Knowledge Exchange Senior Officer

About us

This role is located within the REF, KEF & Research Impact team. We use our expertise to support research impact across all nine of King's faculties, and to deliver the processes that demonstrate to research funders and wider society the university's excellence in research and knowledge exchange.

The team is part of the Research Strategy & Performance Unit within the Research Management & Innovation Directorate (RMID). RMID enables world-class research at King’s by providing grant support, platforms and services that accelerate the work of King’s researchers.

About the role

Knowledge Exchange at King’s brings together universities, business, users of research & wider communities to ensure our research translates into societal impact. King’s has a long history of service to society and a strategic focus on being a civic university which serves to shape and transform. This role is a crucial part of ensuring our Knowledge Exchange activities are effective, impactful, and align with our strategic direction. The role supports essential work for our impact-related statutory returns.

The Knowledge Exchange Senior Officer supports the Knowledge Exchange Manager to enable the Knowledge Exchange processes & returns for King’s. They are responsible for identifying, collating and analysing relevant data, and for clearly communicating the outcomes with colleagues across the university. The Knowledge Exchange Senior Officer sits withing the wider REF, KEF and Research Impact team and supports elements of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) process and the Public and Community Engagement with Research team.

The role will co-ordinate the process for the university’s annual Higher Education Business & Community Interaction (HEBCI) Survey return.

They will also provide support for elements of the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) & REF returns, and help manage King’s Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF). They will co-ordinate and organise the Knowledge Exchange internal and external staff networks and act as secretariat for meetings. The Knowledge Exchange Senior Officer will operate across King’s, building relationships with colleagues including senior leaders.

This is a hybrid role, based in part from home with an expectation of regular in-office attendance when needed.

This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week) offered on a fixed-term contract for 12 months.

Interviews will be held week commencing 26th Jan 2026.

About You

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

Essential criteria

• Experience in handling large data sets & collecting and managing data, ideally in a Higher Education context.
• Excellent analytical skills, with ability to analyse and interpret complex information and present in an easily comprehensible way for a range of audiences, including senior leaders.
• Excellent IT skills, including database systems, spreadsheets & word processing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to develop and manage positive stakeholder relationships & influence others.
• Familiarity with the UK Higher Education research and knowledge exchange landscape, including awareness of key exercises in research performance (HEBCI, KEF & REF) and KE funding (HEIF).
• Ability to work autonomously to organise and prioritise a varied workload.

Desirable criteria

• Experience in coordinating committees including organising meetings, producing agendas & taking minutes.
• Previous involvement in HEBCI, KEF or REF processes and HEIF management.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role & the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

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