Our Principles in Action
In everything we do, we apply Our Principles in Action
About King’s College London
King's College London is one of the top public universities in the UK ranking 40th in the world (QS World University Rankings 2024) and is the fourth oldest university in England. Based in the heart of London split across five campuses, King’s has over 33,000 students from over 190 countries and 9,500 staff. As a member of the Russell Group, an association of leading UK research-intensive universities, King’s provides high-quality education, research and innovation across the sciences, humanities, medicine, law, dentistry, and social sciences, and is the largest centre for the education of healthcare professionals in Europe. King’s Strategic Vision looks forward to our 200th anniversary in 2029. It shows how King’s will make the world a better place by focusing on five key strategic priorities: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; an international community that serves the world. King’s is comprised of 9 faculties: Faculty of Arts & Humanities Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King’s Business School Dickson Poon School of Law
About AI+X Initiative
Enhancing AI capability was identified as a key ambition in Strategy 2026 and Vision 2029, across both research and education themes. Our objective is to build King’s capability, visibility and standing in this rapidly growing and highly important field, which will be crucial for our position as a world-leading university. We are seeking to build critical mass in AI with a focus on building our capability across three key applied “AI+X” themes: • AI + health • AI + humanities/business/law/ social sciences (including defence/security) • AI + science and technology To achieve this, we are launching a 5-year King’s Academic Fellowship in AI. An incredibly exciting opportunity for the King's Search Researcher to play a significant role in hiring the best global talent to King's. We are looking for someone to understand the requirements of our clients, and to identify high quality and emerging talent, applying a methodical approach to process and reporting.
Appointment details
Salary
Grade 5 (£38,232 - £42,999 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance)
Terms
Hours of work
Fixed Term Contract (until 31st July 2026)
Closing date for applications:
26 March 2025 13:30
Vacancy ID
110066
The role
The Researcher will be required to map the market, update our candidate database (Invenias), approach prospective candidates and produce high quality reporting and paperwork for our client base. As a Researcher you will be expected to develop a broad range of knowledge across multiple academic disciplines (including King’s Health Partners) so that we can attract top talent and provide insight, advice, and expertise to candidates and our client groups. Understanding the market and talent attraction strategies is fundamental to producing the best possible outcomes at interview and is the backbone to the success of every assignment. Everyone in the team is responsible for delivering the highest quality service to our clients, candidates, and to represent King’s externally to the highest standards. As a small team, we work closely together, supporting one another and getting involved in all aspects of an assignment. As an in-house team we take on more administration than an external provider, and all members of the team are expected to help with administration and logistics.
Key responsibilities
• Conduct extensive and creative market mapping through desk-based research and obtaining referrals on potential candidates through sourcing. • Identify target universities and organisations, possible candidates, and demonstrate candidate relevance to a search. • Build an appreciation and understanding of activity across King's in the field of Artificial Intelligence, including who the key stakeholders and clients are. • Join briefings and other relevant meetings with clients and stakeholders to understand and record the needs, requirements, and expectations of the role. • Produce high-quality written work that is accurate, detailed, and timely such as create, update, and distribute search reports. • Work collaboratively as part of a team to deliver multiple assignments across several different disciplines and faculties at the same time. • Provide administrative support outside of assignments to facilitate team projects and knowledge sharing, such as GDPR compliance, and diversity and inclusion initiatives. • Take ownership for updating the candidate database (Invenias) and HR systems at every stage of the process. • Work collaboratively with the broader HR team to ensure we are compliant with policy changes and legal requirements (e.g. work visas) • Contribute to team meetings and discussions with ideas that will improve the efficiency and quality of the search process. • Keep aware of trends and news in the field of Artificial Intelligence in order to build understanding and credibility in the discipline.
