Research Culture Manager

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About Us

At King's, we continuously strive to be an inclusive, culturally aware and culturally competent organisation that respects the differences of our community by providing an environment that both acknowledges and celebrates diversity and embraces inclusion.

The Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine (FoLSM) is an internationally renowned centre of excellence in biomedical sciences, situated in the heart of London. We undertake ground-breaking research, basic science to translational, to improve the wellbeing of our communities, and engage with organisations around the world to create real value for society. There are presently nearly 500 academic staff, nearly 800 research staff and over 700 professional services staff within the Faculty. We have over 7000 students pursuing an extensive range of undergraduate programmes (including medicine, pharmacy, physiotherapy, biosciences, biomedical engineering) as well as masters and PhD programmes.

About the role

This is a new role within FoLSM working across the Faculty Research and People and Culture teams. If successful, you will support FoLSM to deliver a research culture project with the strategic goal to foster an open, flexible and inclusive environment, where all staff and students feel included. Specifically, the project focuses on capitalising on existing good practice and resources to consolidate and enhance our research staff support and embed this provision consistently across all our Departments and Schools.

Working with the Faculty Research Manager and Vice Deans, Research and Impact and People and Culture, you will be responsible for implementing a programme of research culture activities across the faculty focussing on improving career development for research staff. As Research Culture Project Manager, you will create clear ownership, expertise and accountability for delivery of initiatives and improvements to research culture. You will also work with the King's central Research Culture team, the Centre for Research Staff Development, and similar posts in other faculties to ensure King's initiatives are communicated and embedded within FoLSM and that examples of best practice are shared across the college.

It is an exciting time to join the team as we work towards establishing an open, positive, and inclusive research culture within FoLSM and across King's. This role is a great opportunity if you are an energetic, enthusiastic, and collaborative worker interested in expanding your knowledge around research culture and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in Higher Education.

This is a full time and you will be offered an a fixed term contract until 31st March 2027.

About You

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

Essential criteria

1. Awareness and understanding of research culture
2. Work collaboratively within a team and across a large, complex organisation with the ability to work with a broad range of stakeholders in a professional and assured manner
3. Strong interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to manage sensitive information and situations to build collective ownership and change
4. Excellent project management skills for managing a complex programme and ability to work under pressure in a busy environment with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
5. Strong skills in planning and facilitating workshops, events and working groups
6. Experience gathering, analysing, and interpreting quantitative and/or qualitative data, undertake desktop research and report writing
7. Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to clearly explain specialist matters, influence others thinking and build strong relationships
8. Experience of developing innovative solutions and practical implementation for strategic change
9. Experience of supporting and enabling continuous professional and staff development
10. Highly proficient IT skills (including Excel, Word, Powerpoint) and experience of utilising advanced digital technology in day-to-day work

Desirable criteria

1. Good understanding and experience of research careers within Higher Education
2. Good understanding and experience of EDI and organisational development within Higher Education

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.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.