Operations Officer (Research)

About Us

The School of Life Course & Population Sciences is one of six Schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. The School unites over 400 experts in women and children’s health, nutritional sciences, population health and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works: 91 per cent of our research submitted to the Subjects Allied to Medicine (Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences and Women's Health cluster) for REF was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across five Departments.  

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity within the School of Life Course and Population Sciences. We are seeking to appoint an experienced and highly motivated Operations Officer to provide research administration support to the School and its Research Manager.

The post holder will work closely with the School Research Manager and the Core Team to support pre-award processes such as grant applications, award acceptance and award set up across the various departments in the School. They will also support post-award processes such as providing guidance to our academics on eligible and ineligible costs on a grant, monitoring budgets, flagging up risks with the School Research Manager and finding solutions to funding issues.

The post holder will forge good working relationships with the Research Management and Innovation Directorate (RMID) and champion the use of KCL systems (in particular our research grants management system, Worktribe, and our finance system, KFin).

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

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

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level or relevant experience in grant management or similar areas of work (e.g. contracting, business development, finance/accounting etc.)
• Experience and/or knowledge of using databases, management information systems and Excel
• Experience of using research grants management systems (such as Worktribe, LUCRE, etc) and finance systems (such as Business World, Oracle, Agresso)
• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail, and the ability to follow guidance and instruction
• Excellent numeracy skills

Desirable criteria

• Experience of financial planning and monitoring, including preparing budgets, financial profiling, drafting business plans, and monitoring key performance indicators and risks
• Knowledge of the regulatory, policy and procedural context along with the challenges and opportunities faced by the Higher Education sector
• Knowledge of research practice and policy in health (bioscience / medicine)

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