Events & Experiential Learning Officer

King's College London; London; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job description

About King's

The King’s community is dedicated to the service of society. King’s Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.

King’s Careers & Employability seeks to enable and empower students, recent alumni, and researchers from all disciplines and walks of life, to gain the knowledge, skills and experiences they need to effectively navigate their lives and careers after university and achieve lifelong success. Events & Experiential Learning underpins delivery for the broader Employer Engagement teams, supporting students and employers in delivery of our key events including careers fairs, presentations, skills workshops and panels alongside development of bespoke employer activity on campus and virtually and curation of part-time work for students.

We are part of the Students & Education Directorate, a collection of wide-ranging professional services in place to support King’s students and their education. As a directorate we manage the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond, to ensure a coherent and seamless student experience and effective administrative processes, working closely with King’s faculties to do so.

About The Role

The Events & Experiential Learning Officer supports the planning, organisation, delivery and review of our events. They will also lead on developing and increasing a broad range of part-time and casual work opportunities for students, support work on embedding employability into curricular at King’s and play an active role contributing to wider work on skills development projects across the institution.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to work with a range of employers sourcing opportunities and creating events, and who wish to utilise their skills and expertise in organisation & networking. This is an opportunity to grow your skills in planning and sourcing.

We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role.

This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), 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

1. Relevant work experience and/or education: We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in events and recruitment. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training.
2. Ability to establish and maintain professional working relationships with external and internal stakeholders.
3. Ensuring that data is input into a data system in a timely and accurate fashion.
4. Working with minimum supervision; being supportive and encouraging of others in a team, delivering work on time and to required standards.
5. Ability to work with others to support project aims and overcome challenges.
6. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite and Content Management Systems (CMS) and the enthusiasm to learn new systems.
7. Identify priorities on a frequent basis and work to deadlines.

Desirable criteria

1. Understanding and demonstrable interest of supporting students and clients.
2. Understanding of user trends, reporting and evaluation/analysis tools to successfully develop and enhance provision.

Full details of the role and the skills and experience required can be found in the attached job description.

Further Information

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 review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

Interviews are due to be held on Wednesday 14th or Monday 19th May 2025.

Grade and Salary: £34,179 to £37,546 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance

Job ID: 112905

Close Date: 05-May-2025

Contact Person: Jonathan Goodliffe (Events & Experiential Learning Manager)

Contact Details: [e-mail]