Overview
People & Talent Manager – INTERNAL ONLY – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
THIS VACANCY IS OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY
About Us
Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement (P&A) provides a fundraising and alumni engagement function in support of King’s College London. We are proud to work with colleagues across the university and its health partners to help them serve society through world-leading education, research and healthcare. Our work also includes a partnership with the Maudsley Charity in support of children’s mental health initiatives between the university’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and the South London & Maudsley NHS Trust.
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We are a committed team that brings together fundraisers working across different channels, alongside colleagues who promote King’s College London’s engagement with its worldwide alumni community. Our work is underpinned and enhanced by a range of dedicated professionals in supporting areas covering proposition development, supporter engagement, supporter operations and business operations.
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We have an impressive, well-established track record of success in securing support that allows the university and partners to deliver on their missions. This includes our global, award-winning World Questions: King’s Answers campaign, which set the standard in the sector and enabled us to raise substantial funds to help tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. Ambitious and innovative, the team has won awards such as a CASE Platinum Award for Fundraising and a CASE Gold Award for Donor Relations and Stewardship. We are strongly values-driven with a focus on sustaining an excellent and supportive culture, which we see as key to creating a successful team that can support the university and its partners in making a real and positive difference to the world we live in.
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More on King’s College London
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King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. The university is dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place.  Through its commitment to exceptional education, impactful research and genuine service to society, King’s College London is creating positive change in its communities, both in London and on the world stage. The Strategic Vision 2029 looks forward to King’s College London’s 200th anniversary in 2029 and sets out ambitious plans in five key areas:
- Educating the next generation of change-makers
- Challenging ideas and driving change through research
- Giving back to society through meaningful service
- Working with our local communities in London
- Fostering global citizens with an international perspective
About the role
In Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement (P&A) our strategies and objectives are reliant on retaining our great people, creating the best culture and environment for them to work in, supporting their development and providing the platform for them to flourish.
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The People and Talent Manager will play a key role in fostering and sustaining this environment. Working closely with the Associate Director of Business Operations, who sits on the P&A Leadership Team and has overall responsibility for the people agenda, the role will help to ensure that all elements of an employee’s lifecycle are optimised and that the P&A People Plan is delivered. This will be in support of an overall ambition for P&A to be the destination of choice in the sector and we will always be looking to innovate and demonstrate best practice in support of this objective.
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This role will play a key part in communicating policies, opportunities and initiatives from across the university to the wider P&A team. They will also play a key role in gathering information and insights to help inform decisions by Leadership Team (LT), and aide in the development of action plans to improve the experience of working in P&A, to help colleagues thrive and deliver to best effect for our stakeholders. They will help bring new thinking and innovation into our activities to keep us at the leading edge of practice.
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Areas of responsibility and activity will include recruitment and selection; onboarding and induction; culture and engagement; training, development and progression; reward and recognition; and managing feedback mechanisms to ensure we continue to reflect, learn and improve. Everything will be underpinned by our Core Values, of Collaboration, Ambition, Respect and Responsibility.
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This is a full time maternity cover role (35 hours per week) and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 16 January 2027, or until the substantive post holder returns. P&A has a hybrid working approach, with a minimum of 40% of time in the office. Typically, this equates to two days per week, but we’re very happy for colleagues to be in more frequently if they so wish.
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