Senior Programme Manager
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater) (GB)
- Salary
- Grade 7, £46,293 to £54,534 per annum inclusive of £3,500 London Weighting Allowance
- Closing date
- 10 Nov 2019
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- Academic Discipline
- Business & Economics
- Job Type
- Professional Services, Other Professional Services
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
King’s Business School (KBS) is the ninth and newest faculty at King’s College London and it is committed to reimagining the business school curriculum. A full-service school, on a growth trajectory towards 2,500 students and 150 faculty, KBS seeks to provide an exceptional student experience across each programme. Located in the heart of London and drawing on the world-class, multi-disciplinary strengths of King’s, KBS provides an environment where innovation and academic excellence go hand in hand.
The Senior Programme Manager (SPM) is a vital role in the Professional Services team at KBS, leading a large programme team delivering an array of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including two distance learning programmes and a growing Executive Education service. This is an exciting phase of development and expansion for the Business School and the SPM will need to guide and support the team through a period of change. Strong management experience and confident and inspiring leadership are traits which will help the candidate succeed in the role.
King’s Business School has ambitions to become one of the top business schools in the UK. The SPM will play a key role in realising this ambition, contributing to the development and delivery of the KBS education strategy as well as supporting the wider university strategy and vision. The SPM will need to bring a mindset of continuous improvement and an ability to analyse, create and implement processes and systems to deliver an excellent service.
Reporting to the Faculty Education Manager, the SPM will need to establish excellent working relationships with key stakeholders at all levels in the university, including academics and administrative colleagues in the Business School, colleagues in other departments and those in the central teams.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an ambitious, entrepreneurial and high-performing School and help to take it to the next level.
This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.
This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent
The selection process will include a panel interview and a presentation.
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King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.
King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.
King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.
King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.
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- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Telephone
- +(44)02078365454
- Location
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