King's College London

About us

This role is located within the REF, KEF and Research Impact team. We use our expertise to support research impact across all nine of King's faculties, and to deliver the processes that demonstrate to research funders and wider society the university's excellence in research and knowledge exchange. 

The team is part of the Research Strategy & Performance Unit within the Research Management & Innovation Directorate (RMID). RMID enables world-class research at King’s by providing grant support, platforms and services that accelerate the work of King’s researchers.

About the role

The REF Senior Officer will provide Professional Services support for a wide range of activities covering the planning and delivery of King’s submission to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029. In doing so they will support the REF Manager and the Director of REF, KEF and Research Impact and will work closely with the wider team and academic leaders. They will have a specific responsibility for overseeing output evaluation across Units of Assessment, supporting the submission of output reviews to Pure,  monitoring open access compliance and EDI considerations and undertaking data modelling, with the REF Manager, to optimise King’s REF submission.

The REF Senior Officer will provide secretariat and operational support to the committees and groups that comprise King’s REF governance structures, ensuring that information flows between them and that actions are completed effectively. They will also assist with communications and training to ensure that REF is well understood across the university. 

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31 December 2028. 

The opportunity is available to work in a hybrid way, with an expectation of a minimum of five days per month on campus but attending campus as and when required to perform the role effectively

About you

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

Essential criteria

1.  Educated to degree level, or comparable work experience.

2.  Demonstrable administrative experience within the higher education sector and/or in a large and complex organisation. 

3.  Excellent analytical and research skills, with ability to analyse and interpret complex information and present in an easily comprehensible way for a range of audiences, including senior leaders. 

4.  Ability to plan and lead projects and workstreams, liaising effectively with colleagues at all levels of seniority and across faculties and directorates to solve problems and deliver tasks. 

5.  Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to develop and manage positive stakeholder relationships and influence others.

6.  Highly organised, able to work autonomously to organise and prioritise a varied workload.

7.  Excellent IT skills, including databases, spreadsheets and Word programmes. 

8.  Experience of supporting meetings, including logistics, note-taking and progressing actions.

Desirable criteria

1.  Experience of the Research Excellence Framework and of research assessment. 

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. 

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities. 

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 on TBC.