Senior Impact and Knowledge Exchange Officer

About us:

The Faculty of Arts & Humanities is distinctive in representing academic excellence across a diverse range of disciplines, from longer established disciplines such as Philosophy, Classics, & English, to more recently established fields including Digital Humanities & Film.

About the role:

The Impact and Knowledge Exchange (IKE) team supports the entire Faculty of Arts and Humanities with research impact, knowledge exchange and other types of engagement activities to foster an environment that shapes and sustains the public impact of the Faculty’s research to deliver positive societal change across London, the UK and internationally.

As a member of the IKE team, the role holder will:

• Provide operational support for a range of internally and externally funded engagement and impact activities, supporting the capture and dissemination of learning and good practice from these activities
• Design bespoke, and contribute to existing, professional development activities aimed at enhancing engagement and impact literacy amongst researchers from senior academics to post graduate researchers
• Support the delivery of the faculty’s REF strategy, ensuring high quality support for impact case studies, enabling their rigorous evolution
• Provide expert advice to researchers at all levels across the Faculty in how to build impactful, mutually beneficial engagement partnerships with cultural and civil society organisations for example, to support high quality grant proposals
• Maintain links with other external facing Faculty and College teams including the King’s Engaged Research Network, the Entrepreneurship Institute, the London team, the Doctoral School for the Arts and the Humanities, Research Culture and Research Development to maximise opportunities for impactful engagement activities.

As a key part of the IKE team, the role holder will provide support for the Faculty’s integrated impact, engagement and knowledge exchange agendas, curating spaces and opportunities of connection, collaboration and engagement that generate ideas, learning and activities aimed at making a real difference in the world.

The role holder will be responsible to the Faculty’s Senior Impact & Knowledge Exchange Manager and will coordinate Research Impact Development Assistants (RIDAs) projects with academics.

This is a full-time (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. Please ensure that your cover letter addresses each of the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. Applications submitted without a cover letter will not be considered.

Essential criteria

1. Undergraduate or professional qualifications/experience in a relevant discipline or work area (e.g. arts, culture, humanities, public engagement)
2. Experience of project managing diverse programmes of impactful engagement activities that cross organisational boundaries
3. Experience in delivering engagement / impact-related professional development opportunities
4. Experience of research support, preferably with some understanding of research impact and knowledge exchange & their respective exercises (REF and KEF)
5. Excellent information management (SharePoint & Excel) and administrative skills including note taking & minuting
6. Excellent collaboration skills, able to communicate with, and influence, a wide variety of internal & external stakeholders
7. Experience of advising researchers diplomatically and professionally in how to build and evaluate impactful, mutually beneficial engagement partnerships and activities with cultural & civil society organisations
8. Effective team player, resilient under pressure, capable of balancing competing priorities

Desirable criteria

1. Experience in the evaluation of research projects and understanding of how to translate different evidence types into a compelling narrative.
2. Familiarity with the funding landscape for HEI’s

Interviews are due to be held in September.

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