About Us

The Centre for Research Staff Development (CRSD) provides professional development support for research staff to achieve their potential, before, during and after their time at King’s, with active support from the most senior staff in the university.

Research Staff at King’s are postdoctoral staff, research assistants, technicians and teaching fellows, in fact all those other than PhD students who are engaged in research and who do not yet have an independent, permanent academic or managerial position.

We maintain King’s commitment to the Concordat to Support the Career Development for Researchers, the European Commission's HR Excellence in Research Award and the Technician Commitment Initiative.

 
The CRSD also actively supports research staff networks that operate across King’s, both at faculty and divisional level and maintains two-way communication with research staff, ensuring that it provides key information about events, careers, funding, and training and that research staff have platforms to contribute their views and feedback.

About the Role

We are looking for a new member of our team who has a strong interest in professional development, and specifically in helping a diverse body of world leading researchers to grow and be the best they can be, in university spaces and beyond. If this is you, you will work in a small team within the  Centre for Research Staff Development, reporting to the Research Staff Development Consultant.  Within the CRSD, you will ensure all administration related to the team’s activity is handled efficiently. This includes the smooth running of the CRSD’s professional development training programme, liaising, and building strong relationships with external facilitators and expert trainers, handling the organisation of CRSD events in-person and online, and monitoring the team’s budget.  

You will also work outside the CRSD with colleagues across King’s, servicing the Research Staff Representative Committee and the CRSD Oversight Group and building relationships with other professional services colleagues in all faculties and departments concerned with research and researchers. Along with maintaining accuracy in all forms of administrative monitoring across the team, you will quickly build positive working relationships with the rest of the CRSD and ensure communication across the team remains strong, to provide the best possible support for our research staff at King’s.   

The post is offered part-time with the option of flexibility around hours to suit the needs of the postholder and the role by agreement.  As a department that delivers professional development we are fully committed to the professional development of our team. 

This is a part time post (21 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30/06/26.

About You

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

Essential criteria

1. Existing or demonstrable ability to develop strong administration skills for tasks including; accurately setting up course listings, zoom meetings, maintaining the related monitoring, and the smooth planning and execution of events/training courses. 
2. Excellent time management, with the ability to organise and plan effectively across competing priorities. 
3. Strong attention to detail with methodical, exacting standards of written and numerical accuracy. 
4. Demonstrable IT experience, especially across all Microsoft packages, including ability to use formulae in Excel.  
5. Basic awareness of the research environment within Higher Education.
6. Ability to set up and/or manage budget reconciliation, purchase orders, invoicing and procurement processes. 
7. Ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide variety of colleagues across a large and complicated institution and with external collaborators.  
8. Positive attitude towards providing a good service to others including a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.   

Desirable criteria

1. A flexible approach to working patterns, including hybrid working.   
2. Literacy with Skillsforge, Eventbrite and Online Surveys. 
3. Previous HE (Higher Education) or administrative experience. 

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.

Closing date for applications is 3 weeks after the advert goes live with interviews being held shortly after.

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