Marketing and Communications Manager

As Marketing and Communications Manager in the Department of Sports Development & Recreation (DSDR) you’ll be pivotal to maximising profile, awareness and engagement for sport, fitness and well-being facilities, activities and services at the University of Bath.

It’s a broad but exciting role to help the department unleash the power of sport for all of its stakeholder groups.

It’s never been a more exciting time to join us as we have recently been announced as the Times and Sunday Times Sport University of the Year 2026.

**About us**

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The Department of Sports Development and Recreation seeks to create impact through sport, by maximising its unique environment every day for every customer.

The Department manages and organises a range of activities under the University’s sports brand - Team Bath - and aspires to create a world leading multi-sport environment delivering to elite athletes, staff and students of the University and the local and regional community. Based in the inspiring £35m Sports Training Village, the Department offers a wide range of high quality sports activities, programmes, events, services and facilities catering for all ages and abilities.

In addition, we are recognised by UK Sport as one of only eight Elite Centres, providing the training base for around 250 international level athletes. This is an opportunity to become part of a professional and progressive organisation at the leading edge of sport, health and fitness.

This is an exciting opportunity to promote a variety of strands in a diverse environment targeting multiple audiences and age-groups, including the University’s staff and students, the public, community and elite sports organisations coupled with high profile events. This means you’ll be promoting everything from Olympians and Paralympians across several sports to those taking their first steps in sport.

**About you**

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Ideally you will have experience of managing staff in a marketing and communications environment, with demonstrable evidence of contributing to development of marketing and communications strategies, particularly to enable future commercial success.

It would be favourable if you have competence in general marketing skills including social media, graphics creation (using software such as photoshop) and creating web content. You must have good written skills to help with press content and associated PR initiatives.

You will

• develop and deliver effective marketing plans and campaigns that drive sales across the Department-wide range of commercial activities.
• lead the DSDR marketing team in the implementation of its marketing and communications activities including internal and external communications, brand development and management, all media activities across a wide range of platforms, sponsorship and general marketing.

Good planning skills are imperative to help organise the various marketing initiatives across the breadth of the business. Equally, good time management skills and ability to prioritise are inherently essential.

**Further information**

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For an informal discussion about the role please contact Miles Peyton, Head of Commercial Sales (adsmjp@bath.ac.uk) or Sophie Hamer, Head of Sports Operations (adsseah@bath.ac.uk)

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

**What we can offer you**

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We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.

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***Right to Work in the UK:*** *We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our* *application support webpage.*

***Anonymous shortlisting:*** *We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.*