Senior Facilities Operations Officer; Maternity Cover

Senior Facilities Operations Officer (Maternity Cover) Kings College London, London, GB

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

• Degree or equivalent qualification, or substantial relevant experience in administration, operations, project coordination, business support, or a related field.
• Experience providing administrative and operational support in a complex organisation, including coordinating multiple activities and priorities.
• Experience coordinating projects, customer enquiries, meetings, events, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience using a range of digital systems and software, including Microsoft Office applications and database, CRM, project management, or document management systems.
• Excellent organisational, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships and manage competing deadlines.
• Ability to work independently, use initiative, solve problems, and contribute to the continuous improvement of processes and systems.

• Experience working within a higher education, healthcare, research, engineering, manufacturing, or other regulated environment.
• Experience using and building systems such as SharePoint, Planner, Unit4, Worktribe, CRM platforms, or similar business systems.
• Experience maintaining records, databases, document management systems, or business systems with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience supporting financial administration, including budget monitoring, costings, procurement, purchase orders, invoices, or financial reporting.
• Experience supporting grant-funded projects, communications and marketing activities, or customer relationship management processes

At King’s, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university. The Equality Act of protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.

At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension. We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination.

When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King’s guidance.