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Nikon Imaging Centre Deputy Manager

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£ 44,105 - £ 51,485 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
31 Oct 2024
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About us

We have an exciting vacancy in the Nikon Imaging Centre (NIC) at King’s College London for the role of Deputy Manager on a 12-month, fixed term contract.

The NIC is a core facility for light microscopy, developed and operated as a partnership between King’s College London and Nikon Instruments UK. This partnership allows us to offer the latest state-of-the-art light microscopy and imaging to the research community and the Centre, based at King’s College London, Guy’s Campus serves as a learning platform for our regional corporate partners and contributors.

Our mission is to promote innovation across a broad range of biological research fields by providing access to cutting edge microscopy and imaging equipment as well as develop new microscope setups and imaging techniques in response to feedback from the users of Centre.

About the role

The purpose of the role is to support in the operations and maintenance of the Centre. This will include providing guidance in experimental design and implementation, in addition to expert training/support to new and existing facility users. The role holder will support with equipment maintenance and troubleshooting, contribute to the running of the tissue culture room and assist the Manager in providing quotes to users applying for funding to use the Centre.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a busy, multi-user imaging facility, supporting cutting-edge research. The role would suite an organised, detail orientated individual who can manage their own workload and problem solve effectively. Excellent communication skills and strong interpersonal skills are essential.


This role offers opportunities for development and growth and the Centre is committed to supporting staff to reach their career aspirations.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria 

  1. Undergraduate degree in life sciences or physical sciences or equivalent experience.
  2. Experience of microscopy/imaging in a research environment.
  3. Strong communication skills and experience presenting information and communicating to groups. 
  4. Excellent interpersonal, influencing and relationship management skills. 
  5. Excellent planning & organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
  6. Knowledge of COSHH and implementing Health and Safety standards and protocols in a research setting.
  7. Good technical understanding of imaging equipment and ability to apply learnt techniques/skills to the work context, including a broad understanding of effective approaches to train microscope users in imaging methodologies and techniques.
  8. Detailed and focused approach, ability to record and manage data accurately, and in accordance with GDPR and legislation requirements. 

Desirable criteria

  1. PhD in life sciences or physical sciences.
  2. Experience providing training and workshops.
  3. Experience in image analysis and processing.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the 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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