CDT Operations Officer

About us

The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in  Advanced Engineering for Personalised Surgery & Intervention (AE-PSI) launched in late June 2024 funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) together with co-investment from King’s College London and industrial and philanthropic partners. 

AE-PSI is one of the Doctoral Training Entities administered by the King’s Doctoral College and is based in FoLSM’s School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (BMEIS) with cross-faculty collaboration with the Departments of Engineering and Informatics in  NMES. AE-PSI’s ambition is to train 100+ doctoral students across five cohorts from Academic Years 2024-25 to 2028-29.

About the role

The multifaceted role of CDT Operations Officer spanning the functions of research operations and engagement is a new post expanding AE-PSI’s Professional Services team. The post holder will work closely with the Centre Manager as well as AE-PSI’s Deputy Director Operations in the day-to-day running of the CDT.

The CDT Operations Officer will support the management of doctoral students in the specialised context of a CDT offering 4-year funded studentships across two training pathways: MRes+PhD and MPhil+PhD. This will include the coordination of recruitment, onboarding, progress monitoring, and funding through to completion. It will also include engagement activities such as planning and running events, building and managing partnerships with external entities, and liaising with internal and external colleagues to draft and disseminate promotional materials and operational updates.

Priorities to support the recruitment of new students include developing an expansive pool of industry co-funded projects, collaborating with relevant Comms teams to attract diverse high-calibre applicants, streamlining admissions processes, and onboarding successful candidates. With an emphasis on student welfare, supporting current candidates includes delivering a bespoke doctoral education curriculum, hosting community-building events, and feeding the student voice into the development of the CDT through the AE-PSI Student Assembly. To ensure sustainable growth as well as the success of individual students, managing the budget requires monitoring expenditure from various funding sources while fostering strong collaboration with industrial and philanthropic partners.

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