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Business Operations Officer

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
Denmark Hill Campus, Guy's Campus
Salary
£33,879 - £37,296 (including London Weighting Allowance)
Closing date
18 Feb 2025
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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. The Strategic Vision 2029 looks forward to King’s College London’s 200th anniversary in 2029 and sets out ambitious plans in five key areas:

- Educating the next generation of change-makers

- Challenging ideas and driving change through research

- Giving back to society through meaningful service

- Working with our local communities in London

- Fostering global citizens with an international perspective

The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) is a Faculty of King's College London and the largest academic community in Europe devoted to the study and prevention of mental illness and brain disease.

The School of Neuroscience is UK’s 2nd largest Neuroscience school with over 500 researchers and 200 PhD students. It is one of three schools at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. We are ranked 4th in the world for the total number of publications in neuroscience, 4th for the number of publication outputs in top 5% citations in neuroscience, and 4th for top 5% citations in neurology.

Our academic and research staff are integral to our school. Their work is supported by a group of Professional Services staff members within the departments as well as at the school level. We support staff members requiring flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments. Upon consultation at the points of recruitment and onboarding, we will strive to provide the best adjustments for you.

We strongly encourage our staff to dedicate time to their professional development through training courses and participation in working groups and networks. We also encourage our staff to seek mentoring outside their direct line management. Mentoring, both via formal and informal arrangements, allows individuals to fully explore their career situation and development. Our weekly school circular regularly captures and promotes opportunities open to all staff.

About the role:

The School of Neuroscience is looking for two highly organised and detail-oriented Business Operations Officers to provide professional support to the departments and Co-Heads/Heads of Department (HoDs) at the School. Two posts are available: one post will be supporting two departments based on the Guy’s Campus and the other post will be supporting two departments based on the Denmark Hill Campus.

The post holder will be expected to liaise closely with the HoDs offering dedicated administrative support as required, as well as providing local support to some selected Principal Investigators (PIs) and to the wider department. The post holder will be expected to undertake activities including diary management, dealing efficiently with communications and correspondence in a timely manner, acting as secretary for departmental meetings, coordinating arrangements for external visitors to the department, travel management, budget and financial tracking, and any other department-level duties as required by the HoDs. They will liaise with a range of people at all levels across King’s depending on the nature of the task and will build and maintain effective working relationships locally with their fellow department members and across the School’s Professional Services clusters.

The role is critical to maintaining smooth day-to-day operations in each of the two departments whilst also providing dedicated support to the HoDs. The ideal candidate would be someone who is attentive, can work independently, is proactive in delivering tasks, responds well to different styles of leadership, and who can effectively manage competing priorities. In addition, excellent written and spoken English is essential as well as a proven ability to maintain confidentiality and handle situations sensitively.

The post holder is expected to be on campus at least 4 days a week (ideally 5) and will need to work across two separate buildings on the same campus. We anticipate that this role will have a 50:50 split between the two departments, although this may change from week to week.

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

*Please state in your application which campus (or both) you are applying to work at: Denmark Hill and/or Guy’s Campus.

About you:

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

Essential criteria

1. Experience in providing high level administrative and/or personal support to a senior executive, ideally within a research or academic environment.

2. Experience of complex and multiple diary management.

3. Strong organisational skills and the ability to multitask, manage competing priorities and meet multiple deadlines.

4. Excellent communication skills, including excellent spoken and written English, particularly in formal documents, letters, emails and other communications.

5. Proactive in the delivery and completion of tasks and the willingness to work flexibly and adapt to different leadership styles.

6. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and experience of other office management software or tools.

7. Experience of event coordination and handling logistics for professional meetings, external visits, and workshops.

8. Experience of financial tracking and a good understanding of expense and reimbursement monitoring and reporting.

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of working in the higher education sector and familiarity with HE administration.

2. Working knowledge and experience of King’s systems such as Business World and HR Digital Services.

3. Proven commitment to ongoing skills development.

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 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.

Interviews are due to be held in early March.

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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