Project Manager - MACC HUB

Location: Strand Campus

Contact details: Lyanne Wylde. lyanne.wylde@kcl.ac.uk

About us

Based centrally on the Strand Campus of King’s College London, the Department of Geography is prioritises multi-disciplinary scholarship that seeks to address and resolve the most pressing issues facing our world today. The Department draws together expertise in the physical and social science dimensions of climate change, water resources, urban sustainability, risk and resilience and emerging economies.  

The Department of Geography sits in the School of Global Affairs. The School is a dynamic hub of multi-disciplinary scholarship that seeks to address the most pressing issues facing our world today. We wish to appoint a Project Manager to work alongside the project lead to run the UKRI funded Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) Hub. 

At King’s, we are deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practices into all our activities so that the university is an inclusive, welcoming, and inspiring place to work and study, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. King’s offers inclusive benefits to staff, including flexible working, Enhanced Parental Leave, funds for Parents and Carers, and the potential to join community staff networks.  

About the role

The purpose of the role is to establish procedures for, and manage the operations of, a new £5 million, three-year knowledge exchange and coordination Hub on adaptation to climate change in the UK. Funded by Defra, the Met Office and the UK research councils, the Hub draws together academics and practitioners from across the UK nations to advance action on adaptation to climate change and build a more aspirational vision of a well-adapted UK.

The manager will form part of the KCL-based secretariat for the Hub, and will work closely on a day to day basis with the Hub Director and a post-doctoral research fellow in coordinating the activities of the hub and achieving its vision. Key to this role will be partnership working with the knowledge exchange organisations and universities that compose the Hub, and drawing in and managing relationships with the wider adaptation community within the UK. The manager will be responsible for reporting to the funder, overseeing the budget, and establishing and overseeing Hub governance structures and monitoring and evaluation.

The Hub manager will form part of an exciting team of researchers in the geography Department at King’s College London working on issues related to adaptation to climate change. The role would suit somebody who enjoys relationship building and management and has a passion for advancing action on climate change and social justice.

The hub manager will report to the head of school administration and the project lead and will be responsible for recruiting and managing two fixed term professional services staff: a comms lead and a grant lead. 

This is a full time post and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30 April 2027

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