Project Officer

at  Kings College London

Job id: 105307. Salary: £38,232 - £40,880 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 24 January 2025. Closing date: 03 February 2025.
Business unit: Fundraising & Supporter Development. Department: Strategy & Planning (Fundraising).
Contact details: Ellie Stone. ellie.stone@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Strand Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.
About Us
King’s College London’s Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement (P&A) directorate is proud to work with colleagues across the university and its health partners to help them serve society through world-leading education, research and healthcare. Our work also includes a partnership with the Maudsley Charity in support of children’s mental health initiatives between the university’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and the South London & Maudsley NHS Trust.
We are a committed team that brings together fundraisers working across different channels, alongside colleagues who promote King’s College London’s engagement with its worldwide alumni community. Our work is underpinned and enhanced by a range of dedicated professionals in supporting areas covering proposition development, supporter engagement, supporter operations and business operations.
We have an impressive, well-established track record of success in securing support that allows the university and partners to deliver on their missions. This includes our global, award-winning World Questions: King’s Answers campaign, which set the standard in the sector and enabled us to raise substantial funds to help tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. Ambitious and innovative, the team has won awards such as a CASE Platinum Award for Fundraising and a CASE Gold Award for Donor Relations and Stewardship. We are strongly values-driven with a focus on sustaining an excellent and supportive culture, which we see as key to creating a successful team that can support the university and its partners in making a real and positive difference to the world we live in.
More on King’s College London
King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. The university is dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place. Through its commitment to exceptional education, impactful research and genuine service to society, King’s College London is creating positive change in its communities, both in London and on the world stage. The Strategic Vision 2029 looks forward to King’s College London’s 200th anniversary in 2029 and sets out ambitious plans in five key areas:
Educating the next generation of change-makers
Challenging ideas and driving change through research
Giving back to society through meaningful service
Working with our local communities in London
Fostering global citizens with an international perspective
About the role
In this role, you will project manage and help to deliver various fundraising and alumni communications projects. This includes our flagship alumni magazine InTouch.
You will support and partner with colleagues across Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement, managing timelines, processes and documentation to ensure that projects are delivered on time and to expected standards.
You will also play a key role in reviewing project objectives, by tracking project KPIs, deliverables and supporting evaluation of projects.
The projects this post holder will work on will give them insight into a wide range of academic and philanthropic work across King’s and beyond. In this role, you will to help amplify the ways King’s and King’s alumni are making a difference to some of the world’s biggest challenges.
As King’s moves towards a live fundraising campaign period, this is an exciting time to join this ambitious and creative Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement team.
This is a full time post 35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract. P&A has a hybrid working approach, with a minimum of 40% of time in the office. Typically, this equates to two days per week, but we’re very happy for colleagues to be in more frequently if they so wish.
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of and experience in successfully applying project management tools and methodologies
• Detail-oriented and thorough – highly motivated to keep good records
• Excellent communication skills: verbal, written and presentations
• Monitoring progress against targets, applying insights and knowledge to improve future performance
• Confidence in building collaborative relationships at all levels, across organisational boundaries, demonstrating tact and negotiating sensitively
• Comfortable giving and receiving constructive and effective feedback – both on performance and specific outputs
• Team player – able to use initiative and judgement to contribute to the wider team’s goals
• Confident using various programmes and tools to enhance output

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of UK charity sector or Higher Education
• Ability to understanding a project’s role within an organisation’s strategic priorities
• Previous experience of working within a communications team or on external-facing communications projects
• Understanding of DEI principles and how to embed them within project planning, in particular comms campaigns

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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 are open to discussing flexible working arrangements, including part-time, compressed hours and/or job shares, as appropriate.
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. Applications with no supporting statement will not be considered.
To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.
We offer the opportunity of an “Ask Us Anything” Teams call on 28 February at 12.30pm. During this call you will be able to ask any questions you might have about the role, the selection process, our department, our core values and work culture, our current hybrid work policy, or simply listen to others’ questions. To join please email ellie.stone@kcl.ac.uk
This roles with have two interview stages, a standard skills-based interview followed (for up to two appointable candidates) by a Core Values interview.
First stage interviews are due to be held on the morning of 11 February and afternoon of 12 February, with 14 February as a secondary option. Core Values interviews are due to be held on 19 February.
We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK

Please refer the Job description for details