Back to search results

Associate Director (Governance, Reporting and Portfolio Oversight)

King's College London - International

Location: London
Salary: £63,596 to £72,757 per annum including London Weighting Allowance
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 7th October 2024
Closes: 20th October 2024
Job Ref: 096128
 

About Us

IES is a new Directorate at King’s that brings together the expertise of teams engaging with communities and partners locally, national and globally. The Directorate provides strategic leadership for the university’s engagement at home and abroad, while providing a home for a portfolio of innovative programmes that generate and measure impact and serve the communities we work with and for. IES is home to some of King’s most innovative and impact-driven programming including Sanctuary, the Afe Babalola Centre for Transnational Education, King’s Volunteering, One King’s Impact, among others, as well as our civic and place-based engagement in London, and across the world.

We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector who can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role. 

About the Role

Reporting to the Director of Strategy & Operations, the Associate Director of Governance, Reporting and Portfolio Oversight will play a critically important role in overseeing the Directorate’s governance and reporting commitments. The role includes day-to-day management and oversight of IES governance, including responsibility for the work of the Partnerships Committee and Partnerships Advisory Group. The role holder will monitor and provide oversight of the IES portfolio to support the directorate to monitor and report on key programmes, projects, and relationships and their associated risks, milestones, and deliverables.

IES brings together several high performing teams, and the role holder can expect autonomy over their time and ownership of work. You will be trusted for your capability and expertise but with plenty of support where needed. You will have line management responsibility for two project/programme managers and this role will provide an opportunity to develop relationships and work closely with colleagues across the wider university. Close working and engagement with colleagues across King’s will be central to success in this role especially those in faculties, King’s Portfolio Management team, Research Management and Innovation Directorate.

This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent
  • Experience and knowledge of programme and project management design and methods
  • Experience of successfully drawing on programme and/or project toolkits to bring coherence and control to a portfolio of work
  • Strong critical and analytical skills, able to provide actionable insight that helps inform decisions and plans
  • Understanding and experience in governance systems and processes; and organisational decision-making
  • Confidence in working with and in coordinating multidisciplinary teams, and building strong working relationships to drive effective outcomes
  • Excellent written, PowerPoint and verbal communication skills
  • Adept at engaging with sponsors and stakeholders, including with external and senior colleagues, and adapting message, style and manner as needed
  • Flexible, emotionally intelligent, and comfortable with ambiguity

Desirable criteria

  • Experience within the Higher Education sector or adjacent/similar sector and understanding of the strategic context we operate in
  • A recognised qualification in programme or project management 
We value your feedback on the quality of our adverts. If you have a comment to make about the overall quality of this advert, or its categorisation then please send us your feedback
Advert information

Type / Role:

Subject Area(s):

Location(s):

Job tools
 

PhD Alert Created

Job Alert Created

Your PhD alert has been successfully created for this search.

Your job alert has been successfully created for this search.

Ok Ok

PhD Alert Created

Job Alert Created

Your PhD alert has been successfully created for this search.

Your job alert has been successfully created for this search.

Manage your job alerts Manage your job alerts

Account Verification Missing

In order to create multiple job alerts, you must first verify your email address to complete your account creation

Request verification email Request verification email

jobs.ac.uk Account Required

In order to create multiple alerts, you must create a jobs.ac.uk jobseeker account

Create Account Create Account

Alert Creation Failed

Unfortunately, your account is currently blocked. Please login to unblock your account.

Email Address Blocked

We received a delivery failure message when attempting to send you an email and therefore your email address has been blocked. You will not receive job alerts until your email address is unblocked. To do so, please choose from one of the two options below.

Max Alerts Reached

A maximum of 5 Job Alerts can be created against your account. Please remove an existing alert in order to create this new Job Alert

Manage your job alerts Manage your job alerts

Creation Failed

Unfortunately, your alert was not created at this time. Please try again.

Ok Ok

Create PhD Alert

Create Job Alert

When you create this PhD alert we will email you a selection of PhDs matching your criteria.When you create this job alert we will email you a selection of jobs matching your criteria. Our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy apply to this service. Any personal data you provide in setting up this alert is processed in accordance with our Privacy Notice

Create PhD Alert

Create Job Alert

When you create this PhD alert we will email you a selection of PhDs matching your criteria.When you create this job alert we will email you a selection of jobs matching your criteria. Our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy apply to this service. Any personal data you provide in setting up this alert is processed in accordance with our Privacy Notice

 
 
More jobs from King's College London

Show all jobs for this employer …

More jobs like this
Join in and follow us

Browser Upgrade Recommended

jobs.ac.uk has been optimised for the latest browsers.

For the best user experience, we recommend viewing jobs.ac.uk on one of the following:

Google Chrome Firefox Microsoft Edge