Research Coordinator
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater) (GB)
- Salary
- £27,994 inclusive of £3,223 per annum London Allowance.
- Closing date
- 2 Jun 2019
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- Job Type
- Professional Services, Administrative
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Applications are invited for a Research Coordinator to join the Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS) led by Professor Gunter Schumann. The post holder will assume responsibility for the administration of the PONS Centre and coordinate research activities, including of the IMAGEN, STRATIFY and cVEDA cohorts, as well as various global collaborations and projects. These responsibilities involve, but are not limited to, leading the administration of the team, project management, including coordination of collaborating centres, managing finances and assisting with grant applications.
The post holder will oversee research grants and will be responsible for the liaison with finance, pre- and post-award research grant offices as well as with external bodies such as collaborating institutions and funding agencies. The role involves management of budgets, such as regular monitoring and planning of expenditure and commitments as well as further financial operations to ensure the smooth running of the project administration. The candidate will also be responsible for planning and coordination of consortium and collaboration meetings, research and academic visits well as further organising joint activities within the PONS Centre.
The successful candidate needs to be confident in working with spreadsheets and web-based administrative and finance systems and be able to work on their own initiative and within the team. The ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of colleagues, with a commitment to providing a high standard of service, is essential. This role requires exceptional organisational skills, interpersonal skills, and the ability to pay attention to detail, while working across a number of tasks. The successful candidate will be an energetic and highly-motivated individual who will be able to encourage others within a team, while promoting the research and academic activities of the department. He/she will adopt a proactive approach in contributing and implementing strategic objectives of the Centre.
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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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