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StellarHE Leadership Programme 2023 – Recruiting Now!

December 9, 2022 / Jake Orros

StellarHE is a targeted leadership development programme to support Black and Minority Ethnic academics, researchers and Professional Services staff. The programme has been designed specifically to develop and implement leadership strategies that reflect the unique challenges and experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic academic and professional staff across Higher Education.

King’s is dedicated to developing and supporting diverse talent and inclusive leadership and the university is committed to supporting members of the King’s community to take part in the StellarHE programme. The programme is for staff who aspire to operate at a senior, strategic level here at King’s and contribute to our institutional commitment to advance race equality.

The application process for the 2023 is now open!

Updated Deadline: 17:00 on Wednesday 18^th January 2023

What is included?

The scheme includes:

Ten one-day virtual workshops
Leadership diagnostics
Two individual Borderless Coaching sessions
One virtual Action Learning Set
Completion of a Leadership Challenge project
The programme also includes the opportunity to join the Beyond StellarHE Alumni network.

Key Programme Dates

6 March 2023 Readiness Session
17 March 2023 Managers Race to Action Session
20 March 2023 M1 – Orientation & My Leadership Journey
3 April 2023 M2 – Race Strategic Context in HE
18 April 2023 M3 – Authentic Leadership, Identity and Race
4 May 2023 M4 – Leadership Purpose & Vision
24 May 2023 M5 – Status Now – Leadership MoT
April/May 2023 Action Learning and Assessments – Factor8 & Borderless Coaching
8 June 2023 M6 – iLead 360 – Cracking the corporate Code
Jun/Jul 2023 Action Learning
12 July 2023 M7– Presence – iBrand & Communicating with Impact*
13 July 2023 M8 – Career Strategy and Leaderships Signature*
September 2023 Coaching

*All the workshops are virtual apart from those annotated. Find out more on the StellarHE website.

Participants would be expected to participate in all of the sessions.

Programme cost

The Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team intend to fully fund up to 1 place open to staff from across the university and part-fund 2 places on the scheme in collaboration with faculties & directorates. In addition, many faculties & directorates from across KCL have also committed to funding additional places should their staff be successfully selected. A list of faculties & directorates who have agreed to fund places will be added to this page in due course.

The programme fee is £4,495 + VAT per participant.
Successful applicants who are parents and carers are eligible for further financial support to enable them to participate from the Carers’ Career Development Fund.

Eligibility criteria

StellarHE is targeted at Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) individuals who aspire to senior leadership positions in Higher Education.
StellarHE is targeted at middle and senior managers – we advise that applicants are currently in roles grade 6 and above (see FAQs below).
Professional services, research and academic staff are all eligible to apply.
Staff members on fixed term contracts can apply for StellarHE as long as their contract continues at least 6 months after the programme has finished or you can provide evidence it will be extended.
You must be available for all the programme dates (see above)

How to apply

Speak to your manager about StellarHE and confirm they are happy to support your application. If you apply the EDI team will contact them to ask for a supporting statement.

Check that you are available for all the dates listed above and meet the eligibility criteria.

Complete the expression of interest form by Midday Monday 16^th January 2023.

You can apply for a place here.

How will my application be selected & assessed?

The answers in your application form, the personal statement and your manager’s statement will all be used to assess your suitability for the programme.

The application questions in the form will each be scored from 1 (does not meet the criteria) to 5 (significantly exceeds the criteria).

Your application will also then be scored against the King’s criteria.

The King’s criteria asses the strength of the application with regards to how the applicant demonstrates the positive impacts the programme could have on their career, their team and on race equality at King’s.

The impact of the programme on the individual and their career, i.e.:
- Show they have proactively thought about career progression/development and how StellarHE will feed into this.
- Demonstrate their capability and potential as a manager/leader.

The impact of the programme on the applicant’s team, department and King’s more widely, i.e.:
- Show how they will apply learning to others, both locally and more widely.
- What benefit this will have.

The impact of the programme on race equality at King’s, i.e.:
- Demonstrate a commitment to Race Equality at King’s or externally (e.g., active membership of the Race Equality Staff network, personal activism in team/dept etc).

As you write your application you should think about how you are demonstrating these King’s criteria.

B-MEntor Scheme 2023 – recruitment now open!

December 8, 2022 / Jake Orros

B-MEntor is a cross-institutional London-wide mentoring scheme for academic, research and professional services staff from Black, Asian, Mixed and minority ethnic backgrounds.

B-MEntor is run in partnership with Queen Mary University London, King’s College London, St George’s University of London, University of the Arts London, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The programme supports King’s Race Equality Action Plan, specifically our commitment to attract, appoint and invest in talent.

There are two schemes-one for academic and research staff, and one for professional services staff. Please see below for information about each scheme and how to register your interest.

