Assistant Business Development Manager

Job description

King’s Skilled & Govt Growth (KPED) is a specialist enterprise improvement unit enabling King’s Colleges to ship Skilled Training to a large worldwide and home viewers. We associate with all colleges to design, develop and ship open and bespoke academic programmes according to King’s Training Technique.  In face-to-face, blended or on-line modalities, our programmes embrace Persevering with Skilled Growth, Govt Training and more and more, stackable micro-credentials.  We’re a small, high-powered workforce with bold progress targets in an thrilling space of improvement for King’s Faculty London.

Because of inside promotion, KPED is now in search of to recruit a 3rd Assistant Enterprise Growth Supervisor who will work carefully with the Enterprise Growth Managers (Arts & Sciences and Well being) and Undertaking Officers (Arts & Sciences and Well being) and be answerable for selling, managing and delivering the college’s Skilled and Govt Training portfolio. The profitable candidate will liaise with exterior and inside purchasers and oversee programme-related improvement, together with contract administration and efficiency, advertising, budgets, and related administrative actions.

KPED’s venture portfolio is rising quickly and increasing to incorporate alternatives afforded by way of on-line and blended modalities. The submit holder will probably be answerable for creating efficient mechanisms to help and allow such actions to 1) run effectively 2) run at a revenue and three) construct on King’s worldwide model.

The position is based at King’s Strand Campus; nonetheless, the submit holder could also be required to journey to different places once in a while, be ready to attend occasions within the night/at weekends and could also be required to undertake nationwide and worldwide journey. As a part of King’s trial of hybrid working, all workforce members can work remotely for a part of the week if they want to take action.

This submit will probably be provided on a fixed-term contract for 14 months

It is a full-time  submit – 100% full time equal

Key tasks

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

• Handle a portfolio of on-going tasks, protecting social sciences disciplines, requiring knowledgeable multi-tasking, price range and venture administration expertise every day. 
• Keep skilled inside and exterior relationships with stakeholders that meet the college’s core values and proactively set up efficient working relationships. 
• Hunt down, critically assess and consider new alternatives according to the college’s core values.  
• Conduct contract critiques for brand new programmes and purchasers and liaise with the Enterprise Growth Managers (Arts & Sciences and Well being) as wanted on any contract negotiations. 
• Handle a portfolio of on-going tasks, throughout the humanities, social sciences and well being disciplines, requiring knowledgeable multi-tasking and venture administration expertise. 
• Work with the Enterprise Growth Managers, Head of Enterprise Growth and colleagues to make sure enterprise plans align with school plans and goal sectors to be able to develop the King’s Skilled Training programme portfolio. 
• Help with the facilitation of educational and consumer change to develop bespoke modern programmes. 

ANALYSIS AND REPORTING

• Consider the efficiency of portfolio programs and report often on the revenue and expenditure of every programme to the Head of Enterprise Growth or designated individual. 
• Develop advertising and communications materials resembling articles, case research and options to advertise particular programmes and the work of KPED, each internally throughout the college and externally to earlier purchasers and new prospects. 
• Create and handle budgets for brand new tasks and conduct monetary reporting on the present portfolio. 
• Develop and implement KPED’s marketing strategy together with the Enterprise Growth Managers (Arts & Sciences and Well being) and the broader KPED workforce. Recurrently reviewing and amending this within the gentle of on-going analysis and evaluation.  
• Utilizing important diplomacy, negotiation expertise and sector data to search out artistic options to issues. 

INTERNAL & EXTERNAL LIAISON AND COMMUNICATION

• Work together and cooperate with exterior purchasers, King’s employees and teachers to construct belief, worth others, talk successfully, drive execution, foster innovation, give attention to supply to clients, collaborate with others, clear up issues creatively and exhibit excessive integrity.  
• Keep skilled inside and exterior relationships that meet the college’s core values and proactively establishing and sustaining efficient working workforce relationships with all help departments.  
• Feed into the method of defining and settings service requirements for KPED to make sure that they’re acceptable for the actual tutorial space, programme sort or business setting and adhering to those service requirements. 
• Construct a community of inside Topic Matter Specialists throughout the Faculty to advise on programme improvement and execution. 

PEOPLE AND CULTURE

• Contribute to and promote a tradition of steady improvement. 
• Be a collegiate and respectful member of the workforce, exhibiting due care to colleagues.  
• Undertake a service tradition to evaluate, advise and facilitate alternatives for Skilled Training. 

The above checklist of tasks will not be exhaustive, and the submit holder will probably be required to undertake such duties and tasks as might moderately be anticipated throughout the scope and grading of the submit.

Abilities, data, and expertise 

Important standards

1.      Diploma or equal degree of qualification and/or expertise 

2.      Clear and concise communication expertise acceptable to each inside and exterior audiences   

3.      Wonderful time administration and organisational expertise 

4.      Confirmed venture administration expertise 

5.      Data of contracts, mental property and different business concerns 

6.      Wonderful IT and presentation expertise throughout the MS Workplace Suite 

7.      Demonstrated analytical expertise and the power to course of and clarify info in a transparent, concise method 

8.      Expertise of organising occasions, workshops or programme supply 

9.      Skill to know and performance within the completely different cultural environments of academia and enterprise 

10.   Skill to work as a part of a workforce 

11.   Sturdy monetary acumen and monetary administration expertise 

Fascinating standards

1.      Data, curiosity and understanding of Larger Training  

2.      Expertise of enterprise improvement 

3.      Expertise of bid and proposal writing and public procurement processes   

4.      Expertise of reviewing contracts   

5.      Undertaking administration qualification 

Additional info

​​About King’s Skilled & Govt Growth  

​King’s Skilled & Govt Growth (KPED) is a specialist enterprise improvement unit enabling King’s Colleges to ship skilled training to a large worldwide and home viewers. We associate with all colleges at King’s to design, develop and ship open and bespoke academic programmes according to King’s Training Technique. In face-to-face, blended or on-line modalities, our programmes embrace Persevering with Skilled Growth, Govt Training and more and more, stackable micro-credentials.  

​We’re a dynamic workforce with bold progress targets in a precedence space of improvement for King’s. We proudly foster a supportive tradition and group, which prioritises each particular person and collective wellbeing. We actively work to guard and enhance the wellbeing of all employees; be it bodily, psychological, or social, and recognise this as central to our work and success.  

​King’s provides all kinds of help to staff, together with versatile working preparations, paid maternity/shared parental depart, menopausal help, an lively wellbeing programme, coaching and improvement alternatives and far more. All our employees profit from a beneficiant pension contribution as properly.  

​For extra details about KPED, go to King’s Skilled & Govt Growth.​  

About sustainability at King’s and alternative to affix the sustainability champion scheme 
At King’s we try to ship analysis, training and repair to society that responds to the United Nations Sustainable Growth Targets (UN SDGs), supporting the worldwide effort to construct a greater future for our folks and planet.  

At KPED, we take our position in minimising the damaging and maximising the optimistic impacts severely and search to embed sustainability at each degree throughout the division. Whereas working for us, you’ll have the chance to help sustainability by way of participation within the Sustainability Champions programme.