King's College London
Programme Manager
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Programme Manager
Department
Dentistry, Oral & Cranio Faculty Office
About Us
King’s College London is seeking candidates at all levels of experience with the drive and passion to deliver high-quality customer service to support our strategic aims.
Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.
This is an ideal opportunity to commence or further your career in Higher Education administration. Located at Guy’s campus, The Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences is seeking to recruit a Programme Manager who will offer high-quality administrative support to our postgraduate taught programmes.
About the Role
The Programme Manager will provide administrative management of programmes across Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes.
This will include timetabling, clinical scheduling, data management, improvement projects, and student and academic enquiry management.
The post may be subject to line management responsibilities in the future. As well as these other duties, the post will also drive the functional leadership and specialist oversight of assessment delivery across the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, primarily for undergraduate provision and, where required, postgraduate taught provision.
Working within a generalist Education Operations structure, the postholder will coordinate assessment activity delivered by Programme Officers and Senior Programme Officers, ensuring consistent, accurate, and timely delivery across the assessment lifecycle in accordance with University regulations, Faculty requirements, and agreed standards.
In this functional leadership role, the postholder will be ultimately accountable for the smooth delivery of practical and written assessments, and act as the principal point of specialist advice and escalation for assessment administration, supporting effective planning, use of resources, and resolution of complex cases.
They will work closely with students, academic and professional services colleagues, and central teams to implement policy and process changes, provide specialist advice and training, respond to feedback, and continuously improve the quality and consistency of assessment services.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
The balance of responsibilities will respond to changing operational priorities, while maintaining effective senior oversight of assessment delivery. This is a full-time post, 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
- Substantial experience of coordinating and delivering complex written and practical assessment processes within a higher-education environment, across the assessment lifecycle from planning and preparation through to marks, examination boards, progression, and awards.
- Strong knowledge and practical understanding of higher-education assessment regulations, policies, and quality-assurance requirements, with the ability to interpret and apply them confidently to complex operational cases.
- Experience of leading, coordinating, or directing the work of others, including setting expectations, allocating activity, monitoring delivery, standardising processes and services, and supporting colleagues to develop their knowledge and capability.
- Demonstrable ability to plan and manage complex, time-critical activity involving multiple programmes, stakeholders, dependencies, and limited resources, while maintaining accuracy and service continuity.
- Ability to analyse and use data, evidence, and operational constraints to make sound decisions, explain recommendations, and constructively influence senior academic and professional services colleagues.
- Excellent communication and relationship-management skills, with the confidence to provide authoritative advice, manage competing expectations, and work effectively with students, academics, examiners, and professional services colleagues.
- Experience of identifying risk, resolving complex problems, and leading improvements to processes, guidance, or service delivery, while maintaining accurate, secure, and confidential records.
- Demonstrable commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, with the ability to apply inclusive principles to service delivery, decision-making, communication, and the student and staff experience.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of assessment delivery within a health-related faculty or similarly complex professional education environment, including working with clinical academics, NHS colleagues, or professional and regulatory requirements.
- Experience of coordinating practical or clinical assessments, such as OSCEs, and/or large-scale computer-based examinations.
- Experience of internal and external examiner processes, standard setting, assessment sub-boards, and progression or award decision-making.
- Experience of wider programme-management activity, such as student and academic enquiries, timetabling, clinical scheduling, student-records data, or service-improvement projects.
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional experience relevant to higher-education administration, assessment, or programme management.
How to Apply
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.
We reserve the right to close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive.
While the closing date may change, all adverts will close at 23:59 to allow sufficient time for applications to be submitted on that day.
We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as once we have closed a vacancy you will be unable to submit your application.
To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How We Recruit’ pages.
Grade and Salary
£45,031 - £52,514 per annum including London Weighting Allowance
Job Details
- Job ID: 159649
- Post Date: 25-Sep-2026
- Close Date: 11-Oct-2026
- Contact Person: Katherine Darby-Philpotts
- Contact Details: [Provided at the bottom of the page]
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Location