King's College London

About us

The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in  Advanced Engineering for Personalised Surgery & Intervention (AE-PSI) launched in late June 2024 funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) together with co-investment from King’s College London and industrial and philanthropic partners. 

AE-PSI is one of the Doctoral Training Entities administered by the King’s Doctoral College and is based in FoLSM’s School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (BMEIS) with cross-faculty collaboration with the Departments of Engineering and Informatics in  NMES. AE-PSI’s ambition is to train 100+ doctoral students across five cohorts from Academic Years 2024-25 to 2028-29.

About the role

The multifaceted role of CDT Operations Officer spanning the functions of research operations and engagement is a new post expanding AE-PSI’s Professional Services team. The post holder will work closely with the Centre Manager as well as AE-PSI’s Deputy Director Operations in the day-to-day running of the CDT.

The CDT Operations Officer will support the management of doctoral students in the specialised context of a CDT offering 4-year funded studentships across two training pathways: MRes+PhD and MPhil+PhD. This will include the coordination of recruitment, onboarding, progress monitoring, and funding through to completion. It will also include engagement activities such as planning and running events, building and managing partnerships with external entities, and liaising with internal and external colleagues to draft and disseminate promotional materials and operational updates.

Priorities to support the recruitment of new students include developing an expansive pool of industry co-funded projects, collaborating with relevant Comms teams to attract diverse high-calibre applicants, streamlining admissions processes, and onboarding successful candidates. With an emphasis on student welfare, supporting current candidates includes delivering a bespoke doctoral education curriculum, hosting community-building events, and feeding the student voice into the development of the CDT through the AE-PSI Student Assembly. To ensure sustainable growth as well as the success of individual students, managing the budget requires monitoring expenditure from various funding sources while fostering strong collaboration with industrial and philanthropic partners.

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 relevant vocational experience.

2.      Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to communicate and tailor content effectively for different formats and audiences.

3.      Strong organisational and time management skills with proven capacity for independently structuring own workload and prioritising tasks to deliver across multiple work streams.

4.      Experience of building an effective network across and beyond a complex organisation with both internal and external stakeholders and working effectively with multidisciplinary teams.

5.      Demonstrable project management skills.

6.      Experience of event coordination and delivery for a range of different event types (internal and external).

7.      High level of computer literacy including familiarity with MS Office applications and some experience with content management systems (e.g., Contensis and/or WordPress) and learning management systems (e.g., Blackboard and/or Moodle).

8.      Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, actively addressing areas of potential bias.

Desirable criteria

1.      Experience of supporting education provision in Higher Education institutions, ideally in the context of the doctoral training environment.

2.      Enthusiasm for and commitment to enhancing student experience.

3.      Experience of managing budgets.

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.

Interviews are due to be held as soon as possible after the application deadline.