The Brand Communications Specialist develops, delivers, and elevates brand-led communications across Frontiers. This role shapes and executes integrated campaigns-defining clear messaging, creating compelling content, and ensuring consistent storytelling across channels-to bring our brand story, values, and strategic priorities to life.

Working closely with colleagues across Digital Marketing, Editorial, Research Integrity, Design, Internal Communications, and leadership, the Brand Communications and Campaigns Specialist ensures strong brand expression and impactful storytelling across campaigns, platforms, and audiences.

This is a hands-on, creative, and strategic role for someone who thrives on turning complex ideas into engaging narratives-and delivering polished, on-brand communications at pace.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and implement brand communications campaigns that highlight Frontiers' mission, editorial model, technologies, and impact.

• Plan and execute messaging frameworks and narrative structures for campaigns and strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with brand strategy and organizational priorities.

• Produce high-quality content across various formats-such as campaign copy, video scripts, social and web copy, leadership messaging, blog posts, and infographics-translating complex topics into clear, accessible storytelling.

• Collaborate with in-house teams to create multimedia content and ensure brand consistency across all communications and assets.

• Support the rollout and evolution of brand guidelines, toolkits, and templates for internal use.

• Work cross-functionally with publishing, editorial, digital marketing, and product teams to articulate differentiating stories and meet communications needs for events, campaigns, product launches, and organizational announcements.

• Respond quickly to emerging communication needs and contribute to special projects such as annual reports, editorial series, leadership speeches, and brand campaigns.

Requirements

Essential:

• Experience in brand, communications, marketing, or content development- ideally within publishing, science, technology, academia, or mission-driven organizations.

• Exceptional writing and editing skills, with a proven ability to craft compelling narratives.

• Ability to distil complex information into accessible messaging.

• Experience developing campaign messaging and multi-channel content.

• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.

• A collaborative approach and comfort working with specialists from diverse disciplines.

Desirable:

• Understanding of open science, research publishing, academic communication, or scientific storytelling.

• Experience in video scripting, brand messaging frameworks, or brand governance.

• Familiarity with working in a fast-paced, global environment.

• Experience using web and email content management systems

About Frontiers:

At Frontiers, our purpose is simple yet ambitious: to make science open. We believe open science empowers the global scientific community to accelerate discovery and develop the solutions needed for healthy lives on a healthy planet.

We are one of the world's largest and most influential open-access research publishers. Every article we publish is peer-reviewed and quality-certified, ensuring research is accessible to everyone, everywhere. To date, Frontiers research has been viewed over 4 billion times, demonstrating the real-world impact of science without barriers.

Joining Frontiers means being part of a global, mission-driven organization at the intersection of science, technology, and innovation - working alongside passionate colleagues who care deeply about advancing knowledge for the benefit of society.

To learn more about our impact and culture, please watch this video

Benefits

• We prioritise office presence and emphasise in-person collaboration, but also offer appropriate adjustments where needed, in line with company policy
• Extra wellbeing days on top of your annual leave allowance
• Up to 3 paid volunteering days each year
• 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme (wellbeing, mental health, legal & financial support)
• Learning & development support via the Frontiers Learning Hub
• Competitive local benefits country dependent (e.g. healthcare and pension/retirement provision)