Senior Institute Manager (King’s Institute for Population Health) - INTERNAL ONLY - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

Senior Institute Manager (King’s Institute for Population Health) - INTERNAL ONLY - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

THIS VACANCY IS OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY

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 its 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 (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31/07/2026