Communications Specialist

Job Title: Communications Specialist

Location: Rhodes House in central Oxford, Hybrid Working 2 days per week

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-time

Salary: £39,000 - £42,000 per annum

Reports to: Head of Communications

We have an exciting opportunity for a Communications Specialist to join the Atlantic Institute based at the Rhodes Trust. The Communications Specialist will act as the hub of the Communications team, ensuring that activity is strategically prioritised and that effective systems are in place to enable delivery. They will hold knowledge of all activity in the Communications portfolio, ensure that communications plans are developed and delivered, play a key role in content production and gather feedback.  Working with colleagues across the Institute, they will facilitate effective collaborations to ensure the Atlantic Fellows community’s contribution to equity impact grows.  

Role responsibilities;

Key Responsibilities

Coordinator for Communications Team

●      Organise and maintain information sources to support comms content and roll-out planning and delivery, including Asana calendars and spreadsheets.

●      Organise, facilitate and record action points for team meetings, ensuing follow-through of agreed activity and tacking of carried-over agenda points

●      Manage the team’s shared inbox, triaging and prioritising requests for support, working closely with all members of the Communications Team to ensure awareness of workloads and facilitating timely completion of priority projects

Please see the job description for more responsibilities

Content production and promotion

●      Support the production and posting of content, and monitoring platforms for engagement, comments and messages. Contribute to content planning, and create ad-hoc posts for the Institute.

●      Community newsletters, and other promotional email pieces: collation and curation of content, creating draft pieces for sign-off, ensuring mailing lists are up to date, and distributing to an agreed calendar.

Please see the job description for more responsibilities

Other

●      Support colleagues to facilitate meetings and events with existing and prospective partners, drafting briefings, and preparing slide decks where Institute staff are speakers.

●      Manage databases of contacts and suppliers, logging interactions on Salesforce.

●      Monitor stock levels of branded materials and reorder or retrieve from storage as required to support colleagues across the Institute. Source new products when needed.

Person Specification

Essential

●      Experience in a communications or marketing role, having worked on content development and promotion of some sort, in either a professional or volunteer capacity

●      Experience of working collaboratively across teams, with the ability to build positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders.

●      A strong attention to detail, along with being proactive, reliable, and accurate.

Desirable

●      Basic video editing skills are desirable but not essential.

●      Knowledge of data privacy regulations.

Please see the job description for more points on the person specification

Personal Attributes and Qualities

●      A self-starter with a positive and professional approach.

●      Confident and professional manner in dealing with internal and external stakeholders.

●      Team player with a positive approach to new challenges, proven ability to learn quickly, and ability to adapt efficiently to changing situations.

●      Use your skills, experience and knowledge to attract and inspire others; bringing people together in a community

●      Show courage, resilience and creativity in approaching problems and decisions

●      Take responsibility and act with integrity based on strong self-awareness and continuous reflection

Please see the job description for more points on personal attributes and qualities 

About us

The Atlantic Institute is a partnership programme of the Rhodes Trust and was established in 2016 with the support of The Atlantic Philanthropies. The Atlantic Institute is part of an ecosystem of Atlantic Fellows Programs which was established with a shared mission: to empower catalytic communities of emerging leaders to advance fairer, healthier, more equitable societies.  We do this by providing Atlantic Fellows and Atlantic Fellows Program staff with the networks, architecture and resources to connect, learn and act to address the underlying systemic causes of inequity – locally and globally.

Benefits of working with us

•       30 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

•       Competitive pension scheme

•       Generous family leave schemes

•       Private health insurance

•       Employee Assistance Programme

•       Personal development opportunities

•       Additional benefits, such as free access to the University's gardens, parks, libraries and museums, and University staff discounts in shops across Oxford.

•       Cycle to work scheme

•       Electric car scheme

If you would like to find out more, please click ‘apply’ to view the full job description and to find the link to apply. Please send us your CV and a covering letter. Please note, this advert will close on 9 October 2026. Interviews are likely to take place w/c 19 October 2026.

If you have any issues with submitting your application, please email the Recruitment team.

The Rhodes Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We warmly welcome applications from talented people of diverse backgrounds and appoint without regard to age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, parental status, marital or civil partner status, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, nationality, religion or belief.