Cluster Manager (PROMISE Population Health Improvement Cluster)

Contact details: Dr Jayati Das-Munshi. jayati.das-munshi@kcl.ac.uk

Location: Denmark Hill Campus. 

In April 2024, IoPPN, King’s College London will establish a national Population Health Improvement Cluster (PHIC) with a focus on mental health, funded by UKRI. This will be one of four research themes focussing on mental health, and is part of a new national research network, funded by UKRI (Population Health Improvement UK).   

This is a strategically important development for KCL and involves partnerships across King’s and with national and non-academic collaborators. Our major partner for this initiative will be with local government (Thrive LDN) and the Cluster will be a disseminated UK-wide partnership spanning 10+ universities and other organisations across the country, alongside people with lived experience. This is an exciting interdisciplinary initiative which will require all members of this emerging network to work together with an open mindset, with a view to understanding and addressing the inequities which underlie mental ill health nationally. 

The Cluster Manager will work closely with the Co-Directors on strategy, planning, and delivery of the Cluster’s aims. Under the overall direction of the Co-Directors, the Cluster Manager will provide high-level management of all non-academic Cluster activities and day-to-day operations, including oversight of budgets, organisation of events and meetings, delivery of internal and external reports, support for grant applications, and communications and engagement with external partners. The Cluster Manager will also work closely with programme and other leads in the Cluster to support the delivery of research programmes, career development and capacity building activities, and engagement and impact work.

The Cluster Manager will line manage the Senior Project Officer (PROMISE) at KCL and will also work closely with a support team at Thrive LDN, to ensure impact, engagement and networking activities of the cluster are well coordinated. The role will suit a motivated and organised individual with a high-level knowledge of funder policies (especially UKRI) and university procedures in relation to research grant administration. You will demonstrate an ability to clearly articulate policies and processes and build strong working relationships with professional service and research staff within the Cluster as well as the wider Schools and Faculty PS research support teams and the College’s Research Management and Innovation Directorate (RMID). 

As this role will be supporting a large national disseminated network, the post-holder will be expected to travel to partner sites in London and other parts of the UK with occasional overnight stays.

The post-holder will be expected to work on campus 2 – 4 days per week (in agreement with the Line Manager)

This post will be offered on a full-time, fixed term contract until 31st March 2028.

Please contact jayati.das-munshi@kcl.ac.uk for any informal queries about this role.

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