Senior Project Officer

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.  

About the role

The successful candidate will have proven experience of effective project coordination, ideally for research projects and experience working in a research administration role, ideally in Higher Education. The role requires experience managing budgets, overseeing and recording financial expenditure as well as managing multiple projects simultaneously with competing deadlines. It also necessitates the successful candidate to have the capacity to develop and deliver strategy and action plans that take forward agreed priorities. Evidence of being self-motivated, proactive and able to work independently with limited supervision will be essential.

The role is 0.5FTE (17.5 hours per week) which can be distributed flexibly. The post-holder is expected to attend in-person for a minimum one day per week at the Denmark Hill campus

This is a part-time post and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30.04.28.

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 1 day per week on Denmark Hill campus 

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