Senior Programme Officer - INTERNAL ONLY

Job id: 087585. Salary: £37,332 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 10 April 2024. Closing date: 17 April 2024.

Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Department: Department of Population Health Sciences.

Contact details:Piera Freccero [email protected]. [email protected]

Location: Guy's Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.

King’s Global Health Partnerships (KGHP) aims to improve health outcomes in four African countries – Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Zambia and DR Congo – working with local partners and drawing on the skills of volunteers from the NHS and King’s College London.

The Project Manager plays a key role in coordinating programme delivery of the King’s Zambia Partnership, as well as volunteer recruitment and management. KGHP works together with local partners (health facilities, universities and government) to strengthen the health system by transforming the health education and training of doctors, nurses and midwives. Working at individual, institutional and national levels, the partnership seeks to bring about systemic and sustainable reform to the health sector.

Working under the supervision of the Head of Programmes, the role will be responsible for developing systems to recruit and manage programme volunteers and master students, ensuring the systems are utilised across all KGHP partnerships.  They will support the smooth running of the programme in Zambia, supporting volunteer experts, programme staff and partners to deliver an extensive portfolio of activities to strengthen the health system and improve the quality of care. The postholder will also have a responsibility to support grant management, proposal development and logistics, as required.

This role is based in London but there will be opportunities to travel to programme countries to support programme activities.

This post will be offered on an  a fixed-term contract until 19th May 2025.

This is a full time post - 100% full time equivalent.

Volunteers management

• Lead on the development of appropriate systems to recruit and manage volunteers and master students.
• Supporting the programme staff in all KGHP programme countries to utilise the appropriate systems.
• Lead on the development and use of the digital platform for volunteer management, in collaboration with the relevant programme staff.
• Recruitment of volunteers for our Sierra Leone and Zambia partnerships, ensuring that opportunities are advertised via agreed external and internal channels, responding to enquiries and organising recruitment interviews.
• Lead the on-boarding process for volunteers and master students in Zambia ensuring that they have timely and comprehensive information about their assignment via a structured induction; organising travel and logistics; liaising with security and logistics partners as necessary, and ensuring that standards around safeguarding and occupational health are met prior to engagement.

Project Management

• Under the supervision of the Head of Programmes, coordinate and oversee the implementation of assigned projects and grants.
• Ensure adherence to project timelines, budget constraints, and quality standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives.

Grant Management

• In collaboration with the Head of Programmes, Finance Manager and Trust and Foundation Manager at KGHP:
• Manage the entire grant life cycle, from proposal development to reporting.
• Work closely with programme teams to prepare funding proposals and grant applications.
• Monitor and report on grant expenditure, ensuring compliance with donor requirements.
• Provide finance and administrative support to the Zambia partnership, leading on procurement, and ensuring that payments to partners and contractors are made in a timely fashion.
• Support implementation of the KGHP communication plan, working with the Senior Communications Officer to produce engaging and informative internal and external communications and support dissemination of impact.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Candidates are strongly encouraged to specifically address the essential criteria outlined in the Person Specification in their covering letter.

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.

The School of Life Course & Population Sciences is one of five Schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. The School unites over 400 experts in women and children’s health, nutritional sciences, population health and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works: 91 per cent of our research submitted to the Subjects Allied to Medicine (Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences and Women's Health cluster) for REF was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across five Departments.

More information: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/slcps