King’s Clinical Academic Training Office Programme Coordinator (CTM)

About Us

We are seeking a dynamic, organised and collaborative individual to coordinate delivery of flagship clinical academic training programmes delivered across King’s Health Partners (KHP) through the King’s Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO) and the Centre for Translational Medicine (CTM).

King’s College London, together with our NHS Foundation Trust partners (Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust) provides a leading multidisciplinary environment in which to train as a clinical academic. We offer internally and externally funded training opportunities, with a proven track record of developing clinical academic leaders, making a difference for patients and communities across South East London and beyond.

The Centre For Translational Medicine Aims To

• Address the major health burdens for local, national and global communities – and to challenge existing health inequalities;
• Combine our outstanding clinical and scientific expertise to deliver excellent outcomes for patients;
• Develop the next generation of clinical-academic leaders, skilled in delivering impactful translational biomedical research.

About The Role

The post holder will support the coordination and delivery of strategic capacity-building schemes for clinical academics, including the new Clinical Research Excellence Fellowship programmes, and the Research Catalyst Fellowships for consultant-level healthcare professionals.

By supporting these schemes, the postholder will build knowledge and expertise in growing a clinical academic pipeline and community, and ensure the researchers enrolled on CTM programmes benefit from the world-class clinical academic training environment provided through the organisations of KHP. They will coordinate cohort-building opportunities across the programmes, and proactively seek ways to provide and analyse data, streamline and enhance processes, and create opportunities for the benefit of all involved.

This is a full-time post (0.8FTE considered) and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31st March 2027, with the possibility of extension dependent on funding. KCATO and the CTM works in a hybrid manner; we operate across all of the KHP campuses so flexibility in location is required.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential Criteria

• Experience of supporting training and capacity building, for researchers and/or health professionals.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with confidence and diplomacy to interact with colleagues, staff, trainees and stakeholders at all levels.
• Understanding of the priorities of research-focused institutions and/or partnerships.
• Excellent data skills and the ability to enhance and develop processes.
• Ability to work independently and flexibility, managing projects within a complex and evolving environment.

Desirable criteria

• Experience in developing communication strategies and content and/or stakeholder engagement.
• Postgraduate qualification and/or research experience in a health-related subject.
• Experience of managing or administering research funding schemes.

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 Monday 12th May, with likely second round interviews later that week.

Grade and Salary: £43,355 - £51,735 per annum, including London Weighting

Job ID: 112105

Close Date: 13-Apr-2025

Contact Person: Kate Murray

Contact Details: Kate.1.murray@kcl.ac.uk / Emily.1.robinson@kcl.ac.uk