Essential:

• Extensive professional and/or industry experience as a world-leading composer familiar with today’s stage, screen, media, and/or digital/AI environments. • Demonstrable ability to teach composition. • Proven ability to work successfully with a wide range of people, institutions, and professional environments. • Ability to manage communications and coordination smoothly with others, and to meet deadlines effectively and efficiently.

Desirable:

• PhD in composition for screen, stage, media or digital environments, or extensive professional experience in these or related areas. • Teaching experience in higher education including module design, preparation and assessment, and supervision and mentoring of students. • A teaching qualification, e.g. Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

Faculty of Arts & Humanities

King’s Arts & Humanities is the home of eleven departments — distinctive in representing exceptional strength in both the longer established disciplines (such as Philosophy, Classics, Theology, English, History, Languages, and Music) and world-leading quality in more recently established fields (such as Digital Humanities, Film, Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts, and Culture, Media and Creative Industries). Teaching over 5,000 students and 600 PhD researchers through its Doctoral School, King's Arts & Humanities is one of the largest Faculties of its kind in the UK. King's Arts & Humanities is ranked in the top 5 in the UK (QS Subject Rankings 2025).

Department of Music

The Music Department offers high-level teaching and a flourishing research culture in performance, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, jazz and popular music studies. We have long-standing links with the Royal Academy of Music and the School of Oriental and African Studies. We welcome students from all over the world. We teach them to engage in innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding musical experience. Our students leave us as well-rounded musicians, able to use their experience in a variety of professional contexts, and capable of critically reflecting on – and contributing to – society through music. We have a relatively small, selective intake of undergraduate communities, and one of the largest postgraduate communities in the country. You will meet first-rate students at different stages of their careers. The Department hosts lectures, conferences, seminars, workshops and colloquia open to the public, at which our students encounter globally recognized scholars, composers and musicians. The Music Department at King’s College London enjoys a close relationship with the Royal Academy of Music. All eligible undergraduate students in the Music Department receive individual instrumental/vocal tuition with teachers from the Royal Academy of Music. This provides the opportunity to combine conservatoire tuition with a university degree. Teachers are individually allocated, to ensure a close fit for each student’s needs, and a generous allowance of hours means that lessons are frequent. Instrumentalists and singers at King’s generally find many performance opportunities both at the university and in London at large. Each year, several graduating students audition successfully for postgraduate performance courses at conservatoires.

To apply for this post you will need to register on the King’s College London Job application portal, and submit the application form, along with the following: • a statement setting out your reasons for applying for the post and highlighting the particular skill and experience which demonstrates your fit to the role (2 pages max) • a curriculum vitae

King’s College London is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion and through this appointment process it is the university’s clear stated aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities. We particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and minority ethnic communities, the LGBT+ community and from disabled people.