Senior Business Development Manager

About us 

The Faculty of Social Sciences & Public Policy is seeking to recruit a Senior Business Development Manager. This is an exciting new role that will provide a focal point across the faculty to support our community to expand its professional education and industrial engagement, working across disciplines.  

The Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy at King’s is one of the largest UK university communities for social research and education. The faculty has a number of strategically important projects underway which are closely aligned with the broader King’s Vision 2029 agenda.

SSPP embraces equality, diversity and inclusion. We attract students and staff from across the world, from many different backgrounds, with a variety of ethnicities, religions, and sexual and gender identities. We promote flexible working as a key enabler of inclusion. We particularly encourage and welcome applications from women, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, and from candidates who are LGBTQ+ and/or have a disability. 

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Business Development Manager to implement the faculty’s strategy and business plan for professional education, and to develop the faculty’s portfolio and proposition. The role-holder will work in partnership with the academic leadership team for professional education, and with Professional Services in the College.  

We are looking for an individual with excellent skills in building internal networks, engaging private, public and third sector organisations, and a track record in income generation.

The main purpose of the role will be to develop a robust pipeline of stakeholder engagement, focused on income generation, portfolio diversification, impact and enterprise that aligns to the faculty and King’s College London’s strategy and operations.

This is a hybrid working role, where the role-holder will spend part of their working week on campus, and part of the week working remotely. It is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a permanent contract.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience: 

Essential criteria

• Proven skills and experience in business development and income generation and/or competitive grant/funding capture. 
• Demonstrable experience in external engagement with private, public and third sector organisations, and ability to build internal networks across a large, complex organisation. 
• Highly effective communication skills attuned to audience requirements and delivered in different formats. 
• Significant experience of leading and managing organisational change. 
• Excellent task management skills and proven ability to use initiative, prioritise workloads for self and others and respond positively to competing demands and deadlines. 
• Highly capable in financial and data literacy, managing budgets, risks, and performance against metrics 
• Evidence of continuous professional development & a strong commitment to equality and diversity within the workplace.

Desirable criteria

• Prior experience in a higher education administration environment. 
• Knowledge and understanding of the Professional Education marketplace and current trends, particularly in the sphere of social value, impact and enterprise. 
• Knowledge of market intelligence gathering and marketing. 

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click the 'Apply' button, above. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

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