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Research Community Engagement Manager

King's College London - Open Research, within Libraries & Collections

Location: London
Salary: £41,386 to £48,414 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance of £4,000
Hours: Full Time, Part Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract
Placed On: 16th March 2023
Closes: 16th April 2023
Job Ref: 064445
 

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About Us

The King’s community is dedicated to the service of society. King’s Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.

Libraries & Collections comprises four departments: Education & Learning, Research & Impact, Service Design & Delivery, along with Business Operations. We are part of the Students & Education Directorate, which manages the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond.

This role is based in the Open Research team, responsible for working with King’s researchers in an exciting, complex, and fast-moving area. The team works to support the curation and dissemination of scholarly outputs – comprising support for open accessing publishing, REF exercises, research data management, and copyright; alongside an interlending service and wide range of subscription-based Library resources – including journals, databases, and ebooks, to support learning, teaching, and research. 

About the Role

The purpose of the Research Community Engagement Manager is to oversee engagement activity with King’s world-leading research community – specifically, supporting the evolution of open research practices and culture.  The postholder will be embedded with the Library’s Open Research team, identifying opportunities to communicate with researchers and other stakeholders, ensuring that they are informed, consulted, and enthused about opportunities and developments in open research. The Research Community Engagement Manager will be responsible for designing a programme of advocacy, community engagement, and publicity, to promote and embed open research practices across the College, helping to implement this alongside subject matter expert Library colleagues.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates who wish to employ their experience and expertise in community engagement, marketing and communications, planning and delivering campaigns and events. 

All Libraries & Collections staff are encouraged to take responsibility for their own performance and development, through agreeing clear objectives, maintaining professional awareness, participating in professional networks and reflecting on own performance. We expect all managers to role-model a positive, proactive, flexible and committed approach that inspires others.

You will be required to participate in frontline services as required, including contributing towards a Manager on Duty rota for evening and weekend working.

This post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract for 2 years.

This is a full-time post, but we welcome applications from candidates seeking a flexible work pattern within our necessary service operating hours.

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