King's College London

About us

The School of Neuroscience is UK’s 2nd largest Neuroscience school with over 500 researcher and 200 PhD students. It is one of three schools at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. We are ranked 4th in the world for the total number of publications in neuroscience, 4th for the number of publication outputs in top 5% citations in neuroscience, and 4th for top 5% citations in neurology.

Our academic and research staff are integral to our school. Their work is supported by a group of Professional Services staff members within the departments as well as at the school level. We support staff members requiring flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments. Upon consultation at the points of recruitment and onboarding, we will strive to provide the best adjustments for you.

We strongly encourage our staff to dedicate time to their professional development through training courses and participation in working groups and networks. We also encourage our staff to seek mentoring outside their direct line management. Mentoring, both via formal and informal arrangements, allows individuals to fully explore their career situation and development. Our weekly school circular regularly captures and promotes opportunities open to all staff 

About the role

The Research Operations Officer is based within the School of Neuroscience and will primarily provide research administration support to two departments: Basic and Clinical Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, on the Denmark Hill campus. 

The role holder will work closely with researchers to support the grant lifecycle, primarily working across post-award, and will be responsible for the day-to-day administration of awards.

The role would suite someone who is able to effectively manage competing priorities, has good attention to detail and is able to build and maintain effective working relationships across the School, Faculty and University.

The role will provide individuals with a wide variety of experience and skills working across research administration in a large and complex School and Faculty, supporting the individual to progress their career within research administration across the University. 

The post is hybrid with an expectation of 3 days per week on campus.

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. Demonstrable knowledge and skills of research support acquired through previous roles.
2. Good numeracy skills and experience of supporting and monitoring financial transactions
3. Knowledge and experience of HR processes, systems and policy regulations.
4. Experience of using Worktribe, Unit 4 Business World and PeopleXD or other university equivalents.
5. Experience of using Excel and Word.
6. Good communication and interpersonal skills in order to receive, understand and relay day-to-day operational ideas or information to various groups.
7. Able to work independently, and as part of a team to contribute to broader team’s goals and objectives.
8. Good organisational and time management skills, with ability to organise workload and manage competing priorities.
9. Good accuracy and attention to detail, with ability to follow and adapt to new procedures and processes.
10. Experience of working within the Higher Education or research sectors

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.

We reserve the right to close the advert earliest than advertised if we receive a sufficient number of applications.