Clinical Sponsorship and Quality Lead

About us

Research and innovation are at the heart of King’s College London’s mission to make a positive difference in the world. The Research Management & Innovation Directorate (RMID) leads this ambition by shaping and enabling the university’s research and innovation agenda, ensuring an environment in which our researchers, professional staff and doctoral students can excel. This work is guided by King’s Strategy 2030, which emphasises academic excellence, real‑world impact, and a culture where research and innovation can truly thrive.

The Department of Research Governance, Ethics and Integrity (RGEI) plays a critical role in safeguarding the quality and credibility of King’s research. The department ensures that all research conducted across the university is safe, ethical, lawful and carried out to the highest standards of integrity and rigour. Our teams develop and deliver policies, systems, guidance, training and initiatives that support researchers in navigating ethical and regulatory requirements, enabling them to conduct high‑quality research with confidence while feeling supported and valued.

About the role

This is a new leadership role within the recently developed KCL Clinical Research Hub, co-led by the Department of Research Governance, Ethics and Integrity (RGEI), King’s Clinical Trials Unit (KCTU) and Research Pre-Award and Contracts.

This post will be based in the Research Governance Office (RGO), Department of RGEI, reporting to the Director of RGEI. The post holder will work closely with both the Director of KCTU and Director of Research Pre-Award and Contracts, and their teams, as part of hub working.

The Clinical Sponsorship and Quality Lead will play a central role in supporting King’s College London’s responsibilities as sponsor for clinical research. The postholder will ensure that sponsor obligations are clearly defined, consistently applied, and underpinned by robust and proportionate quality processes.

Working collaboratively across the teams involved in sponsorship activity, the postholder will provide senior coordination, quality oversight and expert guidance to help ensure that KCL‑sponsored CTIMP and Non‑CTIMP studies are appropriately governed, compliant, and supported by clear, efficient and effective processes. They will help promote a strong culture of good governance and quality and contribute to the continual improvement of sponsor systems and practices.

The role will have an early focus on supporting KCL’s transition from the co-sponsorship to sole‑sponsorship model and once this is completed will oversee the efficient and effective management of sole sponsorship, while maintaining strong working relationships with our partnering NHS R&D Partners, Joint Research Offices (SLaM/IoPPN and KCL/GSTT) and faculties.

This post will line manage the Research Governance Manager who in turn line manages the team of 6 Research Governance Co-Ordinators (clinical and non-clinical), and the Senior Medical Devices Specialist.

King’s adopts a hybrid working model of home and on campus working. The role holder will be based at the Lavington Steet Building, part of the King’s Waterloo Campus when on site.

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

We reserve the right to close the application process early in the event of a large volume of applications.

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