King's College London

About Us

At King’s, we continuously strive to be an inclusive, culturally aware and culturally competent organisation that respects the differences of our community by providing an environment that both acknowledges and celebrates diversity and embraces inclusion. The recently awarded MRC/BHF Centre of Research Excellence in Advanced Cardiac Therapies (REACT) is a new Centre funded across King’s College London and the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford and focussed on the development of nucleic acid-based therapies to achieve repair of cardiac damage and regeneration of cardiovascular tissue. 

We are committed to being leaders in research culture and developing an inclusive positive culture for our staff and students.

About The Role

This is a new role within the Centre working across the virtual Centre and King’s, Edinburgh and Oxford, and with Research Culture colleagues from all institutions. If successful, you will support the Centre in achieving its strategic goal to become a beacon of best practice for research culture, through a programme of initiatives and culture change to ensure all staff and students feel included. 

Specifically, the project focuses on capitalising on existing good practice and resources across the partner institutions and developing new activities that support and embed this provision consistently across our Centre. 

Working with the Centre’s Chief Operating Officer, Research Culture and EDI Lead, Public Engagement Co-ordinator and the leadership team, you will be responsible for implementing a programme of research culture activities across the Centre focusing on improving career development for research staff and students and building an inclusive environment. As Research Culture Manager, you will create clear ownership, expertise and accountability for delivery of initiatives and improvements to research culture. 

You will also work with local and central Research Culture teams within the three universities to ensure the Centre’s initiatives are communicated and embedded across the Centre and that examples of best practice are shared across the universities. 

It is an exciting time to join the team as we work towards establishing an open, positive, and inclusive research culture within REACT and across our universities. This role is a great opportunity if you are an energetic, enthusiastic, and collaborative worker interested in expanding your knowledge around research culture and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in Higher Education. 

We particularly welcome applications from you if you identify as being from a racialised or ethnic minority or have a disability; these characteristics are currently under-represented in our team. 

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 3 years and 11 months. Interviews for this post will be held on 11th & 12th June 2025.

About You

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

Essential criteria

1. Awareness and understanding of research culture; 
2. Experience of developing and supporting innovative solutions and practical implementation for strategic change and staff development; 
3. Experience of working collaboratively within a team and across multiple organisations and strong interpersonal and engagement skills, with the ability to work with a broad range of stakeholders in a professional and collegiate manner; 
4. Excellent project management skills for managing a complex programme and ability to work under pressure in a busy environment with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail; 
5. Strong skills in planning and facilitating workshops, events and working groups; 
6. Experience gathering, analysing, and interpreting quantitative and/or qualitative data, undertake desktop research and report writing; 
7. Strong written and oral communication skills including the ability to clearly explain specialist matters and influence others’ thinking; 
8. Highly proficient IT skills (including Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and experience of utilising advanced digital technology in day-to-day work.

Desirable criteria

1. Experience working in Higher Education (HE) and/or health sector;
2. Good understanding and experience of equality, diversity and inclusion, organisational development and research careers within Higher Education.

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.