People

Vanessa Potter

Director of Communications and External Relations
CER - Central Team
 Vanessa Potter

Profile

Ask me about
  • Undergraduate and Postgraduate admissions
  • Corporate marketing and brand management
  • Student and staff communications
  • Arts and outreach activities
  • External communications and public relations
  • UG and PG recruitment (Home, EU and international students)
  • Web editing and digital media
  • Advancement (alumni engagement and fundraising)
  • Our global regional offices
  • Stakeholder engagement and thought leadership
  • Agent services

Biography

Vanessa provides the strategic direction, planning and leadership for the Communications and External Relations section, and activity covered by Communications and External Relations (CER) more widely for the whole University. Before joining Essex she worked in communications and marketing, policy and strategy roles in Lottery funding, local and central government and for the National Union of Students. She is married with a son.

Qualifications

  • MA Industrial Relations University of Warwick (1992)

  • BA Politics University of Warwick (1990)

Contact

vpotter@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1206 873582

Location:

5S.7.3, Colchester Campus

Working pattern:

Full time (but with regular travel)