Essential criteria
• Have completed A Levels or equivalent, and an undergraduate degree. • Have experience of working within executive search, recruitment, or an inhouse talent team. • Demonstrate strong computer skills including MS Office applications. The postholder will ideally bring experience of using integrated candidate databases (for example Invenias, or a similar hiring database). • Bring excellent research/mapping skills with a good understanding of how to present findings to clients. • Have excellent administration skills, attention to detail, and a methodical approach to accurately recording information. • Be able to effectively prioritise multiple projects and deadlines in tight timescales. • Be flexible and able to adapt and cope with shifting priorities, timelines, and uncertainty. • Proactive and willing to take on new tasks and actively ask for and offer support where needed. • Have experience of dealing with people at all levels of an organisation, receiving and providing complex, confidential, and sensitive information in both verbal and written formats. • Have excellent communication, listening and interpersonal skills.
Desirable criteria
• Maintain a broad knowledge of trends and changes across King's and the higher education sector. • Have an interest and affinity to higher education and the full spectrum of King’s academic disciplines. • Have a good understanding of the requirements of GDPR compliance.
Vision 2029
King's Vision builds upon our history of service to society and takes us to our 200th anniversary in 2029
About King's Search
The King’s Search Team was set up in 2017 with the aim of supporting senior academic and professional services recruitment. As the first permanent executive search team to be established in a UK university, we are a distinctive and innovative offering in higher education. We are a small and specialist team (team of 10), with a broad cross section of recruitment and executive search experience. Embedded within the HR Department, we are uniquely positioned to help King's to attract the most influential, diverse, and dynamic leaders from across the globe. We have established strong working relationships with King’s senior leaders and have invested significant time in understanding the cultural and structural differences between each faculty and directorate. Each search presents a learning curve and continues to provide an opportunity to evolve and adapt our processes. We combine external executive search experience with existing internal process and expectation, and we understand the importance of flexibility and agility in achieving successful outcomes. Equality, Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do, and it is our mission to diversify our talent pools and to support King’s in its strategic ambitions and targets. As the executive search team of choice for the university, we are committed to executing an open, transparent process and to help foster an inclusive environment that allow individuals to flourish. We have worked extensively with the leadership team on our joint ambitions to achieve greater parity, and make this a priority in all stages of the hiring process. As the only full service in-house executive search team within a UK university, we are a unique offering and have an exciting opportunity to raise the bar and to be the gold standard not only for King’s, but across UK higher education and beyond.
Please quote the vacancy id: 110066 in all correspondence.
Closing date for applications: 26 March 2025 13:30
Interview date: 02 April 2025
Application process
You'll be required to submit a CV and supporting statement (2 sides A4 max) outlining your relevant experience and why you are interested in this role. Further details on 'how to apply' can be found in the 'Jobs at King's' link located on the right side of this page. We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.
Contact us
For more information regarding the vacancy please contact us using the details below
Selection process
Applications will be shortlisted by a selection committee drawn from across the HR Directorate.
Jobs at King's
Current vacancies and career opportunities
The role
The Researcher will be required to map the market, update our candidate database (Invenias), approach prospective candidates and produce high quality reporting and paperwork for our client base. As a Researcher you will be expected to develop a broad range of knowledge across multiple academic disciplines (including King’s Health Partners) so that we can attract top talent and provide insight, advice, and expertise to candidates and our client groups. Understanding the market and talent attraction strategies is fundamental to producing the best possible outcomes at interview and is the backbone to the success of every assignment. Everyone in the team is responsible for delivering the highest quality service to our clients, candidates, and to represent King’s externally to the highest standards. As a small team, we work closely together, supporting one another and getting involved in all aspects of an assignment. As an in-house team we take on more administration than an external provider, and all members of the team are expected to help with administration and logistics.
