Business Support Officer

Job title:

Business Support Officer

Company

King’s College London

Job description

The School of Neuroscience, headed by Professor Mark Richardson, is one of three schools under the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and is comprised of four departments and five centres across the Denmark Hill and Guy’s Campus. We are UK’s second largest Neuroscience school with over 500 researchers and 150 PhD students undertaking world-class research in the study of the nervous system and understanding brain function in health and disease. The School works closely with three large NHS Trusts as part of King’s Health Partners. Commitment to Culture, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (CEDI) is displayed through active participation in initiatives across King’s to improve the experience of our staff and students.Having successfully delivered two cultural projects to help identify, address, and improve the School’s working environment, we continue to foster a diverse and nurturing community within which you will have the opportunity to dedicate time to your professional development, join working groups and professional networks of specific interest, and seek mentoring opportunities to fully explore your career situation outside of your direct line management. In addition, we support staff members requiring flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments. We encourage and welcome applications from across the community and all appointments are made solely on merit.About the roleAn exciting opportunity to join the Professional Services team in the School of Neuroscience within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN). We are seeking to recruit a Business Support Officer (Operations) to join our busy but friendly Business Operations team to support the School as they work to strengthen the partnership between academics, researchers and professional services, delivering high-quality support to all of its members.The post holder will support the Business Operations Team in the day-to-day processes across a variety of operational areas to ensure the smooth running of the School and provide administrative support to key School initiatives to create a welcoming and supportive School culture for staff and students.The role would suit someone who is able to work independently with minimal supervision, organise their own workload, effectively manage competing priorities, has good attention to detail and is able to build and maintain effective working relationships within the Business Operations team and across the wider School, Faculty and University.The role will provide individuals with a wide variety of experience and skills working across multiple operational functions in a large and complex Faculty, supporting the individual to progress their career within Business Operations across the University.Due to the nature of work under the Business Operation activity, this role requires a minimum of 40% of time on campus (Guy’s and Denmark Hill). Depending on the business need, the location may vary from week to week.This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.About youTo be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:Essential criteria1. Demonstrable administrative skills and knowledge of business operations acquired through previous roles.2. Confidence and experience in processing financial transactions & knowledge of financial systems in a large organisation3. IT skills (including Microsoft 365 package: Excel, Word and Powerpoint) and experience of utilising digital technology in day-to-day work.4. Proven communication and interpersonal skills in order to receive, understand and relay day to day operational information to various groups5. Able to work independently, and as part of a team, contributing new ideas to broader team goals and objectives6. Good organisation and time management skills, with ability to organise workload and manage competing priorities7. Good accuracy and attention to detail, with ability to quickly follow, adapt and teach new procedures and processes.8. Proactive approach and able to problem solve.Desirable criteria1. Keen interest in higher education business operations in the UK.2. Demonstrated commitment to previous roles3. Keen interest in using PowerBI, Power Automate and extended Microsoft suiteDownloading a copy of our Job DescriptionFull details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.Further informationWe pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King’s. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ ‘ pages.We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.CompanyKing’s College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King’s has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.King’s has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.King’s has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King’s Health Partners. King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world’s leading research-led universities and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: .King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at .Company info Mini-site Telephone +(44)02078365454 Location STRAND
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Expected salary

£32979 – 36396 per year

Location

London

Job date

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:09:45 GMT

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