Global Mobility Senior Officer (Outgoing Students Co-ordinator)

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About us:

The King's community is dedicated to the service of society. King's Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.

The Global Mobility Office is a student-facing and external-facing professional services team of eleven. This is an opportunity to join a small, close, centralised professional services team providing inbound and outbound study and work abroad lifecycle support and reporting, mobility partnership agreement negotiation and management, and administration of Erasmus, Turing and the Staff International Exchange Programme, in pursuance of the university's Education and International strategies.

We are part of the Students & Education Directorate, a collection of wide-ranging professional services in place to support King's students and their education. As a directorate we manage the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond, to ensure a coherent and seamless student experience and effective administrative processes, working closely with King's faculties to do so.

About the role:

The Global Mobility Senior Officer (Outgoing Students Co-ordinator) co-ordinates with the Global Mobility Officer (Outgoing Student Support) and Global Mobility Officer (Increasing Opportunities) to manage King's outgoing Study Abroad opportunities, facilitating King's students to study or work overseas for a semester, year or summer. The role combines programme administration, event management, student support and international relationship liaison.

The Global Mobility Senior Officer (Outgoing Students Co-ordinator) has operational responsibility for a set of tasks and processes within the Global Mobility Office's wider remit. They work within and across multiple teams at the university, engaging with a wide range of colleagues.

This includes managing the planning and delivery of all outgoing Study Abroad programmes, including briefing students and staff on opportunities, managing student applications, their assessment and resulting partner allocation, and co-ordinating with faculties, central services and overseas partner organisations to support student participants.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to work in a small, close, centralised professional services team that is both student-focused and external-facing and who wish to develop and utilise their skills and expertise in student mobility programme co-ordination, cross-functional working, international relations and student support.

We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week) covering a colleague's career break and you will be offered a fixed-term contract until October 2026.

About you:

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

Essential criteria

1. Relevant work experience and/or education: We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in other universities or any other large, complicated organisation, or else in roles with a diplomatic sensibility. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training.
2. Outstanding administrative skills and experience to manage complex programmes
3. Excellent English language and communications skills in all media with the ability to communicate information - including regular matters of a non-routine nature - clearly
4. Efficient and effective knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, Teams and particularly Excel
5. Excellent organisational and time-management skills
6. Excellent and varied stakeholder relationship management skills
7. Strong ability to work with others and alone, under pressure, to manage challenging deadlines for self and others
8. Understanding the need for sensitivity and confidentiality as well as when and how to escalate sensitive matters

Desirable criteria

1. Ability to demonstrate a meaningful and visible commitment to Diversity & Inclusion practices
2. Ability to work with others across organisations to support project and programme aims and overcome challenges
3. Experience of administering study abroad and/or exchange programmes
4. Experience of using SITS:Vision or other student record databases

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 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.

Interviews are due to be held in-person at our Waterloo campus on the 16th and 17th of September 2025.