King's College London
152588 - Senior Industry Experience and Learning Manager
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The Careers team at King’s Business School has seen significant growth in its delivery of industry-facing experiences, including internships, consultancy-style projects, simulations, and office treks. This success has driven strong student engagement and increasing demand from academic programmes, creating a more complex and distributed landscape of experiential learning across the School.
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Industry Experience and Learning Manager to join a collaborative and ambitious Careers team. This is a new role that will provide strategic leadership for this area, bringing greater structure, consistency, and scale across both curricular and co-curricular provision.
The postholder will define a clear Careers-led baseline offer and develop frameworks and models that enable high-quality experiential learning to be delivered across programmes. Working closely with academic and professional services colleagues, they will support the integration of industry experience across the student journey, ensuring all students benefit from meaningful opportunities that enhance skills development and progression.
If you’re motivated by leading and shaping real-world learning at scale, and thrive in a busy, evolving environment, this is a great opportunity to make a significant impact.
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Please note, the position is a hybrid post and requires a minimum of 40% on-campus presence, 2 days a week in our Bush House, The Strand offices.
This is a full-time post and appointments are standardly made at the bottom end of the salary scale, 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
- Significant experience designing and delivering experiential learning, employability, or industry-facing programmes, including activities such as projects, internships, simulations, or similar
- Experience working with academic or equivalent stakeholders to shape provision within complex environments, demonstrating the ability to build engagement and alignment across diverse priorities
- Demonstrable experience of leading complex initiatives across multiple stakeholders, balancing competing priorities and delivering outcomes
- Experience of developing scalable models, frameworks, or structured approaches, enabling delivery through others rather than direct ownership
- Proven ability to translate strategic priorities into practical delivery models and approaches within complex organizational settings
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to guide and enable others without direct authority
- Experience of evaluating programmes or initiatives and using insight to improve effectiveness, quality, and impact
- Experience of line management, including supporting and developing staff and overseeing delivery through others
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Desirable criteria
- Experience working within a business school or higher education environment
- Understanding of employer engagement, industry partnerships, or recruitment practices
- Experience of developing toolkits, templates, or guidance to support delivery by others
- Familiarity with employability, skills development, or graduate outcomes frameworks
- Experience of managing or influencing budget allocation or resource planning
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 on what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.
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