Internal Communications and Events Lead
Unifrog
- Closing: 10:00am, 3rd Oct 2025 BST
Job Description
Unifrog’s mission
We’re on a mission to level the playing field when it comes to young people finding and applying for their next step after school. We're achieving this by bringing all the available information into one single, impartial, user-friendly platform that helps students to make the best choices, and submit the strongest applications. We also empower teachers and counsellors to manage the progression process effectively.
Our outlook is global - we work with schools and universities all over the world, from the US to New Zealand, and from Italy to Hong Kong. We want to make it so that young people can compare every opportunity taught in English, wherever it is in the world, and have all the support they need to make successful applications.
We have a clear social purpose, and we’re hugely ambitious. We already work with over half of UK secondary schools, and hundreds of international schools. We are growing rapidly in terms of the number of our customers, in terms of how much they use our platform, and in terms of the breadth of products we offer (check out this video to hear more about the Unifrog platform).
Our team is at the heart of our business and is integral to our success. We work hard to foster a culture of openness, happiness and innovation, and we commit to helping every individual learn and grow so that they can reach their full potential. We want to hire talented people, whatever their background. If you are excited by our mission and are ready to work hard, please don’t hesitate to apply. We look forward to hearing from you!
We believe in the power of diversity. If you are from an ethnic minority background, we would like to strongly encourage you to apply. In advance of applying if you have any questions about working at Unifrog, please contact recruitment@unifrog.org
People and culture at Unifrog
As a People team, we help foster a supportive culture by: trusting our team; removing roadblocks and encouraging autonomy; making an effort to understand everyone’s different wants and needs and using that information to tailor what we offer; and caring about each team member and creating processes that allow them to work at their best. If this fits with your view of what a People team should do, we’d love to hear from you.
What you’ll do
Internal communications (~2.5 days per week)
As our Internal Communications and Events Lead, you will play a key role in engaging, informing, and inspiring our team with what’s happening at Unifrog. You’ll also help us to work even better together, and to retain a happy and effective team.
Your main responsibilities:
Coordinate our whole team comms:
Deliver our internal comms strategy, work towards our People team goal and objectives, and use our House Style.
Create our monthly internal Unifrog newsletter, writing your own segments, editing other people’s contributions, and evaluating engagement.
Collate data from team surveys and work with the People and Leadership teams to put ideas from the team into action.
Improve the way that we communicate and work together:
Share best practice and deliver training on our comms tools (e.g. Slack, Gmail, Asana).
Research, trial and introduce new comms tools or upgrades where appropriate, training the team on how to use them.
Join our AI working group, whose goal is to support the team to use AI more effectively (e.g. leading training, sharing use-cases from across Unifrog).
Support teams with communication challenges (e.g. streamlining comms traffic).
Support team members to easily find the best contact for different questions and tasks.
Manage our existing comms tools:
Audit our usage and budget to make sure we’re maximising value.
Manage individual and team subscriptions to our comms tools.
Help to troubleshoot team questions and issues.
Keep our ‘Unifrog Essentials’ and ‘Who to Contact’ documents up-to-date, and support team leads to keep our Dropbox folders organised.
Work with our Recruitment Lead and Marketing team to shout externally about what’s going on at Unifrog, sharing photos and stories on our website and social media.
Internal events (~2.5 days per week)
Now that Unifrog has 115 team members across the UK and beyond, it’s more important than ever that everyone feels connected, both to each other and to our wider mission.
We currently have:
Three whole company “team days” per year (2x in person, 1x virtual)
Two “away days” per team per year (in person)
Regular socials at our London office
Regular remote socials
Your main responsibilities:
Plan our whole company team days:
Work closely with our CEO and the Leadership team to decide on the team day agenda, budget and format.
Find and book venues, hotels, social activities, and meals, and make sure everything’s set up and runs smoothly on the day.
Support senior managers to plan their away days:
Advise on agendas and book venues, socials, and training.
Facilitate cross-team collaboration (one of each team’s away days is partly combined with another team).
Evaluate our team events and continually look to improve their quality, impact, and inclusivity.
Plan remote socials and office socials for our London HQ.
Support our Unifrog affinity groups - spaces where team members who share common identities (e.g. being parents), can connect, support each other and champion inclusivity.
Keep our EDI calendar up-to-date, and mark and celebrate occasions important to people across the team, including cultural heritage months, awareness days, and commemorative events.
Working together
You’ll be part of our People team alongside our: People Assistant, People Coordinator Recruitment Lead, People Lead, Head of People Operations, and People and Operations Director (your line manager).
You’ll also regularly work with a variety of other team members (especially line managers) when organising events.
