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Programme Officer

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£29,127 to £32,256 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
26 May 2022

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Job description

The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience’s Education Support Team is looking for a Programme Officer to offer high-quality administrative support to taught programmes within the School of   Neuroscience.  

The Programme Officer provides essential support to students and academics within this school, and will work as a member of the wider programme administration team to ensure consistent management and delivery of taught provision through providing high quality administrative support. The Programme Officer provides a professional, supportive, responsive and personable service supporting processes across the student lifecycle, ensuring accurate and timely record management across multiple systems.

 

Comfortable with working relatively autonomously and flexible to change, this role will suit a motivated individual who is keen to take the next step in their career. 

 

Benefits  

King’s provides an extensive and varied range of career-focussed training and on-the-job learning. We support staff to maintain a work/life balance, offer flexible working and parental leave opportunities, reduced membership rates for staff at gyms at three of our campuses, an Employee Assistance Programme which provides free, confidential advice on both home and work concerns as well as 27 days annual leave (plus Christmas closure days), an occupational pension scheme, season ticket loans and being part of the cycle to work scheme. Find out more at -   www.kcl.ac.uk/hr/staffbenefits/index  

 

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract. 

This is a full-time post

 

Key responsibilities

  • Take responsibility for resolving students’ and academics’ enquiries, including face-to-face and via email, responding within agreed timeframes and escalating complex enquiries as appropriate.  
  • Assist in ensuring that quality assurance requirements and, where required, accreditation requirements are met for relevant programmes. Support student, module and programme evaluation processes in line with current university best practice
  • Support assessment processes in line with university deadlines and regulations and faculty and external requirements
  • Servicing committees as directed by your line manager
  • Actively participate in the development and improvement of programmes and processes to support students and academic staff through identifying and suggesting improvements based on user feedback
  • Work flexibly as part of a team, supporting others in times of high-volume activity, providing cover and supporting the training and development of new staff members
  • Take responsibility for own performance and development, through agreeing clear performance objectives, maintaining up-to-date knowledge and reflecting on own performance
  • Take personal accountability for the data quality of student records, ensuring records are accurately maintained in accordance with the agreed retention schedules
  • Ensure all work is carried out in a professional and timely manner, with appropriate confidentiality and sensitivity. Maintain an up to date knowledge of the data protection requirements and to support Freedom of information and subject access requests

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. Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to draft documents and correspondence
  2. Excellent organisation and time management skills
  3. Strong numeracy skills and ability to analyse complex numerical data
  4. Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages and the ability to work on new systems
  5. Methodical, detail oriented and flexible in approach to work, maintaining a high level of accuracy
  6. Ability to work with a broad range of stakeholders in a professional and assured manner
  7. Proactive with the ability to work independently as well as delivering within a team 
  8. Curious, customer service oriented, with a commitment to personal accountability and continuous improvement 
  9. Comfortable with adapting to change, driving own professional development 
  10. Commitment to equality and diversity in the workplace 

Desirable criteria 

  1. Degree level or equivalent qualification or experience
  2. Experience in the use of databases, student records systems (such as SITS) and website content management systems
  3. Prior experience of working in a customer facing environment
  4. Experience of using virtual learning environments

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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