Job id: 092927. Salary: £51,974 – £61,021 including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 19 July 2024. Closing date: 04 August 2024.
Business unit: Social Science & Public Policy. Department: School of Global Affairs School Office.
Contact details: Lyanne Wylde. lyanne.wylde@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Strand Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.
About us
Based centrally on the Strand Campus of King’s College London, the Department of Geography is prioritises multi-disciplinary scholarship that seeks to address and resolve the most pressing issues facing our world today. The Department draws together expertise in the physical and social science dimensions of climate change, water resources, urban sustainability, risk and resilience and emerging economies.
The Department of Geography sits in the School of Global Affairs. The School is a dynamic hub of multi-disciplinary scholarship that seeks to address the most pressing issues facing our world today. We wish to appoint a Project Manager to work alongside the project lead to run the UKRI funded Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) Hub.
At King’s, we are deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practices into all our activities so that the university is an inclusive, welcoming, and inspiring place to work and study, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. King’s offers inclusive benefits to staff, including flexible working, Enhanced Parental Leave, funds for Parents and Carers, and the potential to join community staff networks.
About the role
The purpose of the role is to establish procedures for, and manage the operations of, a new £5 million, three-year knowledge exchange and coordination Hub on adaptation to climate change in the UK. Funded by Defra, the Met Office and the UK research councils, the Hub draws together academics and practitioners from across the UK nations to advance action on adaptation to climate change and build a more aspirational vision of a well-adapted UK.
The manager will form part of the KCL-based secretariat for the Hub, and will work closely on a day to day basis with the Hub Director and a post-doctoral research fellow in coordinating the activities of the hub and achieving its vision. Key to this role will be partnership working with the knowledge exchange organisations and universities that compose the Hub, and drawing in and managing relationships with the wider adaptation community within the UK. The manager will be responsible for reporting to the funder, overseeing the budget, and establishing and overseeing Hub governance structures and monitoring and evaluation.
The Hub manager will form part of an exciting team of researchers in the geography Department at King’s College London working on issues related to adaptation to climate change. The role would suit somebody who enjoys relationship building and management and has a passion for advancing action on climate change and social justice.
The hub manager will report to the head of school administration and the project lead and will be responsible for recruiting and managing two fixed term professional services staff: a comms lead and a grant lead.
This is a full time post and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30 April 2027
About you
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
1. Relevant substantial experience in an HEI setting
2. Experience setting up and managing large scale projects involving multiple stakeholders
3. Experience in business planning, managing budgets (£1m+), recruitment, and delivering a varied programme of work
4. Experience of successful partnership working
5. Highly developed verbal and written communication, presenting and facilitation skills.
6. Strong administrative, organisational, and time management skills
7. Ability to act on personal initiative and take responsibility for own work, with a creative approach to problem solving
Desirable criteria
1. Post-graduate degree (MSc or PhD) in adaptation to climate change, resilience or environmental governance
2. A good understanding of the requirements of the research environment and research project management and governance.
3. Experience in working in a multidisciplinary context and working collaboratively across teams and departments
4. Good collaborative, inter-personal, influencing and persuasion skills
5. A high level of enthusiasm for the Hub’s aims
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 “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.
Further information
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.
Interviews are due to be held within two weeks of the closing date.
We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.
