King's College London

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About Us

King’s College London is a leading University with nine Faculties. As part of King’s Health Partners, we have an excellent environment for health care interaction and a strong focus on mentoring and career development.

The 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) placed King’s applied and allied health research 1st for: overall proportion of research rated 4* (world-leading, the best mark possible), research papers rated 4*, impact rated 4*, environment rated 4*(joint), Grade Point Average and Power.  REF2021 rated as world-leading: 100% of our environment, 86% of our impact and 70% of our research overall. Over 95% of our research overall was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.

As of 2025, our Faculty is number 1 in the world for Nursing (QS world rankings). King’s produces more highly cited research outputs (top 1% citations) on palliative care than any other centre internationally (SciVal), and is second in the world on the same metric for nursing and midwifery. King’s is the largest provider of health care education in Europe.

The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) is based in the heart of central and south London. It includes the Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, the premier Institute for Palliative Care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams.

Our applied clinical and health multidisciplinary research transforms therapies, the healthcare experience and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for. Our award-winning NMPC education programmes span pre-registration nursing and midwifery, and multidisciplinary post-graduate taught and research programmes.

We are committed to staff development and offer opportunities to identify and access appropriate training and professional growth.   

About the role

We are really pleased to offer this excellent opportunity to join our team in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care as a Senior Research Support Officer providing ‘cradle to grave’ support to achieve our research aims.

The postholder will provide high quality and comprehensive administrative, budgetary and research project support to the three research divisions and Institute as well as ensuring the successful delivery of key research initiatives across the Faculty. 

The Senior Research Operations Officer will work closely with researchers to support the grant lifecycle – from bid development through to the day-to-day administration of awards – supporting their group of projects. 

The post will be based in the Faculty’s Research Support Office, you will work closely with the Research Support Manager, Institute Business Manager as well as the Faculty Research & Impact Manager as well as central services. 

As a busy and successful research team, the role would be suited to someone who is able to manage multiple competing priorities, good attention to detail and is able to build and maintain effective working relationships across the Faculty and the university. 

Within this role you will become rounded and experienced at costing research projects, reviewing applications in line with King’s finance policies as well as providing support once the project is live.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30 November 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 or significant relevant experience
2. Experience of supporting research activity within HEI (or related sector) and a strong understanding of the research funding landscape
3. Demonstrable experience of financial planning, implementation, preparing budgets, plans and monitoring key performance indicators
4. Clear task management and organisation skills; ability to work under pressure with competing and shifting priorities, deadlines and workload
5. High standard of numeracy with proven financial management and analytical skills
6. Experience of building an effective network across, working effectively with external and internal stakeholders
7. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
8. Excellent IT skills (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, databases, and internet browsers)

Desirable criteria

1. Knowledge of administrative platforms used by research staff and students (e.g. PURE, ethics databases, Worktribe)
2. Knowledge of financial and accounting processes
3. Understanding of Academic Research Strategy

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.