Business Development Officer

(Arts and Sciences) - Maternity Cover

Salary: The salary will be paid at Grade 5, £37,332 - 42,099 per annum including London Weighting Allowance

Building and Campus: Virginia Wolf Building, Strand Campus

Job description

King’s Professional & Executive Development (KPED) is a specialist business development unit enabling King’s Faculties to design, develop and deliver Professional Education to a wide international and domestic audience. In face-to-face, blended or online modalities, our open and bespoke programmes include Continuing Professional Development, Executive Education, Capacity Building Training, Educational Consultancy and increasingly, stackable micro-credentials. We are a small, dynamic team with ambitious growth targets in an exciting area of development for King’s. 

The Business Development Officer will support the development and delivery of the KPED portfolio, they will have experience working directly with clients, familiarity working with budgets and contracts, experience with supporting programme or project delivery and have a background in a fast-paced office environment. The post is suitable for a collaborative and proactive individual who enjoys working in teams to effectively deliver excellent service to internal and external stakeholders. 

The Business Development Officer will be working in a team to create effective mechanisms to support and enable such activities to 1) run efficiently 2) run at a profit and 3) build on King’s international brand. The role will involve a mixture of administration, operational and data management, client relationship building, business development, and project management support. 

The role is primarily based at King’s Strand Campus; however, the post holder may be required to travel to other locations on occasion, be prepared to attend events in the evening/at weekends. As part of King’s hybrid working policy, all team members can work remotely for part of the week if they wish to do so. 

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 12 months 

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent 

Closing date: 7.4.2024

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