KCATO Partnerships Manager

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About us

The King's Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO) offers advice, best practice and information on navigating a clinical academic career. We run strategic capacity building schemes for health professionals in research and offer bespoke support to individuals, cohorts and communities. All health professionals based at the organisations of King's Health Partners can access KCATO:

• King's College London
• Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust.
• King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Strategic priorities are to build clinical academic capacity for all health professions, to provide a central visible contact point for health professionals engaged (or interested) in research, to champion clinical academic careers and to deliver bespoke development sessions to support career progression of our large, diverse community.

Interviews for this role will be held week commencing 22nd July 2024.

About the role

The KCATO Partnerships Manager provides oversight and management of a number of collaborative clinical academic training activities across King's Health Partner organisations, and manages key programmes of work which support the delivery of the KCATO mission and strategy.

Experienced in the delivery of training programmes in the health/life sciences, you will be comfortable building strong working relationships with numerous partners/stakeholders in a complex working environment. Can you help us to take KCATO to the next level, building on the excellent work to date, working closely with our committed academic leads?

You will have responsibility for the delivery and enhancement of existing funded programmes, as well as seeking new opportunities both to build capacity across the pipeline. You will bring creativity and drive to initiate innovative development programmes for our health professionals, supervisors, academic and clinical leads for education and training.

You lead strategic projects seeking to improve processes and remove barriers to clinical academic careers for all health professionals. This includes working across central and local professional and academic teams, including HR, finance, faculty and departmental operations, research contracts, research & development, and external stakeholders such as partner medical schools, funders and NHS England.

A key element of the role is providing linkages between stakeholders and infrastructure that play a key role in supporting clinical academic capacity building e.g. Trust R&D teams, NIHR Infrastructure across KHP, local and national bodies.

You support the preparation of strategic funding bids for clinical academic capacity building, including the NIHR Integrated Academic Training (IAT) Programme at King's, one of the largest in the country.

You line manage KCATO programme managers/coordinators who have specific responsibility for delivering funded training schemes e.g. NIHR.

You develop strategies to enhance communication and engagement with the broad community, showcasing the KCATO offering and gathering continuous input and feedback on activities.

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract. Requests for flexible working arrangements will be considered.

About you

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

Essential criteria

1. Demonstrable professional experience managing higher education training, education and/or capacity building programmes in a research or health setting
2. Project management skills, with excellent skills in prioritising tasks and organisation
3. Able speak with authority and interact with, influence and engage stakeholders at all levels of seniority
4. Excellent written communication skills, including experience of drafting and presenting papers at formal committees
5. Ability to work independently and as part of a team to deliver projects in partnership
6. A track record of delivering collaborative activities with universities and/or NHS, and an understanding of the funding and policy landscape pertinent to clinical academic careers
7. Accuracy and attention to detail
8. Line management experience
9. Budget management experience

Desirable criteria

1. Postgraduate qualification and/or research experience in a health-related subject
2. Experience of designing and implementing a comms strategy
3. Understanding of issues pertinent to clinical academic careers, such as HR/contract issues

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 next page after you click "Apply Now". This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

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 on 22nd July 2024.