What we’re looking for
Experience in planning and delivering events (including virtual events).
Experience in supporting team members to communicate and use comms tools more effectively.
Ideally, experience in delivering whole company comms.
Strong verbal communication and presentation skills.
Excellent writing and proof-reading skills.
Ability to craft clear and powerful narratives from data and insights.
Personable and able to build great professional relationships.
Keen attention to detail.
Excellent organisation skills.
An interest in education, careers, and development.
Ideally, knowledge of emerging trends in internal communications.
Proactive attitude and willingness to get stuck in.
You will be joining a team of highly motivated people who are passionate about our mission of helping students to find the best next step for them after school. If this excites you and you’re an energetic person who is willing to learn, then we’d love to hear from you.
Benefits
Head to our jobs page for a full list of the excellent benefits we offer our team.
Join one of Escape the City’s top 1% employers and help transform careers and destinations in schools.
Become part of a committed, dynamic, and growing company. We want to build our team for the long term: if you do well, we will do our best to make sure you want to stay at the company for a long time.
Professional development is important at Unifrog. You will define your own 6-month objectives and will be supported by your line manager and the rest of the team to achieve them. You will have an annual training allowance to spend on what you need to grow and progress.
Influence the company’s direction: we love to promote great ideas, wherever they come from.
Key details
£37,000 - £39,000 per year, depending on experience. Grade B.
Full-time.
Split your time between working remotely and at our office in Hoxton, London (a minimum of 2 days per week). Applicants must be commutable to London and can expense up to £12.50 per day for travel, up to 2 days per week.
28 days paid holiday per year (plus bank holidays).
Working hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Thursday, and 9am to 4:30pm on Friday.
Start date: as soon as possible, though we will be flexible for the right candidates.
If you require reasonable adjustments, or want to discuss any details about the role before applying please contact Mhairi (recruitment@unifrog.org).
We can only consider candidates who have the right to work in the UK.
Application process
Deadline: 10:00am (BST) on Friday 3rd October 2025.
Stage 1: Application form (~1 hour) ✍️
Visit our website to upload your CV and complete the questions and tasks below. Please note that we do not review CVs at this stage of the application process so please be as specific as possible about your experience.
i. With reference to examples of your recent experience, what would make you an excellent candidate for this role? (250 words)
ii. Tell us about an event you’ve organised (in person or virtual). How did you make the event a success, and what did you learn for the next event?
iii. October is Black History Month (BHM). Write a draft Slack post on our #social channel that: a) gives a short intro to BHM; and b) shares ideas and plans for how people can mark the occasion, learn more, and get involved. (250 words)
We want to see your creativity and individual tone of voice come through in this task. We understand that some candidates may want to use AI to improve their answers, however it's possible this may take away from the individuality of your task and impact your score.
You can write your Slack post directly in the box provided. If you'd like to include emojis or embedded links, please share a Google Doc link instead, ensuring you have set access permissions to “anyone with the link can view”.
Stage 2: Task stage (15 minutes) 📲
The next stage of the application process will be a short phone interview. We’ll send you instructions if you are successful in the first application stage.
Stage 3: Video call interview (1 hour) 🖥️
Standard Q&A from a panel of three, including questions about your experiences and how these relate to the role, and scenario questions based on common situations you might face (plus time for your questions).
Phone interviews will be held throughout the application window. Video call interviews will be held w/c 13th October 2025.
Inclusion and diversity at Unifrog
Within the company we try to foster a culture of innovation, and a happy working environment, both because this is the right thing to do, and because we think this results in the most effective team. To this end we believe in open communication, celebrating successes, supporting each other, not being afraid to be wrong or to fail, and promoting good ideas wherever they come from.
As a platform that supports teachers and students from a huge variety of backgrounds it’s important that our team and leadership reflects this diversity. This is something we are actively working towards and prioritising. We want to embed diversity, equity and inclusion across everything we do, continually evaluating policies and practices to make sure they are inclusive and equitable.
To make sure everyone’s voice is heard and people have the opportunities to learn to be better allies in the workplace, we encourage the team to share what they’re celebrating, facilitate training and group discussions, and seek regular feedback about what more the company could do to help people feel included.
To ensure that our recruitment process is consistent and fair, we anonymise your application and therefore do not see your name, personal, educational or professional background. We also randomise the order of responses so that it’s less likely that a candidate is advantaged or disadvantaged by where their answers appear compared to other candidates.
Removing bias from the hiring process
Removing bias from the hiring process
- Your application will be anonymously reviewed by our hiring team to ensure fairness
- You’ll need a CV/résumé, but it’ll only be considered if you score well on the anonymous review