Project Officer

The Social Care Rapid Evaluation Team (SOCRATES) is a group of researchers and experts by experience from King's College London, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Lancashire, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to rapidly evaluate social care innovations and service developments. Our rapid evaluations provide relevant, robust and timely evidence to improve social care and people's lives. The opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly motivated individual to provide project management support to SOCRATES. As part of SOCRATES, the postholder will be expected to work closely with the leadership team across King's College London and the University of Lancashire to support SOCRATES's Co-Directors to develop and maintain its infrastructure, relationships with evaluation sites, communication with advisors, collaborators and wider stakeholders, monitor budgets and support aspects of the contract. The successful candidate will have proven experience of effective project coordination, ideally for research projects and experience working in a research administration role, ideally in Higher Education. The role requires experience managing budgets, overseeing and recording financial expenditure as well as managing multiple projects simultaneously with competing deadlines. It also necessitates the successful candidate to have the capacity to develop and deliver strategy and action plans that take forward agreed priorities. Evidence of being self-motivated, proactive and able to work independently with limited supervision will be essential., To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience,

• Proven experience of effective project coordination, ideally in Higher Education research administration, including experience of budgeting, overseeing and recording financial expenditure
• Capacity to develop and deliver strategy and action plans that take forward agreed priorities
• Experience of building and developing networks, internally and externally, as well as handling complex queries and communicating appropriately to a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Experience of managing multiple projects simultaneously with competing deadlines and evidence of strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interpret complex documents, procedures and regulations to provide sound guidance to others
• Experience gathering, collating and analysing data and information and the ability to interpret complex documents
• Evidence of effective teamwork and the ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, fluency in written and spoken English and excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office (including Outlook, Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint)

Desirable criteria

• Experience managing relationships with research funders.
• Experience of making recommendations based on data analysis
• Relevant professional qualification or membership of appropriate professional body

The 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) placed King's applied and allied health research 1st for: overall proportion of research rated 4 (world-leading, the best mark possible), research papers rated 4, impact rated 4, environment rated 4(joint), Grade Point Average and Power. REF2021 rated as world-leading: 100% of our environment, 86% of our impact and 70% of our research overall. Over 95% of our research overall was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. As of 2026, King's is top-two in the world for Nursing and #1 in the UK for the 8th year in a row (QS world rankings). King’s produces more highly cited research outputs (top 1% citations) on palliative care than any other centre internationally (SciVal), and is second in the world on the same metric for nursing and midwifery. King’s is the largest provider of health care education in Europe. The (NMPC) is based in the heart of central and south London. It includes the , the premier Institute for Palliative Care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams. Our applied clinical and health multidisciplinary research transforms therapies, the healthcare experience and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for. Our award-winning NMPC education programmes span pre-registration nursing and midwifery, and multidisciplinary post-graduate taught and research programmes. We are committed to staff development and offer opportunities to identify and access appropriate training and professional growth.

The role is 0.5FTE (17.5 hours per week) which can be distributed flexibly. The post-holder is expected to attend in-person for a minimum one day per week at the Denmark Hill campus. This is a part-time post and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30.04.28. King’s considers the professional and personal development of our staff a priority and we offer an inspiring range of opportunities for training and career progression. Our Organisational Development team provide in-house and bespoke learning.

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