Programme Officer at King’s College London

This role forms part of a busy Assessment team within the Faculty Education Services (Bioscience Education) department. It is responsible for providing a professional and quality service to both the students and academics of the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine for a large suite of Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, proactive administrator who is committed to providing an excellent assessment provision.  The successful applicant will provide administrative support across a range of assessment services.

The post holder will be expected to communicate with students and will interact with a wide range of academic and professional service staff from across the School and the University. The Faculty Education Service is a busy department; you will need to be highly motivated, with good time management and excellent attention to detail.

The post holder must be an excellent communicator able to present information clearly and concisely and disseminate information across varied levels. Applicants must have excellent IT skills, in particular Microsoft Excel and some experience of a student record system and/or VLE would be beneficial. The role holder will be expected to manage a varied workload often across competing priorities, requiring the ability to negotiate and influence to deliver an excellent and effective administrative service.

This role sits within the Faculty Education Services in FoLSM at our London Bridge campus – visit the King’s HR pages for more information.

Benefits

King’s provides an extensive and varied range of career-focussed training and on-the-job learning. We support staff to maintain a work/life balance, offer flexible working and parental leave opportunities, reduced membership rates for staff at gyms at three of our campuses, an Employee Assistance Programme which provides free, confidential advice on both home and work concerns as well as 30 days annual leave (plus Christmas closure days), an occupational pension scheme, season ticket loans and being part of the cycle to work scheme. Find out more on our Benefits pages.

We have two posts available on a fixed term basis until 30th November 2024

Both will be offered on a full time post

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication and presentation skills; demonstrable ability to present information clearly, accurately and concisely to diverse audiences  
• Excellent time management with the ability to organise, and plan effectively across competing priorities 
• Excellent attention to detail with methodical, exacting standards of written and numerical accuracy 
• Able to manage individual workload while working to deliver shared team service levels and objectives 
• Ability to make timely informed decisions, independently resolve problems and identify when to escalate risk 
• Ability to form professional networks and contribute positively to supporting change
• Previous HE or administrative experience
• Excellent IT experience, across all Microsoft packages; advanced excel user and experience of production of analytical data reporting 

Desirable criteria

• Degree or equivalent 
• Experience of programme governance and delivering professional committee servicing

Further Information

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.

This role does not meet the requirements of the Home Office & therefore we are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who require the right to work in the UK.