Key responsibilities
• Conduct extensive and creative market mapping through desk-based research and obtaining referrals on potential candidates through sourcing. • Identify target universities and organisations, possible candidates, and demonstrate candidate relevance to a search. • Build an appreciation and understanding of activity across King's in the field of Artificial Intelligence, including who the key stakeholders and clients are. • Join briefings and other relevant meetings with clients and stakeholders to understand and record the needs, requirements, and expectations of the role. • Produce high-quality written work that is accurate, detailed, and timely such as create, update, and distribute search reports. • Work collaboratively as part of a team to deliver multiple assignments across several different disciplines and faculties at the same time. • Provide administrative support outside of assignments to facilitate team projects and knowledge sharing, such as GDPR compliance, and diversity and inclusion initiatives. • Take ownership for updating the candidate database (Invenias) and HR systems at every stage of the process. • Work collaboratively with the broader HR team to ensure we are compliant with policy changes and legal requirements (e.g. work visas) • Contribute to team meetings and discussions with ideas that will improve the efficiency and quality of the search process. • Keep aware of trends and news in the field of Artificial Intelligence in order to build understanding and credibility in the discipline.
Essential criteria
• Have completed A Levels or equivalent, and an undergraduate degree. • Have experience of working within executive search, recruitment, or an inhouse talent team. • Demonstrate strong computer skills including MS Office applications. The postholder will ideally bring experience of using integrated candidate databases (for example Invenias, or a similar hiring database). • Bring excellent research/mapping skills with a good understanding of how to present findings to clients. • Have excellent administration skills, attention to detail, and a methodical approach to accurately recording information. • Be able to effectively prioritise multiple projects and deadlines in tight timescales. • Be flexible and able to adapt and cope with shifting priorities, timelines, and uncertainty. • Proactive and willing to take on new tasks and actively ask for and offer support where needed. • Have experience of dealing with people at all levels of an organisation, receiving and providing complex, confidential, and sensitive information in both verbal and written formats. • Have excellent communication, listening and interpersonal skills.
Desirable criteria
• Maintain a broad knowledge of trends and changes across King's and the higher education sector. • Have an interest and affinity to higher education and the full spectrum of King’s academic disciplines. • Have a good understanding of the requirements of GDPR compliance.
Our Principles in Action
In everything we do, we apply Our Principles in Action
Vision 2029
King's Vision builds upon our history of service to society and takes us to our 200th anniversary in 2029
About King's Search
The King’s Search Team was set up in 2017 with the aim of supporting senior academic and professional services recruitment. As the first permanent executive search team to be established in a UK university, we are a distinctive and innovative offering in higher education. We are a small and specialist team (team of 10), with a broad cross section of recruitment and executive search experience. Embedded within the HR Department, we are uniquely positioned to help King's to attract the most influential, diverse, and dynamic leaders from across the globe. We have established strong working relationships with King’s senior leaders and have invested significant time in understanding the cultural and structural differences between each faculty and directorate. Each search presents a learning curve and continues to provide an opportunity to evolve and adapt our processes. We combine external executive search experience with existing internal process and expectation, and we understand the importance of flexibility and agility in achieving successful outcomes. Equality, Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do, and it is our mission to diversify our talent pools and to support King’s in its strategic ambitions and targets. As the executive search team of choice for the university, we are committed to executing an open, transparent process and to help foster an inclusive environment that allow individuals to flourish. We have worked extensively with the leadership team on our joint ambitions to achieve greater parity, and make this a priority in all stages of the hiring process. As the only full service in-house executive search team within a UK university, we are a unique offering and have an exciting opportunity to raise the bar and to be the gold standard not only for King’s, but across UK higher education and beyond.
Please quote the vacancy id: 110066 in all correspondence.
Closing date for applications: 26 March 2025 13:30
Interview date: 02 April 2025
Application process
You'll be required to submit a CV and supporting statement (2 sides A4 max) outlining your relevant experience and why you are interested in this role. Further details on 'how to apply' can be found in the 'Jobs at King's' link located on the right side of this page. We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.
Contact us
For more information regarding the vacancy please contact us using the details below
Selection process
Applications will be shortlisted by a selection committee drawn from across the HR Directorate.
Jobs at King's
Current vacancies and career opportunities