Senior Events & Engagement Officer

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About Us

King's Faculty of Arts & Humanities is 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 Studies, Interdisciplinary Humanities, and Culture, Media and Creative Industries).

The faculty's Impact & Knowledge Exchange team, established in 2022, supports development of a culture that shapes and sustains the public impact of the faculty's research to deliver positive societal change across London, the UK and internationally. It does so through varied activities including: managing an Arts & Humanities Research Council Impact Acceleration Account; supporting the faculty's plans for the Research Excellence Framework 2029 (REF2029); providing advice, guidance, and training for academics undertaking, or wishing to undertake, engagement & impact activities; and supporting a diverse range of impactful events.

About The Role

Based in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities' Impact & Knowledge Exchange team, this new post will manage events and engagement activities (in-person, hybrid and online) and associated processes across the faculty. In doing so, the chief purpose of the role is to provide high quality events management support and processes to academics across the faculty, whether the events are targeted at external or internal audiences or a mixture of both.

Responsible to the faculty's Impact & Knowledge Exchange Manager and providing line management to the Events & Engagement Coordinator, you will directly manage ca. 40 events per year, ensuring a smooth and professional experience for the academics supported. You will also provide expert advice and guidance on all aspects of good events practice, including effective evaluation, to academics.

As the faculty's lead expert in events, you will proactively troubleshoot challenges and provide recommendations for solutions to issues faced. You will also make important contributions to national assessment exercises - for example, ensuring rigorous events for the REF2029 and leading on annual data returns for the Higher Education Business & Community Interaction Survey.

Finally, you will manage the REACH (Research & Engagement in the Arts, Culture & Humanities) Space, a social learning space for formal activities and informal networking that, in the 2023/2024 academic year, hosted over 250 activities.

This is a full-time post, and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

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

Essential criteria

1. Extensive experience of planning and delivering diverse events in a higher education environment
2. Extensive experience of advising academics with regards good events practice
3. Proven ability to build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders to deliver shared objectives
4. Experience of evaluating, monitoring and evidencing engagement / events activities
5. Excellent attention-to-detail
6. Self-motivated, with demonstrable ability to troubleshoot and problem solve independently
7. Understanding of higher education agendas around the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF)
8. Ability to prioritise and to multi-task

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of line management
2. Experience of managing a service
3. Experience of designing & delivering training

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 morning of Wednesday 12th February 2025.

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