Advertised from 27 August 2025

Role

Salary: £37,694 - £46,049

FTE: 1 (35 hours/week)

Term: Open Contract

Closing Date: 14 September 2025

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Communications and Engagement team working at the heart of CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection. We’re looking for a communications all-rounder with a record of achievement, who values storytelling and thrives on working in multidisciplinary teams and projects. Suitable candidates will need the skills, knowledge and experience required to help CELCIS continue to deliver high-quality, impactful outputs which help people to understand the needs of children, young people, their families and carers, so that people working to support them can make improvements to support, services and experiences in Scotland and further afield.

This Communications Manager role in CELCIS’s Communications and Engagement team works across a number of subject areas, including child protection, and different tasks, projects and responsibilities at any one time. The work covers real depth and breadth across our work. Examples of this include advising colleagues of what’s being reported about key issues affecting policy and services; helping to reframe the language of care experience; producing, designing and promoting reports; developing communications plans and materials for long-term projects; facilitating background briefings for journalists; and supporting guest authors to write posts for the CELCIS blog.

The role requires the ability to be flexible and adapt to changing contexts and needs, and to exercise attention to detail. Candidates need to have an interest in and respect for the voices and experiences of people with personal and practice experience of children’s care and protection, and to be open and curious, working with sensitivity in a trauma-informed environment.

The Communications Manager reports into CELCIS’s Communications and Engagement Lead, has line management responsibility for two Learning and Engagement Officers, and candidates will be required to have good organisational skills, including experience of managing capacity and resourcing.

This post is being recruited as an Open Contract and is subject to continued grant funding.

Please apply using the application form. CVs will not be accepted in applications for this role.

About CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection

As a leading improvement, innovation and research centre in Scotland, at CELCIS we work to improve the lives of children and young people in need of care and protection, and their families and carers. We do this by supporting people and organisations responsible for their care to make changes in services and in the practices and skills they use, all based on the needs and experiences of children and young people.

CELCIS is part of Strathclyde University, and staff are university employees with access to rewards and benefits, including annual salary increments and membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme. We are also committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and offer a number of benefits, including flexible working, paid maternity and paternity leave, an on-campus nursery and access to the Strathclyde Sport leisure centre.

Help us to tell the story of what services, work, and investment is needed to support children and young people in need of care and protection, their families, and carers, to inform and equip the workforces who support them, and share what it takes to change policy and practice.

Change is happening. Be part of it. Together we can make things better for children, young people and their families.

Application notes

To apply, please visit our website.

Closing Date: 14/09/2025 

Formal interviews for this post will be held on Thursday, 9 October 2025