Research Staff Development Officer

About Us

The Centre for Research Staff Development (CRSD) provides professional development support for research staff to achieve their potential, before, during and after their time at King’s, with active support from the most senior staff in the university.

Research Staff at King’s are postdoctoral staff, research assistants, technicians and teaching fellows, in fact all those other than PhD students who are engaged in research and who do not yet have an independent, permanent academic or managerial position.

We maintain King’s commitment to the Concordat to Support the Career Development for Researchers, the European Commission's HR Excellence in Research Award and the Technician Commitment Initiative.

The CRSD also actively supports research staff networks that operate across King’s, both at faculty and divisional level and maintains two-way communication with research staff, ensuring that it provides key information about events, careers, funding, and training and that research staff have platforms to contribute their views and feedback.

About the Role

We are looking for a new member of our team who has a strong interest in professional development, and specifically in helping a diverse body of world leading researchers to grow and be the best they can be, in university spaces and beyond. If this is you, you will work in a small team within the  Centre for Research Staff Development, reporting to the Research Staff Development Consultant.  Within the CRSD, you will ensure all administration related to the team’s activity is handled efficiently. This includes the smooth running of the CRSD’s professional development training programme, liaising, and building strong relationships with external facilitators and expert trainers, handling the organisation of CRSD events in-person and online, and monitoring the team’s budget.  

You will also work outside the CRSD with colleagues across King’s, servicing the Research Staff Representative Committee and the CRSD Oversight Group and building relationships with other professional services colleagues in all faculties and departments concerned with research and researchers. Along with maintaining accuracy in all forms of administrative monitoring across the team, you will quickly build positive working relationships with the rest of the CRSD and ensure communication across the team remains strong, to provide the best possible support for our research staff at King’s.   

The post is offered part-time (21 hours per week) with the option of flexibility around hours to suit the needs of the postholder and the role by agreement, and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30/06/26.

Essential criteria

• Existing or demonstrable ability to develop strong administration skills for tasks including; accurately setting up course listings, zoom meetings, maintaining the related monitoring, and the smooth planning and execution of events/training courses. 
• Excellent time management, with the ability to organise and plan effectively across competing priorities. 
• Strong attention to detail with methodical, exacting standards of written and numerical accuracy. 
• Demonstrable IT experience, especially across all Microsoft packages, including ability to use formulae in Excel.  
• Basic awareness of the research environment within Higher Education.
• Ability to set up and/or manage budget reconciliation, purchase orders, invoicing and procurement processes. 
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide variety of colleagues across a large and complicated institution and with external collaborators.  
• Positive attitude towards providing a good service to others including a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. 

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