Senior Projects Officer (Accreditation)

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About us

King's Business School (KBS)is a top five rated business school for business and management studies in the UK.

As part of the World class King's College London the focus of the Business School is to develop bold ideas to tackle the world's major challenges. We foster the knowledge, confidence, and adaptability our students will need to be the right kinds of leaders for the economy and society.

As the school celebrates its 6th birthday, we continue to invest in achieving a wide range of Business School accreditations to identify areas for growth and encourage continuous improvement within the School.

The role sits within the Business Operations function and you will work in the Accreditation team to directly support the maintenance of the KBS accreditations alongside Business Operations colleagues.

About the role

The School holds a triple crown accreditation having AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS as well as other accreditations such as Small Business Charter and Bronze Athena Swan Award. The Senior Projects Officer (Accreditation) will play a crucial role in working alongside the Strategic Projects Manager (Accreditation) and the Associate Dean (Quality Assurance & Accreditation) to ensure effective implementation and coordination of the faculty's accreditation function.

The role involves working alongside multiple functions and stakeholders in the faculty (business operations, alumni, careers and external engagement) on multiple and varied activities, including collation of data for annual report submissions, overseeing and servicing the Accreditation Steering Group, supporting accreditation visits, and providing accreditation project support across the Business School. You will represent the Business School at relevant events, gain training in a wide variety of Quality Assurance and Accreditation processes and will contribute to coordinating additional projects across other faculty functions.

The ideal applicant will be confident at gathering, collating and presenting quantitative data in different formats, coordinating multiple and competing projects, and be confident communicating with internal and external stakeholders at all levels to deliver a quality project coordination function.

King's Business School embraces equality, diversity and inclusion. We attract students and staff from across the world, from many different backgrounds, with a variety of ethnicities, religions, and sexual and gender identities. We promote flexible working as a key enabler of inclusion. We particularly encourage and welcome applications from women, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, and from candidates who are LGBTQ+ and/or have a disability.

Benefits of working at King's:

King's College provide an extensive and varied range of career-focussed training and on-the-job learning as follows:

• We support staff to maintain a work/life balance,
• Flexible working and parental leave opportunities
• Reduced membership rates for staff at gyms at three of our campuses
• An Employee Assistance Programme which provides free, confidential advice on both home and work concerns
• 30 days annual leave (plus 4 Christmas closure days and bank holidays)
• An occupational pension scheme with generous employer contributions, and opportunity for additional personal contributions
• Season ticket loans and being part of the cycle to work scheme.

Full information on staff benefits: Staff Benefits - King's College London (kcl.ac.uk )

This is a full time (35 Hours per week) though a 0.8 role will be considered, and you will be offered a fixed term contract until February 2025

About you

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

Essential criteria

1. Excellent communication and written skills including ability to draft staff communications including minutes from Steering Group meetings

2. Excellent attention to detail for dealing with large amounts of qualitative, quantitative and numerical data and information

3. Excellent data analysis skills, with the ability to assimilate large and complex sets of information quickly and accurately

4. Proficient skills using IT and technology (including Microsoft platforms, survey tools and other online software) and the ability to learn new software systems such as Sharepoint and PowerBi

5. Experience of interpreting operational or technical information or processes and explaining these to a varied audience in a straightforward and engaging manner

6. Project coordination experience including the ability to plan and organise individual and project priorities, workload and timelines effectively

7. Commitment to continuous improvement, reviewing processes and propose improvements

8. Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of managing meetings or events for up to approx. 20-30 participants including planning and assisting during visits with external stakeholders

2. Experience of interpreting and / or developing data systems, tools or reports such as PowerBI or the ability to learn this skillset

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 Thursday 7th November.

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