KINGS COLLEGE LONDON: Head of World Mobility

About Us

The King’s community is devoted to the service of society. King’s Strategic Imaginative and prescient 2029 units out our imaginative and prescient for the long run, formed round 5 precedence areas: educate to encourage and enhance; research to tell and innovate; serve to form and rework; a civic college on the coronary heart of London; and a global community that companies the world. Our formidable Training Technique units out the actions that we should take to remodel how we educate, how and the place our college students be taught and the way we help them throughout their time with us. 

The World Mobility Workplace is a student-facing and external-facing skilled companies crew of 11. This is a chance to affix a small, shut, centralised skilled companies crew offering inbound and outbound research and work overseas lifecycle help and reporting, mobility partnership settlement negotiation and management, and administration of Erasmus, Turing and the Workers Worldwide Alternate Programme, in pursuance of the college’s Training and Worldwide methods.

We’re a part of the College students & Training Directorate, a group of wide-ranging skilled companies in place to help King’s college students and their education. As a directorate we handle the scholar lifecycle from software to commencement and past, to make sure a coherent and seamless scholar expertise and efficient administrative processes, working intently with King’s schools to take action. 

Concerning the function

The Head of World Mobility will lead and handle a crew and be an issue skilled in the important thing operational service space of World Mobility, guaranteeing the senior crew, and wider Directorate, are totally supported with efficient processes and methods throughout a variety of enterprise and operational workstreams.  

The Head of World Mobility could have operational duty for an outlined portfolio of education and scholar skilled companies, as a departmental lead inside the College students and Training Directorate.

The Head of World Mobility will work inside and throughout groups and features, participating with a variety of colleagues throughout King’s. They contribute and lead on actions which positively influence the scholar expertise. This consists of guaranteeing:

• Shut working with their Affiliate Director, and throughout organisational boundaries, to establish and motion alternatives to enhance effectivity and consistency of service (or venture) supply
• Environment friendly useful resource utilisation and organisation of labor assets inside their division (or venture)
• Proactive engagement with service customers and stakeholders to facilitate mutually efficient working relationships
• Their division (or venture) embeds a tradition of service, transparency and steady enchancment

The Head of World Mobility could have an understanding of the priorities, cultures and pressures of a research-led college and of educational processes and the construction of the tutorial yr.

The Head of World Mobility supplies senior operational management for all within the crew, line-managing 4 Officers in addition to offering counsel to the opposite Officers and Senior Officers.

That is an thrilling alternative for candidates seeking to work in an in depth, centralised crew that’s each student- and external-facing and who want to utilise their abilities and experience in scholar mobility programme administration, worldwide relations and crew management. This is a chance to develop your abilities in managing in a sophisticated, essentially reactive however collaborative atmosphere.

We encourage functions from candidates who’ve expertise from each inside and out of doors of the Greater Training sector the place they’ll reveal the talents wanted to achieve this function.

This can be a full time put up (35 Hours per week) and shall be supplied on an indefinite contract.

About You

To achieve success on this function, we’re on the lookout for candidates to have the next abilities and expertise:

Important standards

1. Related work expertise and/or education: We expect a variety of various work and academic experiences might help you to achieve success on this function. Related work expertise would possibly embrace work in different universities or another massive, sophisticated organisations, or else in roles with a diplomatic sensibility. Related academic experiences would possibly embrace increased education in a associated self-discipline, skilled {qualifications} or different coaching. 
2. Capability to reveal a significant and visible dedication to Variety & Inclusion insurance policies and practices.
3. Expertise of working in a federated atmosphere the place collaborative working, facilitation and networking abilities are core to resolving advanced cross-departmental issues for educational, skilled companies and scholar communities. 
4. Capability to establish service areas for methods improvement or course of enchancment and the talents to guide on decision.
5. Wonderful interpersonal abilities and line-management expertise with potential to speak a transparent imaginative and prescient of what’s to be achieved inside an atmosphere appropriate for significant two-way suggestions. 
6. Capability to foster a cohesive crew ethic and prepare crew members while participating in personal applicable private studying to retain and develop data base of the upper education sector. 
7. Capability to handle the workload of self and others within the crew in a fast-changing atmosphere, together with to fulfill difficult deadlines, sustaining progress on a number of agendas and initiatives concurrently. 
8. Capability to synthesise advanced, strategic, high-level ambitions into digestible, relatable and sensible info for consumption by others.

Fascinating standards

1. An understanding and dealing data of governance within the increased education sector, and the regulatory and legal preparations for UK college governance.
2. Professional data of research overseas, exchanges, partnership challenges and associated Greater Training procedures.

Full particulars of the function and the talents and expertise required will be discovered within the hooked up job description which is offered on the following web page.

  Additional Info 

We pleasure ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace range and wish everybody to really feel that they belong and are linked to others in our community.

We’re dedicated to working with our employees and unions on these and different points, to proceed to help our individuals and to develop a various and inclusive tradition at King’s. We ask all candidates to submit a replica of their CV, and a supporting assertion, detailing how they meet the important standards listed within the advert. If we obtain a robust area of candidates, we could use the fascinating standards to decide on our closing shortlist, so please embrace your proof towards these the place potential.

To learn the way our managers assessment your software, please check out our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

Interviews are attributable to be held in-person on Tuesday 18th and Wednesday nineteenth June.