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International Regulations Manager

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£52,874 – 61,921 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
18 Nov 2024
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About us

King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. The university is dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place.

 

This role is part of the Research Governance, Ethics, Integrity & Culture team that sits within the Research Management and Innovation Directorate at King’s. The team is committed to providing comprehensive professional service support to enable the good and proper conduct of research and researchers. Supporting the King’s research community to ensure that all research conducted is safe, lawful, and of the highest standards of integrity and rigour.

 

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity available to join Research Management and Innovation at King’s College London, as International Regulations Manager. This is a diverse and interesting role, working across the institution, with academics from all disciplines and other professional services teams, and with colleagues across the sector.

 

International collaboration forms a major part of King’s College London’s research portfolio and we need to ensure that such activity is carried out to the highest standard of integrity and in compliance with relevant legislation such as the Export Control Act 2002 and the National Security and Investment Act 2021. The post holder will work with researchers and professional services staff to identify, mitigate and manage the risks associated with international collaboration including reputational, operational, regulatory, and security-related, managing systems and policies for assurance and compliance in relation to relevant UK and international policy.

 

As the institutional lead on export control, the post holder will require expert knowledge of UK export control regulations, managing the licence application process and supporting key departments in identifying and mitigating associated risks. Additionally, the post holder will contribute to Trusted research policies and implementation towards meeting the NPSA trusted research requirement. The post holder will have significant experience in developing and managing policy and procedure and networking with key stakeholders at a senior level, both within the research community and in professional services.

 

The university currently has a hybrid working model. When in the office the post will be based at our Lavington Street campus. There are currently no line management responsibilities attached to this post.

 
This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered on an indefinite contract.

About you

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

 

Essential criteria

  1. Professionally qualified with a relevant degree/postgraduate qualification, plus a broad management experience in similar or related roles; Or substantial vocational and relevant management experience demonstrating management ability in an appropriate professional or specialist area, and success in similar or related roles, supported by evidence of significant appropriate specialist knowledge.
  2. Strong knowledge of the risks associated with international research collaboration.
  3. The ability to solve complex problems.
  4. Demonstrable experience of influencing at a senior level both internally and externally.
  5. Experience of developing and implementing training and training materials and to deliver engaging and informative sessions.
  6. Demonstrable excellent communication and networking skills.
  7. Ability to demonstrate professionalism and command respect with academic and non-academic staff at all levels.
  8. A proven track record of understanding and applying complex legislation or policy

Desirable criteria

  1. Legal experience.
  2. Direct research experience of managing international collaborations.
  3. Experience of UK Export Control Regulations, including the license application process.
  4. Experience of the development and implementation of policies, processes and systems to support matters of compliance.

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 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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