Global Mobility Officer (Incoming Student Support)

King's College London; London; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading university seeks a Global Mobility Officer (Incoming Student Support) to manage Study Abroad programmes. The role includes operational responsibility for liaising with students and organizing events while ensuring accurate communication. Candidates should have administrative experience, strong communication skills, and attention to detail. This full-time post offers a fixed-term contract until June 2026.

Qualifications

• Relevant work experience in customer-facing or administrative roles.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams.
• Good English language and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage incoming Study Abroad programmes.
• Support application and orientation periods for incoming students.
• Student module selection and allocation using SITS:Vision.

Skills

Administrative skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Client-facing

Problem-solving

Education

Higher education in a related discipline

Tools

SITS:Vision

Microsoft Office

Job description

About us:

The Global Mobility Officer (Incoming Student Support) works with the Global Mobility Senior Officer (Incoming Students Co-ordinator) and a second Global Mobility Officer (Incoming Student Support) to manage King’s incoming Study Abroad programmes, facilitating students studying at universities overseas to spend a period at King’s. The role combines programme administration, student support and international relationship liaison.

About the role:

The Global Mobility Officer (Incoming Student Support) has operational responsibility for a set of tasks and processes within the Global Mobility Office’s wider remit. They work within and across multiple teams at the university, engaging with a wide range of colleagues.

This role in particular will work to enable the nomination, application and orientation periods of time for our incoming student cohort, and will also be required to liaise directly with students, with academic and professional service colleagues across King’s College London, as well as ensure accurate and timely communication are sent throughout the year.

In addition to supporting the organisation of various events, you will also work with our Peer Advisors (recruited students from King’s) who support our activities, as well as running presentations yourself to our incoming student cohort. Other responsibilities include:

• Supporting the collation of faculty module availability and then administering student module selection, allocation and amendments using SITS:Vision, the university’s student records database
• Representing King’s to overseas universities and provider organisations by supporting visits
• Helping to run the Global Mobility Office through a range of other administrative tasks such as raising purchase orders, booking rooms, ordering catering, logging Estates & Facilities issues, etc

This is a full time post, and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 15th June 2026.

About you:

Essential criteria

• Relevant work experience and/or education: We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in customer-facing or administrative services roles, work with external organisations, with students or across national boundaries. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training
• Excellent administrative skills with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams
• Good English language and communication skills in all media
• Strong eye for detail and ways to ensure process accuracy
• Ability to work under pressure and independently prioritise and manage your own workload
• Ability to work with others to support both individual and team aims and to overcome challenges
• Understanding of the need for sensitivity and confidentiality as well as when and how to escalate sensitive cases

Desirable criteria

• Ability to demonstrate a meaningful commitment to Diversity & Inclusion practices
• Experience of using SITS:Vision
• Experience of presenting / public speaking
• Experience of study abroad programme administration

Further information:

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.

Interviews are due to be held during the week commencing 14th July 2025.

£34,179 to £37,546 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance