King's Culture Ambassador

Job Description

From 3 October 2024, Lost and Found: Stories of Sanctuary and Belonging, a new season from King's Culture, will explore the vital themes of safe spaces, compassion, and how we perceive the needs of our fellow humans. Through a series of free events, exhibitions, and creative experiences held across the Strand campus and at King's College London, this season will explore topics such as migration, home, belonging, personal sanctuary, and hope for the future. 

Developed in collaboration with researchers, creatives, policy professionals, and people with lived experience, Lost & Found aims to provide meaningful insights into the complex issues of security and sanctuary in today's world. 

We are currently seeking Ambassadors to join our team for this exciting and impactful season. We are looking for individuals, preferably with lived experience related to the themes of the season, who are passionate about sharing stories of belonging and compassion. As an ambassador, you will work on a casual basis, helping us bring this important project to life by supporting events, exhibitions, and public engagement activities. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

Complete the training for the role. 

Represent King's Culture and its partners in a positive and empathetic manner. 

Assist with the smooth running of events and exhibitions, acting as a welcoming presence for attendees. 

Engage with visitors, providing information and facilitating meaningful discussions about the themes of migration, belonging, and sanctuary. 

Help create a compassionate, inclusive environment for participants and audiences. 

Approach members of the public/visitors to undertake a digital questionnaire. 

Signpost to various points locally including public toilet facilities. 

Flag unexpected emergencies to staff and help to guide and evacuate people to a safe place. 

Keep vigilant for any strange behaviour and reports from the public inform event staff/security asap.   



Qualifications

N/A



Skills

Essential  

Strong communication and interpersonal skills. 

Flexibility to work casually, including evenings and weekends, from October 2024. 

Passion for the themes explored in Lost & Found: Stories of Sanctuary and Belonging

Confident approaching members of the public.    

 

Desirable  

Lived experience related to migration, displacement, or finding sanctuary is highly valued. 

Experience in event support, cultural engagement, or community work is desirable.  

Ability use your own initiative and to be proactive and motivated. 

Awareness of King?s Health and Safety procedures.  

 

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Assist with design and formatting of the newsletter for the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, ensuring that the newsletter conforms to King?s branding guidelines 



Qualifications

NONE



Skills

Experience using Microsoft Word for design projects such as newsletters

Dates: 1st - 31st October 2024

Please apply by Friday 27 September 2024. 

*GRAPHIC DESIGNER* 

Please detail what the candidate will be working on and the deliverable that they will be expected to produce. 

Context: King's Civic Leadership Academy (CLA) offers students (who are given the title ?Civic Scholars?) and community organisations across London, the opportunity to work together on addressing some of the capital's most complex social issues, whilst learning what makes and how to become better leaders and changemakers. We do this in two ways ? a Leadership Development Curriculum and practical experiences with our community partners. This academic year 2024-5 marks six years of the programme and we have some data from the past two years that we have collated. We would like this to be put into an engaging report.

Deliverable: To produce a visually engaging evaluation report

What exists

Your specific tasks

  • Review the data from the past two years and decide how to visually present this in a report
  • Draft 2-3 design examples of how these could be presented 
  • Design the report and share it with the team
  • Depending on how this goes, there may be an opportunity to work on another document.


Qualifications

We require no particular qualifications for this role but we do expect the applicants to have solid experience using design software. This could be from the Adobe suite or it could be strong use of programs like Canva.



Skills

Please give an overview of the skills you would expect the candidate to demonstrate during their internship.

  • Knowledge of King's College London's branding guidelines - including font package, use of colours, logo placement and image use etc is essential

Other skills we?d expect the intern to demonstrate include: 

  • Creativity & judgement: Ability to review the data and consider a number of ways this could be presented.
  • Excellent organisation & time-management: there is a tight turnaround for this project and so we need the candidate to work effectively, use their independent judgement
  • Strong communication and responsive: Email is the main form of communication and we need the candidate to communicate their availability and respond in a timely manner
  • Adaptability: receptive to amendments, feedback or change of direction
  • Attention to detail: ensuring that the designs are clear and neat

To apply

  • Maximum 250-word statement which should address:
    • Your design experience. This does not need to be extensive - please just share what work you have done, specifically with King's if applicable and what design software you are proficient using.
    • Include a link to your portfolio or links to designs you have worked on
    • How you manage your time and your organisation techniques
    • Your availability for a 20-minute interview during the week commencing Monday 30 September. Please note that depending on the number of applications we receive, we may not choose to carry out interviews.
    • If you have any questions, please email civicleadership@kcl.ac.uk

The Engagement and Insights Officer provides insight, communications and engagement support to the Associate Director, London Engagement within the International, Engagement & Service Directorate (IES).  

The post holder will deliver a series of focused research projects to identify/map activities across the University that align with the strategic priorities of our home boroughs (Lambeth, Southwark and Westminster). They will also deliver a broader research project focused on identifying/mapping King?s national partnerships and activities. Alongside this, the post holder will provide internal/external communications, engagement and administrative support to the Associate Director, London Engagement and the Senior Engagement Communications Manager.

IES is a new Directorate at King?s that brings together the expertise of teams engaging with communities and partners locally, national and globally. The Directorate provides strategic leadership for the university?s engagement at home and abroad, while providing a home for a portfolio of innovative programmes that generate and measure impact and serve the communities we work with and for. IES is home to some of King?s most innovative and impact-driven programming including Sanctuary, the Afe Babalola Centre for Transnational EducationKing?s Volunteering, One King?s Impact, among others, as well as our civic and place-based engagement in London, and across the world.

Key responsibilities:

  • Lead focused research projects that identify activities across the University that align with the strategic priorities of our home boroughs (Lambeth, Southwark and Westminster). Through independent research, using internal and external sources, deliver research/insight reports that demonstrate how King?s is supporting the strategic ambitions of our home boroughs. 
  • Lead a research project to identify/map King?s College London?s national partnerships, relationships and activities across education, research, service and engagement through independent research using internal and external sources. 
  • Provide hands-on administrative support, including email triage for London Engagement address. 
  • Provide internal/external communications and engagement support to the Senior Engagement Communications Manager for IES.
  • Support the development of CRM to build and expand the contacts database for all audiences.
  • Support with the development of engagement materials such as PowerPoint presentations.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.



Qualifications

NONE



Skills
  • Proven research skills including experience working with and synthesizing different sources 
  • Ability to understand and translate information for internal and external audiences
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
  • Experience of delivering administrative support
  • Ability to complete tasks whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail
  • Ability to work independently, prioritise competing demands, and manage workload effectively on time
  • Experience of working within a team towards set objectives.

 

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