Programmes Officer
Job id: 160845. Salary: £34,713 - £38,127 per annum inc London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 19 October 2026. Closing date: 02 November 2026.
Business unit: Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. Department: Nightingale Student Hub.
Contact details: Lydia Noto. Lydia.noto@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Waterloo Campus. Category: No category added.
About us
King’s College London is a leading University with nine Faculties. As part of King’s Health Partners, we have an excellent environment for health care interaction and a strong focus on mentoring and career development.
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 Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) is based in the heart of central and south London. It includes the Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, 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.
About the role
We are pleased to offer this excellent opportunity to join our team in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care as one of our Programmes Officers.
The work of our Programmes Team is essential to supporting the learning and teaching of over 3,500 students at King’s each year. As one of our Programmes Officers, you will help us to provide world-leading educational support for our students. This is particularly important to us, as our Faculty’s position in the QS World University Rankings places nursing at King’s as 1st the UK and 2nd globally.
Our Programmes Team works closely with professional services staff and senior academic staff within the Faculty, and other Students & Education services across King’s. We work to ensure a professional, supportive, responsive, and personable service incorporating front-line support as the first point of contact for our students and academic staff.
The postholder will primarily work on supporting our Continuing Professional Development course provision. The Programme Officer will provide essential operational and administrative support to both academic staff and students, with a strong emphasis on meeting the needs of an internationally diverse student cohort. The Programme Officer will also contribute more broadly across the Programmes Team where needed.
The successful candidate will work proactively to support a broad range of stakeholders. With a highly motived approach, the successful candidate will have the ability to work independently as well as delivering within a team. Most importantly, they will have a passionate commitment to working to ensure the best possible experience for all our students here at King’s.
The selection process will include a panel interview and an assessment.
This is a full-time post, and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 2 years.
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.
Location: Hybrid – minimum of 2 days per week on campus (Waterloo Campus (and occasionally Denmark Hill Campus.)
About you
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to draft documents and correspondence
- Excellent organisation and time management skills
- Strong numeracy skills and ability to analyse numerical data
- Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages and the ability to work on new systems
- Methodical, detail oriented and flexible approach to work, maintaining a high level of accuracy
- Ability to work with a broad range of stakeholders in a professional and assured manner
- Proactive with the ability to work independently as well as delivering within a team
- Strong commitment to putting students first, with a customer-focused approach.
- Comfortable with adapting to change, driving own professional development and a commitment to continuous improvement.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in the use of databases, student records systems (such as SITS) and virtual learning environments (such as Keats/Moodle)
Downloading a copy of our Job Description
Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.
Further Information
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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.
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 person specification section of the job description. 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.
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