Senior Institute Manager (King’s Institute for Population Health)

at  Kings College London

Job id: 094809. Salary: £51,974 to £61,021 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 23 August 2024. Closing date: 08 September 2024.
Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Department: Department of Population Health Sciences.
Contact details: Prof Josip Car. josip.car@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Guy’s Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.
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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
The Senior Institute Manager will be appointed within the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine to work jointly with King’s Health Partners and with other faculties across King’s College London. You will lead all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the new multidisciplinary university level King’s Institute for Population Health to achieve the Institute’s and partnership’s strategic growth and sustainability.
You will manage and deliver a wide range of business operations to support the Institute’s inception, support the development of research portfolio and strategic education initiatives delivered through College’s Faculties. 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.
You will be proactive with outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong working relationships with colleagues across the College, King’s Health Partners, nationally and internationally, e.g. with the WHO. You will have significant experience in supporting major research initiatives, writing of large, ideally multidisciplinary research projects, managing financial processes, and be highly organised and numerate, with strong written and verbal communication skills. You will possess an entrepreneurial spirit, strong teamwork skills, and a proactive, can-do attitude.
King’s considers the professional and personal development of our staff a priority and offers an inspiring range of opportunities for training and career progression. Our Organisational Development team provides in-house and bespoke learning opportunities.
This is a full-time hybrid post (35 hours per week) with an expectation of spending 2 to 3 days per week working on site. You will be offered a fixed term contract until 31 July 2026.
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience of managing operations in a Higher Education institution
• Significant experience of managing budgets and monitoring, reporting and acting on financial performance
• Significant experience of research grant applications processes, procedures and compliance requirements
• Excellent communication skills, including ability to draft documents and correspondence, build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders and participate in senior management meetings
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively, work with efficiency and to tight deadlines
• Ability to work independently, proactively, and flexibly, using own judgement and initiative when appropriate
• Competent ability to understand and analyse complex information and present data to a range of audiences
• Committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, actively addressing areas of potential bias

Desirable criteria

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

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