Executive Assistant to the Head of School
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- Guy's Campus, London
- Salary
- Grade 5, £32,676 - £37,297 per annum inclusive of £3,500 London Weighting Allowance per annum
- Closing date
- 11 Feb 2020
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- Academic Discipline
- Biological Sciences, Life sciences
- Job Type
- Professional Services, Administrative
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
The School of Population Health and Environmental Sciences (www.kcl.ac.uk/sphes) is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Executive Assistant to provide high-level professional executive support to the Head of School.
The post holder will be responsible for the effective and efficient day-to-day management and organisation of the Head of School’s activities and business. This will include acting as the main point of contact for the Head of School both internally and externally, complex diary management, organising and supporting high-level senior meetings (including acting as Secretary to the School Executive Board), report and presentation writing, and providing project management support to on-going activities.
The post holder will have a proactive approach and possess exceptional organisational, prioritisation and communication skills with the ability to use their own initiative to prioritise and manage complex tasks and diary arrangements. The post holder will be confident in working independently and with ambiguity, as well as being a strong team player. Strong analytical and numerical skills would also be advantageous.
Proven experience in a similar role, preferably providing support to a senior executive / Head of Department/ Director level, would be highly desirable.
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 an assessment
Company
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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