King's College London

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About Us

The School of Life Course & Population Sciences is one of six Schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. The School unites over 400 experts in women and children’s health, diabetes, nutritional sciences, population health and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease, and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works: 91 per cent of our research submitted to the Subjects Allied to Medicine (Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences and Women's Health cluster) for REF 2014 was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across six Departments.

About the role

The Paediatric Allergy Group at King’s College London is one of the most innovative research centres for children’s allergies in the world, headed by Professor Gideon Lack. The group hosts a portfolio of non-commercial and commercial studies with a focus in food allergy diagnosis, prevention and treatment. We are now seeking a Senior Operations Officer to join our friendly multidisciplinary research team based at the Evelina Children’s Hospital, St. Thomas’.

This role will primarily be involved in the handling and entry of data across multiple studies, including maintaining, entering and transferring clinical study data between patient records, case report forms and the study’s Electronic Data Capture (EDC) systems, as well as collating, cleaning and analysing data on an ad-hoc basis.

The post-holder will take on overall responsibility for data quality, i.e. ensure that all studies’ data are complete, consistently presented and accurate as well as use their initiative to develop and implement relevant evaluation/surveillance strategies, while maintaining team members’ full co-operation. This also includes the pro-active resolution of often complex data issues as they arise. Additional responsibilities will include supporting study-specific administrative tasks with the Research Manager, such as processing participant expenses and maintaining site files.

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an a fixed term contract until 13/04/2026.

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 (scientific/numerical), with high level of computer literacy, including proficient knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Access
2. Experience of using complex databases and management information systems
3. Ability to work independently and as part of a team, as required
4. Highly organised with attention to detail, and excellent task management skills both for self and others, meeting tight deadlines and dealing with competing demands
5. Excellent communication skills with solutions and quality focused approach
6. Experience of conducting clinical or health-related research

Desirable criteria

1. Good Clinical Practice Training Certificate
2. Undergraduate degree in scientific/numerical subject
3. Full understanding of data protection legislation and its application within the clinical research setting

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.

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service clearance.