Social Mobility & Widening Participation Officer

About us:

The King’s community is dedicated to the service of society. King’s Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.

Within the Social Mobility & Widening Participation Department we believe all young people should be able to have high expectations for their future. This means equal access to education and career opportunities. We run programmes that aim to empower young people from under-represented backgrounds to access and succeed at university.

We are part of the Students & Education Directorate, a collection of wide-ranging professional services in place to support King’s students and their education. As a directorate we manage the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond, to ensure a coherent and seamless student experience and effective administrative processes, working closely with King’s faculties to do so.

About the role:

The Social Mobility and Widening Participation Officer supports the team to improve access to King’s and other universities for underrepresented groups. The post-holder will provide administrative and delivery support to deliver outreach interventions and initiatives, undertaking financial and data tasks, and liaising with internal and external stakeholders.

For more information about the department’s work please visit  https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/social-mobility  

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking for a career with social impact, and who wish to utilise their skills and expertise in administration to make a difference to young people locally and nationally.

We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), 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 and experience:

Essential criteria

• Relevant work experience and/or education: We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in education, or charities. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other.  
• Experience of undertaking and completing projects which require administrative and organisational skills 
• Experience working or volunteering with children or young people 
• Ability to communicate complicated and specialist information orally and in writing to team members and programme participants 
• Ability to work with others to deliver project aims and overcome challenges  
• Ability to decide own pattern of work and manage own workload and resources 
• Ability to gather and manipulate data so that it can be interpreted by yourself and others

Desirable criteria

• Educated to degree or foundation degree level 
• Ability to coach or train others to undertake specific tasks and give clear direction on desired outcomes 
• Understanding of the widening participation agenda and/or the role of higher education in social mobility.

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