Knowledge Exchange Officer

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: Hybrid – LCC Elephant and Castle/Home
Salary: £32,624 - £39,342
Contract: Part time
Hours: Part time

Job description

The opportunity

London College of Communication is seeking to appoint an outstanding Knowledge Exchange Officer to provide administrative and project support to the Knowledge Exchange, Research and Business and Innovation teams.

Within the Knowledge Exchange team, we engage with businesses, NGOs, government agencies and other organisations to co-create publications, educational resources, residencies, art installations, online courses, bespoke design projects, toolkits, R&D innovation, community-led projects, industry-academia collaborations, open-source knowledge, dashboards, reports and papers, and funded research projects.  

Our projects promote wellbeing, diversity, inclusion and social cohesion through creativity and storytelling. KE takes many forms, and activities include collaborative research and development, consultancy, student and graduate projects, bespoke training, community projects, and cutting-edge content generation.  

About you

Candidates should have strong experience of planning and managing resources, including diary management, project support, events and workshops. You will have experience of working independently without direct supervision, planning and priorisiting your work to achieve individual and team objectives. 

We are seeking strong communicators, who feel comfortable working closely with industry stakeholders and have experience of producing presentations, written and visual communication outputs. Candidates should be skilled disseminating information to diverse audiences, with a good understanding of terms used in Higher Education (HE). We are particularly interested in candidates who can bring exceptional administrative skills to the role, alongside experience of working in HE.

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Deyka Hassan, Resourcing Assistant, lcc.jobs@lcc.arts.ac.uk

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

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