King's College London

About Us

Embedded within the Comprehensive Cancer Centre at King’s College London, PharosAI offers a unique cancer AI product development ecosystem for drug discovery and clinical applications, democratising access to data, AI assets, technologies, and capabilities. PharosAI unites large-scale multimodal cancer datasets with AI models through a highly secure, trusted, federated platform, offering state-of-the-art AI tooling for use by pharma/biotech/life-sciences, AI-pharma, and AI developers of clinical applications, in enterprises, growth companies, and research organisations.

You will be based in the Innovation Hub, Guy’s Cancer Centre, Guy’s Hospital, within the King’s Health Partners Cancer Biobank. The Biobank has been supporting translational cancer research at a national level since the 1970’s and accrued a significant number of samples during that time, all of which have been acquired under documented procedures and linked to verified clinical data. The Biobank has a team of more than 15 full time staff, including Advanced Practitioners, Consent Co-Ordinator, Quality Manager and Specialist Technicians.

 About The Role

The Outreach Officer is a member of the PharosAI team supporting Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) activities and co-ordinating the Cancer Biobank consent volunteers. 

The post holder supports the development and organisation of PPIE communications and events that inform and seek opinion about PharosAI and associated projects. Events will be held both within the PharosAI founding partner establishments or the local community, occasionally taking place during the evening or at the weekend. The ability to communicate clearly and effectively is an essential part of this role. 

The post holder is responsible for co-ordinating and timetabling the team of Cancer Biobank consent volunteers, to ensure they know which clinic to attend and patients to approach or contact remotely. From time-to-time, the post holder may need to fill-in for volunteers and consent patients either face-to-face or over the telephone. The post holder will also provide operational support to the Cancer Biobank in support of PharosAI, such as uploading documents onto patient record systems, taking meeting notes/minutes and other tasks that support the mission of the Biobank and PharosAI.

Guidance on processes and expectations will be provided, and the post holder will work with members of both the PharosAI team and Cancer Biobank to improve procedures This is a full time (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31/03/2027

About You

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

Essential criteria

1. Minimum level 3 qualification (e.g. A levels, AS levels, International Baccalaureate diploma or other level 3 qualification) plus work experience in a relevant post or knowledge and skills gained through work experience in a relevant post.
2. Experience in operational roles, following defined processes and a systematic/methodical approach to get tasks done.
3. Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing, and interpersonal skills
4. Excellent numeracy skills and the ability to manipulate and present data in an accessible format which will inform decision making.
5. Have a proactive and responsive approach to internal and external contacts to build relationships.
6. Experience of working collaboratively as part of a team.
7. Able and willing to provide support beyond core hours, as required.

Desirable criteria

1. Previous experience with PPIE/outreach groups. 
2. Team management skills 
3. Experience of working in higher education, health or research and/or highly regulated context. 
4. Experience of delivering training to others 
5. Commitment to personal professional development with evidence of the ability to use learning in the workplace

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.

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