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Research Officer

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£32,676-£37,297 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
30 Nov 2020

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Job Type
Professional Services
Contract Type
Fixed Term
Hours
Full Time

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Job description

The Research Officer will work on TASO’s research programme to develop a better understanding of what works to support widening participation and student success. Under the guidance of the Research Programmes Manager and Evidence & Evaluation Manager, the post holder will help support the commissioning of new projects as part of a programme of external research involving practitioners, evaluators and researchers from multiple institutions. They will work across these projects to manage and monitor progress, collate findings, analyse data and help steer the overall research programme.  They may also undertake research projects themselves, including synthesis of secondary research; conducting qualitative, quantitative and/or survey research.

The Research Officer will work with the Research Programmes Manager and Evidence & Evaluation Manager to create high-quality external-facing materials which convey the findings of TASO’s research. The role will involve substantial stakeholder management, liaison with various interested parties outside TASO, convening of stakeholder groups and supporting training sessions.  The Programmes Officer will have strong communication skills and be able to convey their findings, including complex quantitative information, clearly and will support TASO to influence broader policy discussion.  They will work both independently and—on more complex tasks—under supervision.

TASO is a new affiliate What Works Centre for higher education which launched in Spring 2019. The successful candidate will join a growing team of staff who are taking TASO forward as it spins out of King’s College London to become an independent charity in late 2020/early 2021. This team is building many of the charity’s systems and processes from the ground-up. The role is suited to an individual who is used to working in a small team and who is highly motivated by social impact.

Key responsibilities

•      Provide support to the Research Programmes Manager and Evidence & Evaluation Manager in commissioning of external research and evaluation.

•      Oversee funded projects, ensuring delivery to timelines, value for money for TASO, and timely and proactive risk assessment and mitigation.

•      Help design, run and analyse the results of research projects in collaboration with multiple external organisations. This will include quantitative and qualitative research.

•      Contribute to the administration and secretariat for a number of advisory panels formed of external stakeholders.

•      Contribute to the delivery of external training courses and events to disseminate the work of TASO’s research programme and help upskill the sector in research skills.

•      Work with the Research Programmes Manager and Evidence & Evaluation Manager to develop TASO’s relationships with key stakeholders in the HE sector.

•      Conduct desk-based research, reviewing existing literature and collate examples of sector good practice.

•      Develop/maintain knowledge of cutting-edge research and evaluation which is relevant to TASO’s work. Use this knowledge to contribute to the delivery of blog posts, literature reviews and research briefings, working with the Research Programmes Manager and Evidence & Evaluation Manager.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Contact: Eliza Kozman:  eliza.kozman@kcl.ac.uk

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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