Appointment of Head of Marketing and Head of Engagement

27 Jul 2018

Claire Brown has been appointed as Head of Marketing in the Division of Communications and Marketing

Head of Marketing

Claire is currently working as an independent consultant in higher education marketing and prior to this she spent 17 years with the University of Liverpool.

In her most recent role as Director of External Relations, Marketing and Communications at the University of Liverpool, Claire was responsible for providing data and insight to inform all elements of the University’s strategy and for positioning the University as a world-leading research-intensive university. Claire will join us on Monday, 3 September 2018.

Head of Engagement (secondment)

Current Head of Communications Rachael McGraw will take up a new project role (on secondment) as Head of Engagement working for the Vice-President for Social Responsibility Professor James Thompson and the Senior Leadership Team. 

Rachael will be leading on employee engagement and working with colleagues in Human Resources to determine the University’s engagement model, tools, resources and offer to employees and leaders. 

Rachael has already started to work in this area, which complements her existing portfolio in some aspects of internal communications.

The backfill (temporary career development opportunity) for Rachael’s substantive role as Head of Communications will be an internal recruitment and the opportunity will be advertised shortly.

Sally Sykes, Director of the Division of Communications and Marketing, said: "I would like to thank Andy Simmons for stepping into a leadership role for the last 10 months and for his contribution to leading the team, and also Rachael for her commitment to leading internal and external communications.

"Please join me in wishing Rachael McGraw every success and in welcoming Claire Brown to the University."