Head of Research Operations

Contact name and email for candidate queries

Richard Barnard (Richard.Barnard@kcl.ac.uk)

About us:

The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN). The IoPPN is a leading centre for mental health and neuroscience education and research in Europe.  The faculty operates across two main campuses at KCL, has internationally leading expertise and delivers renowned education and training programmes including 2 highly successful undergraduate and 20 postgraduate taught programmes and clinical training courses.

It produces more highly cited outputs (top 1% citations) on psychiatry and mental health than any other centre (SciVal 2023), and on this metric has risen from 16th (2014) to 4th (2023) in the world for highly cited neuroscience outputs. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), 90% of research at the IoPPN was deemed ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The Faculty employs over 1700 academic, research and professional services staff across three school alongside a central IoPPN organisational unit that supports central and core faculty services with the Dean & Director of Operations. More information about the IoPPN is available here at: www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/about

About the role:

The Head of Research Operations supports the IoPPN Director of Operations and Vice Dean (Research) on the development and implementation of Faculty research strategies, and associated policies in line with university requirements for Research Management & Innovation Directorate.

The post holder will be a professional specialist in research management, responsible for ensuring the Faculty provides high quality support across a full range of research services, including pre- and post-award and associated cost recovery; advice on funder compliance; research centres; open access. They will be responsible for setting the quality and development of research management across the Faculty, in close coordination with the various Schools’ Research teams (via the Schools’ Senior Research managers). They will be responsible for coordinating this with colleagues across the university. They will also be required to work with the Associate Dean of Doctoral Studies on the doctoral programmes within the faculty.

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 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.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and/or Occupational Health clearances.

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