King's College London

About us

King’s Academy works closely with staff, students and external partners in fostering and supporting the teaching and learning experience for students at King’s.

We focus on driving continuous improvement in education and empower colleagues through evidence informed practice.

Working in partnership with faculties, staff, students and external collaborators, we create opportunities to focus on improving educational practices and promoting a progressive academic culture.  These include events, workshops, partnerships, funding opportunities and more.

About the role

We are seeking enthusiastic individuals with appropriate disciplinary experience, for the post of Senior Programme Manager

This role will work across various programmes activity at King’s Academy such as the delivery of the King’s Education Awards, Staff Student Partnership, and initiatives within the Leadership and Scholarship programme.  In addition, the role will support the Head of Operations in providing business support within the team.

This is an exciting opportunity for colleagues who wish to build on their project management skills and expertise working closely with educators both within King’s Academy and across Faculties, engaging with Faculty Staff and Students, to co-develop programmes and activities that will ultimately support staff who teach.

The Senior Programme Manager will join a friendly, existing Operations Team at King’s Academy and will be closely supported within King’s Academy.  The postholder will help to ensure operational efficiency in key areas.  At times members from the team will share responsibilities and duties when required.

The role is primarily based at King’s JCMB Campus though you may be required to travel to other campuses on occasion. As part of King’s hybrid working policy, all team members are expected to be on campus 40-60% of the time, though we would be happy to consider flexible working in discussion with you.

The post will be an indefinite contract.  This is a full time post (35 hours per week) on a Professional Services contract.

Please note that interviews are likely to take place either towards end October, or November based on the availability of the panel.

When writing your application, please take care to address all the essential criteria (and desirable criteria where possible) providing clear and concise examples where applicable.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions in the course of applying for this role.

 About you

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

Essential criteria

1.      We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Work experience might include solid project management experience.  Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training.  

2.      Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate and distribute information clearly with stakeholders of varying seniority. Contribute to team discussions with confidence but give others space to speak.   

3.      Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office suite including Power Automate, Flow, Streaming, Bookings. Highly numerate with an understanding of planning processes, gained in a university or comparable environment.   

4.      Experience of managing projects or events with autonomy and supporting others through the development of a process.  

5.      Ability to establish and proactively build professional working relationships with external and internal stakeholders  

6.      Ability to interpret and analyse data to support decision making 

7.      Lead on identifying opportunities for operational improvements and deliver implementation of improvements.   

8.      Ability to balance competing priorities under pressure of deadlines and workload and ability to take on new tasks with minimal supervision

Desirable criteria

1.      Experience of event and programme management in a Higher Education setting

2.      Experience of working with students to help drive change and ensure student perspectives influence decision making.  

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

When writing your application, please take care to address all the essential criteria (and desirable criteria where possible) providing clear and concise examples where applicable. 

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.

Please note that interviews are likely to take place either towards end October, or November based on the availability of the panel.