King's College London

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About Us

The King’s Institute for Population Health is a newly created institute hosted in the School of Life Course & Population Sciences, in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London.

The Faculty is one of the largest and most successful centres for research and education in the UK, we benefit from extensive international and local partnerships that encourage innovative and progressive collaboration.

Research is core to what we do and how we educate. We are strategically aligned to King's Health Partners, bringing together academics and clinicians who are committed to ensuring efficient translation and adoption of research innovation into clinical practice.

The Faculty’s mission is to deliver world leading education and research in the biomedical and health sciences. Our international reputation is well established: King’s is positioned 12th globally in the ‘Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health’ disciplinary table by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022. The QS World University Rankings 2022 by Faculty position us 16th for Life Sciences and Medicine.

About the role

This is a joint post between King’s College London and King’s Health Partners (KHP). The post holder will be appointed within the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine to work jointly with King’s Health Partners (mostly through the KHP Director of Partnerships and Operations) and with other faculties across King’s College London. The Senior Institute Manager will lead all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the new multidisciplinary university level King’s Population Health Institute and its partnership initiatives with King’s Health Partners (focusing on the strategic priority for population health). They will provide administrative support to achieve impact, strategic growth and sustainability for the Institute and its partnerships.

Working closely with the Institute’s leadership, the post holder will network within and outside the Institute to fulfil its multidisciplinary mission and ensure impact – especially through working with King’s Health Partners. This role is created at an exciting time for the University as its expanding multidisciplinary opportunities. The post holder will manage and deliver a wide range of business operations to support the Institute’s development of research portfolio and strategic education initiatives.

Responsibilities include managing the Institute’s budget, facilitating effective governance by monitoring and advising leadership on progress against KPIs, and leading the provision of management data for internal and external reporting.

The successful applicant will be proactive with outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong working relationships with colleagues across the University, King’s Health Partners, nationally and internationally, e.g., with the WHO. They will have significant experience in supporting major research initiatives, writing of large, ideally multidisciplinary research projects/programmes, managing financial processes, including budget management, and be highly organised and numerate, with strong written and verbal communication skills. The ideal candidate will possess an entrepreneurial spirit, strong teamwork skills, and a proactive, can-do attitude.

This is a full time (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31/07/2026

About You

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

Essential criteria

1. Demonstrable experience of leading and managing operations in a Higher Education institution, determining resource allocation and establishing standards
2. Significant experience of managing budgets and monitoring, reporting and acting on financial performance
3. Extensive experience of research grant applications processes, procedures and compliance requirements
4. Excellent communication skills, including ability to draft documents and correspondence, build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders and participate in senior management meetings
5. Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively, work with efficiency and to tight deadlines
6. Ability to work independently, proactively, and flexibly, using own judgement and initiative when appropriate
7. Competent ability to understand and analyse complex information and present data to a range of audiences

Desirable criteria

1. Demonstrable experience of building an efficient and effective operational service, including contributing to a culture of continuous improvement
2. Demonstrable experience of servicing and membership on senior level committees that have included a wide range of secretarial duties
3. Ability to influence/lead others inclusively, whilst contributing effectively as part of a team with a ‘hands-on’ approach to working

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 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 on 22/09/2025