About King's:

We are Timetabling Services. We are responsible for overseeing the delivery of student timetables and room allocations for all teaching across the college, ensuring the optimisation of space utilisation and the provision of a high-quality service to staff and students. This includes devising and implementing all associated business processes to ensure they are responsive and proactive, and driving a culture of service management and improvement that centres our students at the heart of the service.

We are part of the wider Students & Education Directorate, a collection of wide-ranging professional services in place to support King’s students and their education. As a directorate we manage the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond, to ensure a coherent and seamless student experience and effective administrative processes, working closely with King’s faculties to do so.

About the role:

The Timetabling Officer will play a key role in the provision of a full academic timetabling service in support of our students and the Education Strategy. They will support Senior Timetabling officers in ensuring that the requirements of the College are met through the optimisation of the teaching schedule.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to work in a fast-paced administration department, and who wish to utilise their analytical and negotiation skills to provide a first-class timetabling service to staff and students.

We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role.

This is a full time (35 Hours per week) maternity leave cover within Timetabling services, with essential periods of high intensity associated with Annual assessment boards throughout the academic year. You will be offered a one year fixed term contract.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

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 delivering student administrative services, or similar. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training.
• Ability to balance competing demands and manage customer expectations
• Involvement in successful timetabling operations, preferably in an organisation of comparable size and complexity
• Experience of undertaking large scale data gathering and information retrieval
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills
• Good attention to detail even when working under pressure and to deadlines
• Proven knowledge of a timetabling software package (e.g. Syllabus, Enterprise)

Full details of the role and the skills and experience required can be found in the attached job description which is provided on the next page.

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.

To find out how our managers review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

This role does not meet the requirements of the Home Office and therefore we are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who require the right to work in the UK.

Grade and Salary: £34,179 - £37,546 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Job ID: 1168
Close Date: 02-Jul-2025
Contact Person: Victoria Cooper
Contact Details: victoria.1.cooper@kcl.ac.uk