The deadline to register your interest is Thursday 5th January 2023

Information for Professional Services staff

The requirements for participation in the programme are as follows:

Mentors must be professional services staff from any ethnic background, from first-line managers (managing one person) to senior management- this tends to be grades 6-8
Mentees should be professional services staff up to the level of first-line managers (managing one person)- this tends to be grades 1-6- and self-identify as being from a Black, Asian, Mixed or minority ethnic background, i.e. not white European.

The mentoring period will be approximately one year, and a training and support package is offered for all parties. The selection and matching of mentors and mentees will take place from mid-January.

You must be available for the training on the following dates (all taking place online):

Mentees Thursday 12th January at 10:00-11:30am or Thursday 19th January at 10:00-11:30am
Mentors Thursday 26th January at 2pm -3:30pm or Thursday 2nd February at 10:00-11:30am

Please register your expression of interest by Thursday 5th January 2023.

Mentee Registration

Mentor Registration

Information for Academic and Research staff

The requirements for participation in the programme are as follows:

Mentors: must be at Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor/Reader or Professorial level. Mentors can be from any ethnic background.

Mentees: should be at Post-Doctoral to Lecturer level and self-identify as being from a Black, Asian, Mixed or minority ethnic background, i.e. not white European.

The mentoring period will be approximately one year, and a training and support package is offered for all parties. The selection and matching of mentors and mentees will take place from mid-January.

You must be available for the training on the following dates (all taking place online):

Mentors Wednesday 25th January at 10:00-11:30am or Wednesday 1st February at 2pm -3:30pm
Mentees Wednesday 11th January at 2pm -3:30pm or Wednesday 18th January at 2pm -3:30pm

Please register your expression of interest by Thursday 5th January 2023.

Mentee Registration

Mentor Registration

More more information please contact Jennifer Hastings, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Manager or email diversity@kcl.ac.uk, if you have any queries about this scheme. A complete list of FAQs can be found on UCL’s B-MEntor webpage.

It Starts With You – Mutual Mentoring and Data

August 18, 2021 / Tyler John

EDI Consultant and Mutual Mentoring lead, Nicole Robinson, explains the link between data and King’s Mentoring Schemes, and how a better understanding of our our university can benefit all staff.

Have you ever wondered what King’s does with your personal data?

It is common to see information about data protection and storage, but you may wonder why we need this information from you in the first place. You may be reluctant to provide this information to your organisation. This may be especially true when we are asking you to provide personal details, such as your sexual orientation or trans history.

One of the positive outcomes of providing your data however, no matter who you are, is that it helps us to develop evidence-based, targeted equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) interventions including our Mutual Mentoring and More than Mentoring schemes.

In December 2020 King’s launched the first pilot wave of our Mutual Mentoring scheme. Mutual Mentoring aims to increase confidence across King’s in championing all areas of EDI by matching a senior leader with a volunteer who has knowledge or experience of a prioritised area of EDI. The senior leader, in turn, can offer guidance on leadership, career progression and development. The scheme is currently in the pilot stage, and there are hopes to scale it up in future.

In the first wave of the pilot, EDI Project Officer Lauren Blackwood was matched with VP Education, Professor Nicola Phillips for six months. In reflecting on the partnership, Lauren said;

‘We both felt safe and comfortable to talk quite frankly. I was very surprised about how authentic I felt I could be on a frequent basis. It was great to be signposted to academic materials related to my interests, and to understand why specific approaches were taken and the constraints that exist at different levels. I feel proud of my growth over the last two years, and I have gained so much from both the Mutual and More than Mentoring schemes.

The More than Mentoring scheme is separate from the Mutual Mentoring scheme. For the last four years, the scheme has matched mentors and mentees with shared lived experience to foster deeper understanding and connection between members of the King’s community. Staff who have participated in the scheme have reported feeling more connected and supported, and many staff return to participate year-on-year, often moving from mentee to mentor. The scheme has grown each year, partly because of testimonies and encouragement from other staff. Staff like Nirmal Sampathkumar, a Post-Doctoral Researcher from IoPPN, who took part in the scheme this year. Nirmal shared his experience working with Lucy to colleagues as part of a collaborative webinar, and encouraged others to join the scheme;

https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/af2c40dc-7d0e-4460-96af-6c7beac80c15

We’re looking forward to opening the scheme again in the new academic year.

To be able to run positive action initiatives, King’s must be able to evidence why they are needed, which is why King’s needs to be informed about your personal data. King’s mentoring schemes are a direct result of staff updating and providing their equal opportunities and diversity monitoring data. When these interventions are recognised by external accreditations such as the Race and Gender Equality charter marks, they also improve our ability to access funding for even more initiatives: it flows back into research, back into our staff experience, and to supporting our students.

diagram showing the progression of how data is collected and used

How is your data collected and what is it used for?

And it starts with you.

To submit your Equal Opportunity data today: 

Log into HR digital services 
Access My Profile (click your photo in the top left or right-hand corner of the screen) 
Click Equal Opportunities in the drop-down menu on the left and update the details in My Profile.

All your personal data is anonymised will never be identifiable. Visit Equal Opportunity Data webpages to see how your data is used and protected. 