Facility Manager
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Salary
- £52,874 - £61,921 per annum, including London Weighting Allowanc
- Closing date
- 13 Nov 2024
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- Job Type
- Research Related, Other Research Related, Research Manager
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
About Us
We have an exciting opportunity for a Facility Manager in the NMR Facility at King’s College London. The NMR Facility forms part of the Centre for Biomolecular Spectroscopy on Guy's Hospital Campus of King's College London. Supported by the Wellcome Trust and the British Heart Foundation, the current facility includes a Bruker 800 MHz three-channel instrument equipped with cryoprobe, a Bruker 700 MHz four-channel instrument equipped with cryoprobe and sample changer, a new Bruker 600 MHz with triple resonance prodigy probe, HR-MAS probe and sample changer, and a Bruker 400 MHz equipped with MAS.
The Facility supports a large and vibrant research community at King’s providing state-of-the-art facilities for researchers across the College.
About the Role
Reporting to Associate Director, Core Facilities, and working closely with the Academic Director, the post holder will be responsible for all aspects of the operational management of the facility, including financial oversight, people management, reporting, health and safety, equipment maintenance and business development.
The successful applicant will be expected to deliver an excellent service to facility users, providing expert guidance in experimental design, implementation, data collection and analysis. They will be responsible for the management, support and future development of the NMR Facility, ensuring that it continues to support the needs of our researchers. This role provides opportunities to contribute actively to research both individually and in collaboration with academic staff.
The role would suit 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 is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered 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
- PhD qualified in relevant subject area, or equivalent experience.
- Relevant experience and track record in Biological NMR and/or Structural Biology, including data collection and analysis for complex multidimensional NMR experiments.
- Familiarity with NMR spectrometer hardware and electronics. Good command-line, shell scripting, and/or programming, software development skills, proficiency using TopSpin and/or software for biomolecular NMR data analysis (e.g. CCPNMR).)
- Experience of some elements of facility management, for example - dealing with day-to-day operations in a similar facility, staff supervision, procurement or financial processes.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex findings verbally and to write scientific reports to a high standard.
- A good knowledge of health and safety procedures and its implementation in the workplace.
- Ability to deal and interact positively with a wide range of people to develop working relationships with team members, academics and clinical and administrative staff.
- Ability to analyse and prioritise tasks, work under pressure, and against deadlines.
Desirable criteria
- People management/line management experience
- Experience of use of NMR for chemistry, small molecules and/or metabolomics application
- Experience supervising and teaching researchers
- Budget management experience
- Knowledge of HE institutions and how funding is obtained
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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- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
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