Resident Engagement Officer
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater) (GB)
- Salary
- £35,502 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
- Closing date
- 26 Mar 2023
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- Job Type
- Professional Services, Estates & Facilities / Facilities Management
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Job description
This is an exciting opportunity to join King’s College Residences to guide and inspire a staff/student team to positively impact and engage the student community. With a key focus upon interaction with residents on all platforms, and a strong drive to continue and continuously develop our digital engagement, the role will drive the Resi-Life programme by planning, budgeting and delivering key termly events and overseeing the site events, and evidence growth in residential engagement. Ownership will be required of our 3 pillars of the programme, Resilife, Sustainable Living Community, and the GradPlus programme. The successful candidate will need to have previous experience in a similar role, be a team player, be creative and enthusiastic about making a positive difference to our student’s time in residence.
This post will be offered on a full-time, indefinite contract.
Key responsibilities
- Lead and inspire a staff/student team to engage and positively impact our residents time at King’s
- Consistently explore ways to improve the programme increase our reach and engagement
- To act as a lead and an example of student engagement, on-line and face to face
- Be responsible and accountable for the Reslife programme including all events management, budgeting and recruitment.
- To work in collaboration with the Resident Experience Team to provide the best community experience
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. Educated to degree level and/or relevant experience
2. Knowledge of the Higher Education and a role in a similar position
3. Ability to plan, implement and evaluate activities designed to meet the needs of young adults
4. Ability to use own initiative, generate new ideas and creating projects from inception to delivery
5. Ability to manage a part-time, dispersed paraprofessional team
6. Ability to build and maintain strong, positive relationships
7. Ability to management and event operations and execution, including budget management and the recruitment and scheduling of casual staff and volunteers
8. Knowledge of current events and issues affecting young adults and students
9. Creativity and a passion to make a positive impact upon or resident community
10. Drive, resilience and attention to detail.
Desirable criteria
1. Digital marketing and communication experience
2. Presentation, facilitator experience
3. Experience in managing data, statistics, Power B
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service Clearance.
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
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