Research Administrator

About Us

King’s College London  is a leading University with nine Faculties. As part of  King’s Health Partners, we have an excellent environment for health care interaction and a strong focus on mentoring and career development.

The 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) placed King’s applied and allied health research 1st for: overall proportion of research rated 4* (world-leading, the best mark possible), research papers rated 4*, impact rated 4*, environment rated 4*(joint), Grade Point Average and Power.  REF2021 rated as world-leading: 100% of our environment, 86% of our impact and 70% of our research overall. Over 95% of our research overall was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.

As of 2026, King’s is top-two in the world for Nursing and #1 in the UK for the 8th year in a row (QS world rankings). King’s produces more highly cited research outputs (top 1% citations) on palliative care than any other centre internationally (SciVal), and is second in the world on the same metric for nursing and midwifery. King’s is the largest provider of health care education in Europe.

The  Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) is based in the heart of central and south London. It includes the  Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, the premier Institute for Palliative Care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams.

Our applied clinical and health multidisciplinary research transforms therapies, the healthcare experience and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for. Our award-winning NMPC education programmes span pre-registration nursing and midwifery, and multidisciplinary post-graduate taught and research programmes.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and driven individual to work with Professor Katherine Sleeman and her research team to deliver the new Impact Centre for palliative and end of life care at the Cicely Saunders Institute. The post-holder will primarily provide administrative support to the Impact Centre for palliative and end of life care. The Impact Centre aims to transform care for people approaching the end of life by closing the gap between evidence and practice.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31st December 2029.

About You

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

Essential criteria

• Degree, preferably in relevant subject area
• Good written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to adapt communication as appropriate to the situation
• Good time management skills with ability to multi-task and prioritise and complete tasks within a set deadline
• Strong organisational and planning skills, with a proven ability to support delivery of projects
• IT literacy to high standard (word processing and typing skills, preparation of presentations and spreadsheets) with understanding of dealing with confidential information
• Excellent relationship building skills, such as with public members, researchers and external networks
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team including researchers, clinicians and patient and public members

Desirable criteria

• Administrative/secretarial qualification and experience
• Experience dealing with academic reports and manuscripts, including referencing

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