Post Title: Communications, Education and Outreach Officer Post Status: 5 Year Contract Department/Faculty: CONNECT/Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics, & Science, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin Location: Dunlop Oriel House, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, Ireland Reports to: Executive Director Salary: Appointment will be made on the Administrative 1 (to the bar) salary scale (€55,196 – €68,476 per annum) at a point in line with current Government pay policy Closing Date: No later than 12 Noon (GMT) on Monday, 30th March 2015 PLEASE NOTE: All applications must be received through e-recruitment and no applications will be accepted after the specified closing time or date
Description
The successful candidate will be expected to take up post on May 1st or as soon thereafter as possible.
Post Summary
CONNECT is Ireland’s Future Networks and Communications Research Centre. Co-funded by the Irish government through Science Foundation Ireland and by industry, its mission is to research, develop and innovate new communications solutions to address many of the challenges facing society. CONNECT is headquartered in and led by Trinity College Dublin who are partnered by 9 other Irish academic institutions and 36 companies ranging from large ICT multi-nationals to smaller and emerging indigenous companies.
The Communications, Education and Outreach officer will be responsible for all elements of the branding and marketing of CONNECT. S/he will be expected to develop the strategies for communicating with the different CONNECT stakeholders – the academic community, industry, agencies, Government, university leaders, and the wider public. The successful candidate will be tasked with leading on web and social media strategies. More importantly the candidate will build the CONNECT identity across the ten CONNECT institutions. This involves dealing with complexities around competing brands. The individual will be expected to liaise with all of the different Communication Offices in the CONNECT HEIs and build relationships. S/he will be expected to interact with media and the press, and identify and execute promotional opportunities, along with assisting the Principal Investigators (PIs) with interacting with press and media. The complexity and geographical spread of CONNECT adds to these challenges. Please visit jobs.tcd.ie for full job specification and application details
Nr of positions available : 1
Research Fields
Engineering
Career Stage
Early stage researcher or 0-4 yrs (Post graduate)
Experienced researcher or 4-10 yrs (Post-Doc)
More Experienced researcher or >10 yrs (Senior)
Research Profiles
Not defined
Requirements
| Engineering |
| Computer engineering |
| ENGLISH |
| Excellent |
| Computer science |
| 4 |
| The candidate must have an appropriate third level qualification in the area of Science Communications, Science Marketing, or Science PR. |