Senior Student Experience Officer
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About the role
The role holder will work as part of the Student Experience Team providing essential support in delivering a programme of student engagement and student voice activities, events and initiatives that are focused on the students experience within our faculty.
The post supports projects such as student representation, coordinating student feedback opportunities, and communications, as well as supporting welcome to King's activity and other engagement opportunities. The role holder will be part of a team that seeks to continuously review and improve approaches and support mechanisms.
This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), 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. Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to coordinate a busy workload while prioritising effectively.
2. Excellent written and verbal communications skills
3. Proactive approach with ability to work independently and flexibly, using own judgement, initiative and discretion where necessary.
4. Ability to contribute effectively as part of a team, with a 'hands on' approach to working.
5. Methodical and thorough approach to work with a good eye for detail.
6. Strong influencing skills, ability to deal with a wide variety of people in a professional and assured manner and to build networks.
7. Excellent IT skills including MS Office, databases, business systems etc
Desirable criteria
1. Experience of managing changes in procedures and processes
2. Experience of organising or managing events
3. Experience of working in a HE institution
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.
We reserve the right to close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive. While the closing date may change, all adverts will close at 23:59 to allow sufficient time for applications to be submitted on that day.
We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as once we have closed a vacancy you will be unable to submit your application.
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