About Us

The King’s Centre for Lung Health is a newly funded Centre for Translational Medicine at King’s College London. Our mission is to ‘Inspire better breathing’. We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic member of the team as the Centre Manager; to lead in the delivery of the Centre’s short term aims and development of long term aims. The Centre focuses on scientific and research activity primed at prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of lung diseases. Members of the Centre include clinicians, scientists, researchers, and work across King’s Health Partners (Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital Foundation Trust (including the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital), King’s College Hospitals Foundation Trust and King’s College London).

The postholder will be based at the Guy’s Campus.

About the role

This is a new role, to support, manage and direct the King’s Centre for Lung Health. The postholder will drive a successful Centre, working with senior researchers in the day-to-day running of the Centre, driving the short-term and medium-term vision and developing the long-term vision. You will be expected to lead on external comms including maintenance of Websites, including but not limited to engagement with senior clinicians across the KHP partnership, Industry and UKRI funders. The manager will be critical to handling recruitment of staff within the Centre, supporting diaries of the Centre Directors and co-develop a financial sustainability plan (including managing funding of the Centre). You will also work closely with the Centre for Translational Medicine Patient, Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) teams, to support lung researchers in the successful funding, design and delivery of their research projects with PPIE. The Centre manager will also organise and support peer-review and submission of grant applications, with support of budget and financial delivery of projects.

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31 March 2027.

About You

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

Essential criteria

1. PhD qualified in biomedicine or relevant subject area
2. Experience/Evidence of managing and recruiting staff
3. Experience/Evidence of grant application submission
4. Experience/Evidence of budget handling
5. Excellent communication skills

Desirable criteria

1. Familiarity with medical research
2. Experience of working with patient and public engagement
3. Experience with setting up websites and/or dissemination of work

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.