King's College London

About us 

Our mission is to provide transformative, high-quality digital education, so students can learn, wherever they are. 

We collaborate with academics and professional services staff across the university, and with our external partners, to design, develop and deliver a wide range of educational programmes.   

Our learners study with us from across the world, choosing when and where they study, working around their schedules.  

We are a dynamic team with ambitious growth targets in a priority area of development for King’s. We proudly foster a supportive culture and community which prioritises both individual and collective wellbeing. 

Employee support at King’s includes flexible working arrangements, paid maternity/shared parental leave, menopausal support, an active wellbeing programme, training and development opportunities and much more. All of our staff benefit from a generous pension contribution as well.  

As part of hybrid working at King’s, all team members can work remotely for part of the week if they wish.  

Join us as we open futures and unlock potential. 

About the role 

This role sits at the centre of how King’s Digital brings new online programmes to market and ensures that each intake is operationally ready. The Digital Curriculum Launch Manager coordinates the initial launch of newly approved online programmes delivered as part of an annual cycle, as well as subsequent re-launches across intakes, ensuring that programmes are ready to recruit to and deliver in line with institutional requirements and operational standards.

Working at the intersection of academic teams, professional services, and external student acquisition partners, the role acts as a connector and translator across marketing, recruitment, admissions, and governance and compliance requirements. The postholder brings clarity to complex, cross-functional activity, ensuring that responsibilities are understood, dependencies are actively managed, and any issues are identified and addressed at an early stage.

A central focus of the role is intake readiness, alignment, and risk management. The Digital Curriculum Launch Manager provides a clear, integrated view of readiness across teams, helping to ensure that programme information, academic governance requirements, and operational arrangements are in place ahead of each intake, and that risks or gaps are surfaced early enough for informed decisions to be taken.

This is a delivery-focused, coordination-led managerial role. Success is underpinned by structured project management, sound judgement, clear communication, and consistent follow-through across multiple programmes and intakes. The role also includes day-to-day line management responsibility for a small yet dedicated launch team, with accountability for setting direction, allocating work, and supporting performance and professional development.

This role is well suited to someone who enjoys working across organisational boundaries, is comfortable coordinating multiple teams with different priorities and constraints, and takes satisfaction in bringing structure and momentum to complex, fast-moving situations. You do not need to be a subject matter expert in marketing, admissions, or academic governance, but you should be confident working closely with people who are, and able to translate between perspectives and priorities to support effective delivery.

Candidates who enjoy working at the intersection of systems, people, and processes – and who value making complex activity run smoothly and reliably – are likely to find this role both challenging and rewarding.

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. End‑to‑end launch and intake coordination capability, including coordinating go‑to‑market launches and/or annual re‑launch cycles for complex programmes, products or services, with defined readiness checkpoints, dependencies and deliverables.
2. Strong cross‑functional stakeholder management, with the confidence to work with academic leads, programme teams, admissions, quality and compliance colleagues, senior stakeholders and external partners, and to translate between academic requirements, operational constraints and external or commercial partner needs. 
3. Robust project management capability, evidenced by managing complex, multi‑stakeholder work from planning through delivery, keeping sight of dependencies, risks, timelines and escalation routes through structured working practices.
4. Excellent communication and coordination skills, including producing clear launch plans, intake status updates and concise briefing papers, and chairing or coordinating cross‑team meetings while maintaining momentum and follow‑through.
5. Ability to identify and manage risk, including assessing risk, resolving issues, considering downstream implications, and balancing pace, quality and compliance across delivery and intake preparation.
6. Understanding of HE structures and governance, including working knowledge of programme approval processes, curriculum governance, academic calendars and regulatory frameworks, with awareness of CMA compliance, programme information standards, accessibility requirements and quality assurance expectations.
7. Ability to take informed, balanced decisions, drawing on complex information, evidence and sound judgement developed through degree‑level study or equivalent professional experience, and weighing sometimes competing needs and viewpoints.
8. Strong organisational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple programme launches and multiple intakes simultaneously using dashboards, trackers and shared planning tools, while maintaining attention to detail and a portfolio‑level view.

Desirable criteria

1. A formal project management qualification, such as AgilePM, PRINCE2 or an equivalent recognised certification.
2. Experience working with external student acquisition partners (including OPMs or commercial partners involved in marketing, recruitment and/or admissions), with an understanding of partnership governance, SLAs and escalation routes.
3. Understanding of student recruitment, conversion and admissions pipelines, including how leads progress through marketing, recruitment and enrolment, and the ability to interpret intake‑level signals to support readiness and early risk identification.
4. Experience in digital or online education operations, with familiarity with online or digital programme models and online learner expectations.
5. Process improvement, operational design and team support experience, including coordinating post‑launch reviews, identifying patterns across intakes, and refining or standardising cross‑team workflows across multiple programmes, alongside providing day‑to‑day line management support within a small operational team.

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

At King’s, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university. 

The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension.

We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination.

When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King’s guidance.

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 person specification section of the job description. 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.

We reserve the right to close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive. While the closing date may change, all adverts will close at 23:59 to allow sufficient time for applications to be submitted on that day.

We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as once we have closed a vacancy you will be unable to submit your application.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.