Head of Global Mobility

Location: Strand Campus

Contact details: Tom Atterson - Associate Director (Global Mobility). tom.atterson@kcl.ac.uk

The Head of Global Mobility will lead and manage a team and be a subject matter expert in the key operational service area of Global Mobility, ensuring the senior team, and wider Directorate, are fully supported with effective processes and systems across a wide range of business and operational workstreams.

The Head of Global Mobility will have operational responsibility for a defined portfolio of education and student professional services, as a departmental lead within the Students and Education Directorate.

The Head of Global Mobility will work within and across teams and functions, engaging with a wide range of colleagues across King’s. They contribute and lead on activities which positively impact the student experience. This includes ensuring:

• Close working with their Associate Director, and across organisational boundaries, to identify and action opportunities to improve efficiency and consistency of service (or project) delivery
• Efficient resource utilisation and organisation of work resources within their department (or project)
• Proactive engagement with service users and stakeholders to facilitate mutually effective working relationships
• Their department (or project) embeds a culture of service, transparency and continuous improvement

The Head of Global Mobility will have an understanding of the priorities, cultures and pressures of a research-led university and of academic processes and the structure of the academic year.

The Head of Global Mobility provides senior operational management for all in the team, line-managing four Officers as well as providing counsel to the other Officers and Senior Officers.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to work in a close, centralised team that is both student- and external-facing and who wish to utilise their skills and expertise in student mobility programme administration, international relations and team leadership. This is an opportunity to grow your skills in managing in a complicated, necessarily reactive but collaborative environment.

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 will be offered on an indefinite contract.

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