Job id: 119905. Salary: £34,179 - £37,546 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 15 July 2025. Closing date: 03 August 2025.
Business unit: Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sci. Department: Engineering.
Contact details: Jon Millwood. Jonathan.millwood@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Strand Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.
About us
The Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES) comprises the Departments of Chemistry, Informatics, Mathematics, Physics and Engineering and is looking to recruit a full time Business Operations Officer in our Engineering department.
Recently re-founded, the Department of Engineering is rapidly expanding into a world-class research and teaching department. Research currently focuses on robotics, telecommunications and biomedical engineering, but we are looking to establish new research themes.
The Department is supported by an experienced and passionate professional services team, working in partnership with academic colleagues, as well as faculty and central directorates (e.g. admissions, students and education, human resources, research, management accounting services, estates and facilities), to provide a high-quality administrative support service and student and staff experience.
About the role
The Business Operations Officer is a key point of contact for enquiries to the Business Operations Team and works as part of a team to ensure consistent management and delivery of departmental operations by providing high quality and effective administrative support, in accordance with university and Faculty priorities, timelines and policies.
The role holder will provide administrative support in selected sub-areas of the business function, which includes finance, expenses, procurement, auditing, HR, events management, web editing, space management, health and safety, business continuity, information and data management and general projects.
You will actively contribute to the delivery of the faculty’s business function and role model a culture of professionalism with a focus on providing responsive and timely customer service. The role holder will also share best practice with colleagues and help promote new ideas for better and more effective and efficient delivery of services.
The role will be based at the Strand campus, in the heart of Central London. Professional services staff are currently working on a hybrid basis, meaning the role holder will spend part of their working week on campus and the remainder working remotely.
Information on the Department of Engineering and the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences can be found at the following links:
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/engineering
This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), 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. Educated to A-level or equivalent
2. Excellent IT skills, including MS Office, SharePoint, databases
3. Excellent written communications skills, with a high standard of English
4. Excellent customer services skills
5. Excellent organisational and time management skills
6. Excellent attention to detail and high degree of accuracy
7. Experience of office administration
8. Experience of dealing with budgetary and financial processes
Desirable criteria
1. Experience of working in a Higher Education Institution
2. Experience of committee administration
3. Experience of current Health & Safety legislation for an office environment
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 page. 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 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 currently due to be held week commencing 2 September 2025.