FlexChange Participant

King?s Climate & Sustainability (KCS) is a University-wide initiative to step up our response to the challenge of climate emergency and global sustainability, and to accelerate and connect research, education and action across King?s. 

As Communications Assistant, you will work closely with the Communications Manager and Communications Officer to support the delivery of a range of communications for KCS. You will help the team prepare for and deliver Climate & Sustainability Month, which will take place in February 2025. Tasks to include: listing events online; creating social media content; liaising with event organisers; adding to databases; helping set up and attending in-person or virtual events where possible; and gathering and reporting on data from comms and events.

We expect that most of the work will be done remotely, and you will need to use your own laptop. However, the role also includes some attendance at in-person events in February, and there will be opportunities to work in the KCS office. We will discuss this during the interview.

No specific requirements.

• Excellent standard of English.
• Good working knowledge of a range of communications activities (e.g. websites, social media, events, marketing). 
• Excellent IT skills (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, databases and social media). 
• Basic design skills (e.g. Canva). 
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral with a proven ability to adapt style for different channels and audiences. 
• Accurate and methodical approach to work, with a keen eye for detail. Proven ability in producing high quality accurate work with tight time scales.
• Enthusiastic and positive approach.  
• Ability to manage time effectively, work flexibly and prioritise workload. 
• An interest in and enthusiasm for climate and sustainability.

Please demonstrate that you meet these criteria in your application, with examples.

Research Assistance for Assessment Innovation Project.

The post holder will undertake a literature review to support research on exciting new assessment innovations currently being trialled in 3rd year UG and MA politics modules in SSPP.  

The post holder will be fully briefed once selected, and there will be regular check ins with the PI over the course of the work, but in broad terms, the literature review will be designed to fulfil three tasks: 

Identify good examples of methodologically similar projects to understand best practice ahead of undertaking empirical research 

Identify and categorise relevant conceptual debates in pedagogy journals to quickly relate the assessment innovations being trialled to current research 

Provide an exhaustive list of research outputs which cover similar assessment innovations to those in this project.  

The literature review will produce a final report encompassing all of the above tasks, which will be used use to assist in fine tuning the project methodology and for drafting the published academic work arising from the project in 2025.  

Work must be conducted in semester 1, i.e. before Christmas, and ideally by end of November, but there is flexibility in terms of when the work hours are completed. Work can mostly be conducted remotely.

Total hours for the project = 103 hours

Bachelors or Masters degree in any subject. Ideally a degree in education, pedagogy or closely related fields. 

Essential: 

Fluency in English 

Ability to quickly review and summarise academic sources in written form 

Experience in performing literature reviews in academic contexts 

Effective time management and inter-personal skills 

Desirable 

Experience researching in fields of education, pedagogy or closely related fields, including familiarity with key journals, concepts and debates. 

The role may involve: 

• Writing descriptions of research clusters and other initiatives of the department. 
• Collecting information from colleagues about their research strengths and publicising these. 
• Identifying and acquiring visuals and other graphics for the website. 
• Recording audiovisual material and interviews with staff in the department. 
• Managing and establishing social media accounts for the department.

PGR student at King's.

The ideal candidate will have: 

• Experience or interest in recording video and audio material. 
• Knowledge of different social media platforms. 
• Good teamworking skills and some basic IT skills.