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Partnerships Manager Funding & Impact

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£40,967per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
21 Nov 2021

Job Details

Job description

This is a strategic and cross-cutting role that will support the delivery of King’s internationalisation strategy and global engagement (GE) objectives.  

The post holder will engage with a diverse portfolio of international partners, King’s academics and professional services colleagues to manage GE’s funding calls, strategic initiatives with international partners, compile and analyse data, provide strategic guidance on the assessment and impact of initiatives, including developing indicators and databases to support the delivery of key initiatives. Working closely with GE’s regional Partnerships Managers, the post holder will have a strategic portfolio overview and input on outcomes of international engagement to input into King’s strategic international priorities. The post holder will maintain and update King’s international collaboration dashboard and develop metrics and produce strategic reports on activities and initiatives of Global Engagement, contributing with intelligence on the partnership portfolio to support the development of impactful institutional international partnerships. The postholder will also work closely with King’s UK engagement team to ensure that impact is maximised across all activities and stakeholders (academic, industry, NGOs and others). 

S/he will also seek opportunities and provide intelligence on regions and institutions, including briefings and other supporting documentation, informing, consulting & collaborating with relevant external and internal stakeholders.  

The postholder will also contribute to the development of specific partnerships and strategic initiatives. 

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract 

This is a full-time post

Key responsibilities

•        Manage the Global Engagement dashboard of international collaborations   

•        Partnership development, monitoring and evaluation: To manage joint funding calls with international partners, manage the calls, panel and reporting of the King’s Partnership Fund, liaise with academic and professional services colleagues across the College to monitor and assess the impact of activities related to partnerships, project proposals and business plans; provide strategic evaluation about initiatives and funding, including working closely with King’s Communications team, the production of reports and case studies, institutional publications, and recommendations about initiatives 

•        International strategy projects: Undertake analysis, in collaboration with the line manager and senior university management, problem-solving on university policies and practices and related to international strategy topics, and take a role in drafting resulting reports 

•        Impact analysis: conduct analysis and produce reports on the impact of King’s international partnerships, both in education and research 

•        Conduct research: ‘Horizon scanning’ – into issues affecting international education. In liaison with the Marketing Department, conducting independent research, recording, prioritising and disseminating information from sources both internal and external to King’s College London, for the purpose of promoting the internationalisation agenda within the College 

•        High-level delegations: Support high-level incoming and outgoing delegation visits, preparing briefings and coordinating logistics with the Office Administrator 

•        Profile Raising: Contribute to improve the impact, visibility and international profile of King’s, working with King’s Communications team to compile case studies, data and profiles of King’s engagement globally, and contribute to the production of all relevant materials supporting the Vice Principal Global Engagement 

•        Strategic development: Contribute to periodic reviews of priorities for the Global Engagement team 

•        To build and manage relationships and cooperation between departments, Schools, the Marketing Department and other Directorates and services concerned with internationalization 

•        To provide support and guidance for the Vice Deans International and advise faculty on regional and internal funding opportunities 

•        In liaison with Study Abroad, International Marketing and others, keeping track of international partnerships activity and contributing data to the international partnerships database 

•        To project-manage identified initiatives and outreach programmes or events 

•        To assist in financial and statistical reporting 

•        Day-to-day management of temporary staff if required 

 

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.  

Skills, knowledge, and experience 

Essential criteria  

1.      Degree qualification 

2.      Experience working with data and impact analysis 

3.      Experience producing analytical and strategic reports 

4.      Experience in managing international portfolios 

5.      Excellent written and spoken English with clear and concise communication skills 

6.      Experience working in higher education 

7.      Experience in project management 

8.      Proactive, self-organised, capable of meeting tight deadlines and responding to new priorities in a flexible manner 

9.      Good strategic thinking and excellent attention to detail 

10.  Good team player and experience in creating and maintaining good internal and external networks 

Desirable criteria

11.  Experience with Microsoft PowerBI or other analytical tools 

12.  Experience using SciVal and other databases  

13.  Experience in finance processes

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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