Job Description

The Laidlaw Foundation is a philanthropic organisation dedicated to developing the next generation of ethical and inclusive leaders through education, research, and social impact initiatives.



It funds programs that empower students and scholars to lead with integrity, drive

positive change, and address global challenges. The Foundation's flagship initiatives include the Laidlaw Scholars Leadership and Research Programme, which provides university students worldwide with research opportunities and leadership training, and the Laidlaw Women's Leadership Fund, which supports women pursuing MBA degrees at leading business schools.



This role will play a pivotal part in supporting the Directors to run the Laidlaw

Leadership and Research Programme, as a part of a network of universities across the world, and to support the King's E-Lab in the administration and management of a broad range of activities.



The Laidlaw coordinator will also undertake a range of tasks on behalf of, and to

support, the Directors, including working with them on data management, planning, communications and outreach.

The E-Lab and the Laidlaw Foundation's Leadership and Research Programme are innovative initiatives, and the Laidlaw Co-ordinator would have opportunities to shape the role creatively.



For full details, please see the Candidate Pack below.



King's is a constituent College of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1441 by Henry VI as a place of education, religion, learning and research, the College comprises around 130 Fellows, 650 undergraduate and postgraduate students and 275 non-academic sta?.



The College is internationally recognised as a leading academic institution, boasting among its former students and Fellows, no fewer than eight Nobel laureates, including Patrick Blackett, Frederick Sanger, Sydney Brenner, Philip Noel-Baker and Oliver Hart, as well as in?uential ?gures such as Alan Turing, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes and Bernard Williams.



Among its most prominent living members are the novelists Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie, astronomer Martin Rees, sociologist Anthony Giddens, anthropologist Caroline Humphrey, former chair of the Bank of England Mervyn King, philanthropist David Sainsbury, molecular biologist Lesley Anne Glover, entrepreneur and computer scientist Hermann Hauser, composers Judith Weir (Master of the King's Music) and Errollyn Wallen, the ?rst black woman to have a composition performed at The Proms.



The undergraduate and postgraduate community is vibrant and diverse, priding itself on a friendly and inclusive atmosphere combining academic commitment with political engagement and a lively social and artistic scene.



King's has long been leading the way in undergraduate recruitment from the state sector. The College works very hard to attract the best applicants, regardless of background, and to encourage academically outstanding students from underrepresented communities to study at Cambridge. In 2018 it launched a transformational Student Access and Support Initiative designed to improve equality of access and opportunity, and to help combat entrenched social and economic disadvantage.



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