Senior Institute Manager

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About Us

The King's Institute for Population Health is a newly created institute hosted in the School of Life Course & Population Sciences, in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King's College London.

The Faculty is one of the largest and most successful centres for research and education in the UK, we benefit from extensive international and local partnerships that encourage innovative and progressive collaboration.

Research is core to what we do and how we educate. We are strategically aligned to King's Health Partners, bringing together academics and clinicians who are committed to ensuring efficient translation and adoption of research innovation into clinical practice.

The Faculty's mission is to deliver world leading education and research in the biomedical and health sciences. Our international reputation is well established: King's is positioned 12th globally in the 'Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health' disciplinary table by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022. The QS World University Rankings 2022 by Faculty position us 16th for Life Sciences and Medicine.

About The Role

This is a joint post between King's College London and King's Health Partners (KHP). The post holder will be appointed within the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine to work jointly with King's Health Partners (mostly through the KHP Director of Partnerships and Operations) and with other faculties across King's College London. The Senior Institute Manager will lead all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the new multidisciplinary university level King's Population Health Institute and its partnership initiatives with King's Health Partners (focusing on the strategic priority for population health). They will provide administrative support to achieve impact, strategic growth and sustainability for the Institute and its partnerships.

Working closely with the Institute's leadership, the post holder will network within and outside the Institute to fulfil its multidisciplinary mission and ensure impact - especially through working with King's Health Partners. This role is created at an exciting time for the University as it is expanding multidisciplinary opportunities. The post holder will manage and deliver a wide range of business operations to support the Institute's development of research portfolio and strategic education initiatives. Responsibilities include managing the Institute's budget, facilitating effective governance by monitoring and advising leadership on progress against KPIs, and leading the provision of management data for internal and external reporting.

The successful applicant will be proactive with outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong working relationships with colleagues across the University, King's Health Partners, nationally and internationally, e.g., with the WHO. They will have significant experience in supporting major research initiatives, writing of large, ideally multidisciplinary research projects/programmes, managing financial processes, including budget management, and be highly organised and numerate, with strong written and verbal communication skills. The ideal candidate will possess an entrepreneurial spirit, strong teamwork skills, and a proactive, can-do attitude.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term until 31/07/2028.

About You

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

Essential criteria

1. Demonstrable experience of leading and managing operations in a Higher Education institution, determining resource allocation and establishing standards.
2. Significant experience of managing budgets and monitoring, reporting and acting on financial performance.
3. Extensive experience of research grant applications processes, procedures and compliance requirements.
4. Excellent communication skills, including ability to draft documents and correspondence, build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders and participate in senior management meetings.
5. Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively, work with efficiency and to tight deadlines.
6. Ability to work independently, proactively, and flexibly, using own judgement and initiative when appropriate.
7. Competent ability to understand and analyse complex information and present data to a range of audiences.

Desirable criteria

1. Demonstrable experience of building an efficient and effective operational service, including contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.
2. Demonstrable experience of servicing and membership on senior level committees that have included a wide range of secretarial duties.
3. Ability to influence/lead others inclusively, whilst contributing effectively as part of a team with a 'hands-on' approach to working.

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

At King's, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university.

The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension.

We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination.

When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King's guidance.

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 person specification section of the job description. 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.

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