"Research Manager"

King's College London - Academic Psychiatry

Placed On: 24th February 2026

Closes: 5th March 2026

Job Ref: 138625

About us

The King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) is the leading civilian UK centre of excellence for military health research and independent of the UK Ministry of Defence. The Centres’ work has helped shape government policy towards military personnel. KCMHR sits within the Department of Psychological Medicine. It launched in 2004 and is directed by Professor Sir Simon Wessely and Professor Nicola Fear, CBE. For more information, please see https://kcmhr.org

KCMHR in partnership with RAND Europe runs the Centre for Evidence for the Armed Forces Community, funded by the Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) https://www.centreforevidence.org. The Centre aims to ensure that research evidence is at the heart of decision making to enable a thriving Armed Forces Community, which it aims to achieve by several mechanisms including via evidence synthesis, provision of an online searchable repository of published research and policy, regular topical news articles, stakeholder engagement and advice, and an annual conference, to name a few.

The Centre is Led by co-directors Ruth Harris (RAND Europe) and Professor Nicola Fear, CBE (KCMHR), supported by Deputy Director Dr Mary Keeling (RAND Europe), and included governance advisors (Professor Neil Greenberg and Professor Sir Simon Wessely) to provide strategic direction.

About the role

We are looking to appoint a Research Manager to support the delivery of the Centre focussing on issues relating to the Armed Forces Community, including ex-Serving personnel, and their families. The successful candidate will work closely with the Deputy Director and be accountable for managing a broad team on a day-to-day basis, project management of the various Centre outputs, managing Centre social media, awareness and engagement raising, developing and maintaining a broad network of collaborators particularly within research, policy and practice, pertaining to the Armed Forces Community, and measuring metrics and impact of the Centre. The post holder will lead on the annual Research Centre Conference including planning and delivery.

The Centre is now in its last 18months of its current five-year funding from FiMT with the Centre team working to secure future funding from new sources. The post holder will therefore be expected to contribute to the sustainability work to secure future sustained funding for the Centre – this is an exciting opportunity to drive the future of the Centre!

This is a full time (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an a fixed term contract until 31st August 2027.

We would be open to exploring this opportunity as a job share arrangement.

The post is based at King’s College London, Denmark Hill Campus for 2-3 days a week with the option to work from home for part of the week.

Interviews are due to be held on 24th and 25th March 2026