it better.
If you want a role with breadth, the chance to develop a growing area of our work, and a team that cares about doing comms well, we'd love to hear from you.
In return we offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Training and Development opportunities
- Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution
- Various schemes including Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loans and help with the cost of Eyesight testing.
- Free parking
The post is based in Egham, Surrey where the University is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London.
For queries on the application process the Human Resources Department can be contacted by email at: recruitment@rhul.ac.uk
Please quote the reference: 0726-262
Closing Date: 23:59, 16 August 2026
Interview Date: To be confirmed
The university has adopted hybrid working for some roles therefore some remote working may be possible for this role.
Royal Holloway is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), and encourages applications from all people regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, parental status, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or trans status or history. More information on our structures and initiatives around EDI, including information on staff diversity networks, can be found on our Equality and Diversity Intranet page.