Senior Project Officer

About the Department

The King’s community is dedicated to the service of society. King’s Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.

King’s Careers & Employability (KC&E) are part of the wider Students & Education Directorate, a collection of wide-ranging professional services in place to support King’s students and their education. As a directorate we manage the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond, to ensure a coherent and seamless student experience and effective administrative processes, working closely with King’s faculties to do so.

The Student Careers Engagement (SCE) Team in the department supports students at all levels across the institution, as well as alumni, to access information, advice, events, opportunities, and e-learning, to aid them in their career journeys. As a team, we work specifically to address the sector-wide and institutional factors and barriers that contribute to differences in progression amongst students from underrepresented backgrounds.

About the Role

The Senior Project Officer will be responsible for the management of all co-curricular learning schemes as part of the King’s Experience portfolio and extra-curricular opportunities under the newly launched

King’s Edge project

.

These include

awards programmes

, opportunity funds,

Research Fellowships

, and extra-curricular opportunities. The role holder will work closely with the King’s Edge Project Manager and Project Officer to ensure all projects and programmes are delivered on time and to budget; and to oversee the day-to-day operational and administrative activities that underpin the project work. The role holder will also be expected to work closely with other members of the team to ensure communications and attraction activities for projects and programmes are done in line with priority needs and gaps identified and done with the student voice in mind.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to manage multiple projects, and who wish to utilise their skills and expertise in project management. This is an opportunity to grow your skills in student engagement.

We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role.

This post will be offered on permanent basis.

This is a full-time post, but we welcome applications from candidates seeking a flexible work pattern within our necessary service operating hours.

• Respond appropriately to enquiries relating to co-curricular learning schemes and extra-curricular opportunities, from students, academics and assessors.
• Work flexibly and collaboratively with colleagues throughout the University to identify potential areas for collaboration & recruitment of applicants, academic assessors and supervisors.
• Organise and run events in collaboration with colleagues.
• Coordinate the preparation, submission and marking of coursework, and ensure related administration is carried out and communicated effectively.
• Ensure administrative processes are developed and implemented, documented and reviewed, in line with departmental practices.
• Gather, interpret and present analysis of uptake and success rates in the Careers & Employability King’s Experience portfolio in order to support forward planning and reflective evaluation.
• Proactively engage with industry best practice and sector trends, taking an enthusiastic role in relevant professional networks (The Careers Group, AGCAS, ISE and international equivalents) to inform delivery.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Please clearly address how you meet the
essential criteria in your application, and where possible how you meet the
desirable criteria as well.

Essential criteria  

1.       Relevant work experience and/or education: We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in another university or organisation. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training 

2.       Experience in collaborating well with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, showing diplomacy and tact 

3.       Proactive with the ability to work independently as well as delivering within a team  

4.       Ability to work under pressure to complete a range of competing priorities, and requesting and utilising support as and when required 

5.       Methodical, detail oriented and flexible in an approach to work, maintaining a high level of accuracy 

6.       Excellent time management and organisational skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines 

7.       Ability to communicate with all students and staff with excellent written/verbal skills and attention to detail, capable of synthesising complex information in a way that is accessible for a variety of audiences 

8.       Ability to gather and manipulate data so that it can be interpreted by yourself and others  

Desirable criteria

1.       Knowledge of the Higher Education sector 

2.   Effective knowledge of key programmes in the Microsoft Office suite (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams) 

3.   Ability to oversee budgets and undertaking financial administration  

 Please submit a personal statement when applying for this vacancy, clearly setting out how you meet the essential criteria, as this is how we shortlist applications. Learn more about how we recruit, including tips on writing your application and supporting statement on our website:  

https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/applying

Interviews will be held using Microsoft Teams and will consist of competency-based questions linked closely to the essential and desirable criteria mentioned here. 

Although we have made improvements over the last number of years, our team is still under-represented in terms of staff from global majority ethnicities, LGBTQ+ identities, and from people with disabilities. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries, and are committed to employing a team that has diverse skills, experiences and abilities.