Institute Manager

About the role

We are seeking an experienced and highly organised operations manager to join the Cicely Saunders Institute (CSI), within the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) at King’s College London. This is an exciting opportunity for anyone looking for a fixed-term role or a developmental secondment within the University.

As Institute Manager, you will oversee the Institute’s operational and research functions, including finance, HR, compliance, data management, and strategic planning, working closely with the Institute Director, Institute Executive Clinical Academic Group and Faculty leadership to ensure resource efficiency and regulatory compliance. You will co-ordinate the Institute’s administrative team and support the integration of the CSI’s clinical and academic teams, as well as its Information and Support Centre, to ensure the administrative systems and structure support the multi-strand activities of the Institute. You will also provide research support across NMPC, liaising with the University’s Research Management & Innovation Directorate (RMID) to enhance impact, manage REF preparations, and analyse trends in outputs and income.

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract (maternity cover) until 02 July 2027 or until return of the substantive postholder.

King’s considers the professional and personal development of our staff a priority and we offer an inspiring range of opportunities for training and career progression. Our Organisational Development team provide in-house and bespoke learning.

Location: Hybrid – minimum of 2 days on campus (Denmark Hill and Waterloo).

About You

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

Essential criteria

• Graduate qualification or equivalent
• Experience of managing budgets and monitoring and acting on financial performance
• Expert understanding of the Research Grants Application process including highly complex grant applications and the Research Excellence Framework (REF)
• Excellent communication skills, and adept at engaging with sponsors, stakeholders and wider audiences, including with senior colleagues and externals, adapting message, style and manner as appropriate
• Proven IT proficiency in using spreadsheets, databases and designing PowerBI dashboards to analyse and present information
• Experience in managing projects, from inception through to transition to business-as-usual
• Ability to collect and synthesise complex data from a variety of sources to develop new insights and perspectives, sometimes on short timescales
• Confident working in multidisciplinary teams, and building strong working relationships to drive effective outcome

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and experience of regulatory compliance within the higher education sector and applied health and care research
• Experience within the Higher Education sector or similarly complex organisation and understanding of the strategic context in which the Faculty operates
• Experience in Higher Education of the knowledge and understanding of what it takes to manage and run effective professional services teams, processes, and procedures across finance, human resources, research management, technical and general operations
• Demonstrable project management and organisational skills, with proven ability to work to deadlines, manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritise activities effectively, while ensuring a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Previous experience of line management

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