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Executive Assistant & Projects Officer

King's College London

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GBP 38,000 - 44,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Join King's College London as an Executive Assistant & Projects Officer, where you will support the Director of Global Student Recruitment and Admissions by providing essential administrative assistance, managing communications, and coordinating projects. This full-time role requires strong organizational skills and the ability to effectively manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced higher education environment.

Qualifications

Essential: Educated to degree level and/or proven relevant experience.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and AI tools is required.
Experience in budget tracking and reporting.

Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive administrative support to the Director.
Manage diary, arrange travel, and handle financial operations.
Support governance and project activities.

Skills

Communication

Time Management

Organizational Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Initiative

Education

Degree level education or proven relevant experience

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

AI tools

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About Us

King’s College London is the leading destination for ambitious students from across the world because of our academic excellence, reputation and research impact. Our focus is ensuring the best possible student experience, from the beginning of their journey with us as prospective students through to enrolment so that our students can thrive in our diverse and inclusive community in central London.

The Global Student Recruitment and Admissions directorate delivers marketing, student recruitment and admissions services in partnership with Faculties, creating strategies to attract growing numbers of students from across global markets, as well as from the UK.

As a directorate we are responsible for the delivery of student recruitment targets, ensuring cohesive recruitment strategies and planning from lead generations and attraction, admissions, through to conversion and enrolment.

About The Role

The Executive Assistant and Projects Officer will provide comprehensive and confidential administrative support to the Director of Global Student Recruitment and Admissions.

The role will provide professional administrative support to include governance support, meeting secretariat, arranging travel, diary management and routine financial operations on behalf of the senior leadership team, supporting budget and purchase order management.

The role will provide proactive support for projects as required.

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract

About You

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

Essential Criteria

Educated to degree level and/or proven relevant experience
Excellent written and verbal communication including the ability to draft documents and correspondence autonomously to a broad range of audiences
Excellent time management and organisational skills, with ability to work to tight deadlines
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, AI tools and other office software
Experience in budget tracking and reporting, and managing purchase orders
Strong interpersonal skills with ability to form and maintain excellent relationship with stakeholders at all levels.
Able to work on own initiative, able to identify and resolve issues promptly and/or escalating where required.

Desirable criteria

Experience working in the Higher Education sector

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 next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

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.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

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.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.

Grade and Salary: £38,482- £43,249 Inclusive of London Weighting Allowance

Job ID: 117168

Close Date: 23-Jun-2025

Contact Person: Katie Bell

Contact Details: Katie.bell@kcl.ac.uk

Seniority level

Seniority level
Not Applicable

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Administrative
Industries
Higher Education

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