King's College London

THIS VACANCY IS OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY

About us:

The post sits within the International, Engagement and Service Directorate (IES), which brings together the expertise of teams engaging with communities and partners locally, national and globally. IES provides strategic leadership for the university’s engagement at home and abroad, alongside a portfolio of innovative programmes that generate and measure impact and serve the communities we work with and for. IES is home to some of King’s most innovative and impact-driven programming including Sanctuary, the Afe Babalola Centre for Transnational Education, King’s Volunteering, One King’s Impact, among others, as well as our civic and place-based engagement in London, and across the world.

About the role:

The Head of Community Partnerships is responsible for coordinating, developing and governing King’s community and social venture partnerships, supporting faculty engagement leads to ensure coherence and alignment across the university.  It focuses on creating new education and research opportunities, enabling scaling of place-based, community knowledge exchange and social venture activity.

The role provides central capacity to coordinate, develop and govern community and social venture partnerships, supporting faculty-based engagement leads to enable collaboration.

This is a full time (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31/07/27. This role is available on secondment. 

About you:

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

Essential criteria

1. Proven ability to design and implement organisation wide partnership strategies, frameworks or governance models.
2. Strong track record of building and developing community-based, place-based, or social innovation partnerships.
3. Demonstrated experience working across complex organisations, engaging internal and external partners to build coordinated networks.
4. Experience creating and scaling programmes, particularly within education or student engagement contexts.
5. Ability to manage multiple partnership pipelines, prioritise opportunities, and move partnerships from concept to delivery.
6. Experience collecting and analysing qualitative and quantitative data to support internal and external reporting and impact measurement.

Desirable criteria

1. Understanding of UK research and knowledge exchange frameworks and how partnerships contribute to institutional performance.
2. Background in supporting or leading bids for research, innovation or community partnership funding.
3. Familiarity with service design methods (e.g. user-centred design, co-design, journey mapping, service improvement) to enhance partnership delivery, efficiency and user experience.

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.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving rapidly, and we recognise its growing role in professional work. Applicants may use AI tools to support preparation of their application, for example to research the role or structure written responses. However, applications must reflect the applicant’s own work and experience. AI tools should not be used during interviews or assessment activities unless this has been agreed in advance as a reasonable adjustment. Further guidance on the use of AI in recruitment can be found  here.

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.

Interviews are due to be held in August.

THIS VACANCY IS OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY