Research Operations Manager

About us

Based on the Strand campus in central London, the Research Operations team supports the four Humanities departments within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. The Faculty of Arts & Humanities is committed to ensuring all of our researchers have the opportunity to develop and succeed.  This role presents an exciting opportunity for you to be part of the research operations team working on REF, research engagement and with PGRs.

About the role

Humanities is a grouping of Classics, History, Philosophy and Theology & Religious Studies within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. The purpose of the role is to take a lead role in planning, organisation and delivery of administration for research activity in in line with the Research Strategy for the Faculty of A&H; to provide ongoing support for the development of the Faculty’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission; to line manage professional services staff within the Cluster’s research function; to oversee the administration of Postgraduate Research (PGR) student processes within the Cluster.

You will work closely with the Head of Research Operations, other Faculty research support staff and with the Research, Management & Innovation Directorate (RMID) and other College Research Management teams to ensure that effective communication takes place to deliver a seamless research administration service to staff and students.

This is a full-time post, fixed-term post until 11 August 2026.

For internal candidates this may be approached as a secondment opportunity. It is expected that business need will require the postholder to work on campus for at least two days per week.

About you

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

Essential criteria

• Experience in UK Higher Education administration
• Knowledge or experience of the REF
• Knowledge or experience of working with PhD students
• Knowledge or experience of working with budgets
• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to multitask and perform under pressure
• Excellence in distilling information and presenting to an academic audience
• Staff supervision or management

Desirable criteria

• Proactive approach to management
• Working with data management
• Experience in compliance
• Experience of line management

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

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

Applicants should submit a PDF document outlining their relevant skills and experiences against each criteria in the job description, using those criteria as headings.  If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

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