Business Development Officer

About us

King’s Professional & Executive Development (KPED) is a central directorate and business owner of Professional Education at King’s.  KPED work with King’s nine faculties to deliver professional education to a wide international and domestic audience, partnering to design, develop bespoke educational programmes in line with King’s Vision.  Our multimodal programmes include Continuing Professional Development, Executive Education, post-experience degrees and increasingly, stackable micro-credentials.  We are a small, high-powered team in an exciting area of growth and development for King’s College London.  Our portfolio is growing rapidly and expanding to include opportunities afforded through public tender, international educational consultancy, and market foresight.   

About the role

King’s Professional & Executive Development (KPED) is recruiting Business Development Officer who will work within the Business Development team and be responsible for supporting the development of the university’s professional education portfolio. The successful candidate will work across King’s faculties, liaising with external and internal clients and overseeing programme-related development. This will involve a variety of activities including business development, contract drafting, proposal & tender support, budget drafting and people and project associated administrative activities.  

KPED’s project portfolio is growing rapidly & expanding to include opportunities afforded through online and blended modalities.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting those effective mechanisms to enable such activities to:

1. run efficiently and mitigate risk
2. extend the King’s portfolio and
3. build King’s international brand. 

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 and may be required to undertake national & international travel. All team members can work remotely for part of the week if they wish to do so, subject to the demands of the post.

This is a full-time role 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 & experience:

Essential criteria

• Degree or equivalent level of qualification or some vocational experience
• Business development, external engagement, programme or project management experience in an educational setting; to include working with numbers & budgets
• Clear & concise communication skills appropriate to both internal & external audiences
• Excellent time management & organisational skills
• Knowledge or interest in drafting commercial contracts
• Excellent IT and presentation skills across the MS Office Suite
• Demonstrated analytical skills and the ability to process and explain information in a clear, concise manner
• Ability to work as part of a team & willingness to learn

Desirable criteria

• Experience of bid and proposal writing & public procurement processes
• Experience of reviewing commercial contracts
• Project management qualification and/or use of project management software/tools/CRM

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”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

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