Programme Co-ordinator

SCHOOL / SERVICE

School of Health & Medical Sciences

DEPARTMENT

Health Services Research and Management

LOCATION

Myddelton Street Building

CONTRACT TYPE

Fixed-term

JOB CATEGORY

SALC / Clerical / Technical / Support

HOURS

Part-time

SALARY MIN

£34,610

SALARY MAX

£42,254

PUBLICATION DATE

07-Nov-2025

CLOSING DATE

16-Nov-2025

City St George's, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George's, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions. Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.

This post is an exciting opportunity to be part of the North London scheme for the National Institute for Health Research Inspiring Students into Research Programme (INSIGHT) at the School of Health and Medical Sciences. This role will sit within the Health Services Research and Management division, and will work closely with the programme director of the Master of Research (MRes) and other members of the NIHR INSIGHT North London team at City St George's, University of London and Queen Mary University of London.

The postholder will be the point of contact for all student applications to the INSIGHT programme. The postholder will co-ordinate internships across the participating universities, and manage applications to the North London INSIGHT Research Masters studentships and all joint training offers within the Masters programmes. The post will initially be at 0.4 FTE, and from 1st April 2027 will be at 0.2 FTE for the required co-ordination of the final part-time students of the scheme, including managing joint training provision between Queen Mary University of London and City and collecting student/ graduate outcome data.

This post is an exciting opportunity to be part of the North London scheme for the National Institute for Health Research Inspiring Students into Research Programme (INSIGHT) at the School of Health and Medical Sciences. This role will sit within the Health Services Research and Management division. The postholder will be the point of contact for all student applications to INSIGHT. They will co-ordinate internships across the participating universities, and manage applications to the North London INSIGHT Research Masters studentships.

Main Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate the planning, organisation, and publicity for all engagement activities across the partners, including working with our partners to organise dates and speakers, organising internship mentors/ hosts and managing applications to the cross-partner internship scheme.
• Identify, collate and maintain details of students affiliated to the organisation
• Be the main point of contact for all studentship-related queries
• Advise applicants on eligibility criteria and application procedures.
• To organise events and networking opportunities to promote the scheme

Other duties

• To help maintain the INSIGHT website
• Co-ordinate arrangements for a variety of meetings and symposia, internal and external.
• Obtain information from staff for input into reports
• Build productive working relationships with relevant University staff and external partners.
• Any other reasonable duties as requested by line manager.

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential:

• Educated to degree level in a relevant field or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential:

• Administrative experience, ideally gained in a University or the NHS.
• Understanding of health and social care professions e.g. through work or volunteering in the NHS or other organisations.
• Experience of organising events, conferences, symposia or other similar activities.
• Evidence of advancing your knowledge and understanding of diversity issues (e.g. through organisational training or informal learning).

Desirable:

• Evidence of contributing to the delivery of cultural change in the furtherance of the principles of equality, equity, and inclusion.

Skills and Abilities

Essential:

• Initiative driven, self motivated and able to work independently to identify areas of improvement and to implement remedial action.
• Excellent IT skills including use of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and internet research skills.
• Ability to liaise confidently and tactfully with a range of stakeholders (e.g. academic staff, students, external funding bodies).
• Flexible and able to multi-task.
• Ability to relate to individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and work well as part of a team.
• Ability to meet deadlines and prioritise own workload to ensure that deadlines and targets are met.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Desirable:

• Ability to acquire knowledge of complex information quickly.

Please note: This role is only open to redeployees at City St George's. Applications from individuals who are not redeployees will not be considered at this time.

To apply, please email your CV and cover letter to with the job title and number, demonstrating how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification.

Closing date: 16th November 2025 at 11:59pm.

The selection process will involve an interview. Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage.

To apply and for more information about the post please use the links below.

City St George's offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George's, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City St George's operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

At City St George's, subject to agreement, relevant Professional Services roles may be undertaken in a hybrid way, involving a mixture of working on campus and at home each week.

Where a hybrid working arrangement can be accommodated, it is expected that colleagues will spend the majority (at least 60%) of their usual working time on campus each week. Specific details will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate. A hybrid working arrangement will not detract from any comprehensive induction, that will include relevant on-site activities.

Regardless of where colleagues are working, City St George's, University of London's premises will be their primary and contractual place of work.

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