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LSE Faith Centre and Religion and Global Society

Faith Centre and Religion and Global Society Manager

Salary range £37,197 pa – £54,094 pa inclusive of London allowance

Band 6 post with potential for Band 7 salary extension

This is a full-time, permanent post

The LSE Faith Centre runs programmes and events promoting religious literacy and transformational interfaith leadership, supporting students to explore, challenge and question religious difference. The Centre houses a wide range of religious and wellbeing activities on campus, plays a key role in promoting good campus relations and community-building, and supports the promotion of religion and belief as a protected diversity characteristic across the School.

We are seeking to appoint a Centre Manager to work closely with the Centre Director to provide leadership within the team and ensure the efficient management of both the Faith Centre and Religion and Global Society, including their personnel, physical and financial resources. They will take overall responsibility for the smooth day-to-day running of the programmes and activities of the Centre and Research Unit and assist in the development and implementation of wider administrative policies with the Centre and the School.

Candidates should have excellent organisational and administrative skills and experience of staff and budget management. They should have familiarity with various media, both traditional and digital, and ability to effectively learn new technologies. Candidates should also be able to demonstrate a proven ability to plan, implement and evaluate a variety of initiatives in accordance with specific objectives and an ability to learn from experiences or feedback and adapt to new approaches and innovations to make improvements. A sensitivity to cultural and religious conflicts is essential, and a working knowledge of the main world religions and experience in interfaith dialogue activities is highly desirable.

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave and excellent training and development opportunities.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.

If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email c.howes@lse.ac.uk.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 28 October 2021 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.