King's College London

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About us

As King’s College London’s specialist institute for knowledge exchange with the creative & cultural industries, King’s Culture brokers, develops and delivers a portfolio of distinctive partnerships and activities that support university ambitions.

About the role

King’s Culture is seeking a highly organised and proactive Programme Producer to support the planning, production, and delivery of a diverse range of exhibitions, events, and creative projects across the university. Working collaboratively across the King’s Culture team and academic faculties, the Programme Producer will oversee all aspects of delivery, including scheduling, logistics, and production management.

The Programme Producer work closely with colleagues across King’s Culture and across and beyond the university to deliver a schedule of exhibitions, programmes and events across King’s various platforms and spaces – including Science Gallery London and Strand-Aldwych - which deliver knowledge exchange with a range of audiences and stakeholders.

The role requires excellent organisational and communication skills as well as practical hands-on experience in managing and producing small and medium-scale displays, exhibitions, performances, and pop-up events.

The Programme Producer will manage get-ins, maintenance, and get-outs for allocated projects, ensuring permits, health and safety documentation, and transport arrangements are in place. They will also support activity in King’s Culture spaces, facilitating creative R&D such as workshops, test-bed projects, and pop-up exhibitions.

They will provide regular progress updates to senior staff and lead academics, supporting effective coordination of logistics, budgets, and timelines. Budget management is a key responsibility, working with colleagues to forecast, run, and reconcile budgets in line with King’s financial procedures.

The Programme Producer will take the lead on-site when necessary, escalating issues to senior colleagues where appropriate. They will build strong relationships with internal teams, external contractors, suppliers, and partner organisations. The role also involves recruiting, training, and managing student mediators for large-scale activities, as well as supervising temporary staff.

Flexibility is required, as the role includes occasional work outside regular hours during events.

Budget management is a key responsibility, working with colleagues to forecast, run, and reconcile budgets in line with King’s financial procedures.

This is a full time post and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About you

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

Essential criteria

1. Demonstrably skilled in knowledge exchange-focused  exhibition and event production in a university setting.
2. Experience of working across physical and digital platforms, and across public realm.
3. Excellent collaboration, communication and people management skills, especially in working with academics, artists and service providers.
4. Self-motivated and able to thrive in a complex and fast paced environment, willing to deliver all tasks to realise a project/production.
5. Be able to show initiative and resilience when dealing with change.
6. Understanding of the HE sector and the potential universities to drive knowledge exchange with the Creative and Cultural Industries.
7. An understanding of the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) and how it relates to the work of King’s Culture

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.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.