Academic ConnectDigital Curriculum Launch Manager
Job id: 093629. Salary: £43,205 - £50,585 including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 02 August 2024. Closing date: 25 August 2024.
Business unit: King's Digital. Department: King's Digital.
Contact details: Maria Dlugosch. Maria.dlugosch@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Strand Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.
About us
Our mission is to provide transformative, high-quality digital education, so students can learn, wherever they are.
We collaborate with academics and professional services staff across the university, and with our external partners, to design, develop and deliver a wide range of educational programmes.
Our learners study with us from across the world, choosing when and where they study, working around their schedules.
We are a dynamic team with ambitious growth targets in a priority area of development for King’s. We proudly foster a supportive culture and community which prioritises both individual and collective wellbeing.
Employee support at King’s includes flexible working arrangements, paid maternity/shared parental leave, menopausal support, an active wellbeing programme, training and development opportunities and much more. All of our staff benefit from a generous pension contribution as well.
As part of hybrid working at King’s, all team members can work remotely for part of the week if they wish.
Join us as we open futures and unlock potential.
About the role
This post will oversee the operational launch of new programmes within King’s Digital’s portfolio of online programmes.
They will ensure the optimum setup for marketing, recruitment, and admissions for new online programmes, in liaison with key stakeholders and delivery partners.
They will work in collaboration with both academic and professional services staff across the university to ensure a world-class online distance learner student experience.
They will manage the King’s Digital Education Operations launch team including student ambassadors.
This is a full time post, and you will be offered an indefinite contract.
About you
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Agile/project management qualification or equivalent experience working and communicating with multi-disciplinary teams in a complex organisation.
- Authoritative knowledge of project management practices, processes and tools.
- Excellent IT, administration, numeracy and literacy skills
- Proven ability to establish and maintain good relations with colleagues and with external contacts while exercising a high degree of discretion, tact, diplomacy, and determination. The postholder must be able to gain credibility with colleagues at all levels and win confidence in a variety of settings and situations.
- Ability to contribute to decision-making and to take informed and reasoned decisions taking into account complex and sometimes incompatible information, needs and views.
- Proven ability to use initiative and respond positively to situations arising at short notice
- Demonstrable ability to assess risk, resolve issues, consider the implications of decisions and to solve problems.
Desirable criteria
- Awareness and understanding of national HE polices and current issues facing students in the field of online distance learning
- Experience of team management
Downloading a copy of our Job Description
Full 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 information
We 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 ‘How we Recruit’ pages.
Interviews are due to be held on 05 September
We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.
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