Job Description
The University of London Careers Service is recruiting a Careers Consultant to work with students and graduates from St George’s, University of London.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team working with an interesting and varied student group. As a Careers Consultant, you will help students and graduates to acquire the skills necessary to choose their future path, find employment, and manage their careers successfully. You will achieve this by providing high quality, client-centred careers and employability support through a combination of one-to-one guidance, workshops and events, and other employability-related activities. These will be delivered both remotely and in-person, all tailored to the bespoke needs of students on the specialised programmes at St George’s. A key part of this role will be for you to build strategic relationships with academic staff, alumni, student representatives, employers and other key stakeholders to design and deliver the best possible employability support. You will also help develop online resources and learning materials.
The St George’s Careers Consultants are an integral part of the University of London Careers Service and share best practice and support with the other Small and Specialist Colleges within the University, as well as the team supporting the University of London’s distance and flexible learners. The University of London Careers Service is part of The Careers Group, so team members also collaborate with colleagues from across The Careers Group on activities that enhance the quality and effectiveness of our services.
St George’s has adopted a hybrid working model. Although flexible working can be requested, there is a requirement for at least two days per week working onsite (pro rata for part time staff) – which equates to one day a week on campus for the postholder. This model will be reviewed periodically and the postholder will be expected to work to the same model as St George’s staff.
An overview of The Careers Group
The Careers Group of the University of London is an expertise-led, collaborative membership organisation, set up to serve predominantly, but not exclusively, the member institutions of the University of London. The Group comprises the careers services of:
- City, University London
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- King’s College London
- St Mary’s University
- SOAS
- University College London
- The University of London Careers Service
The University of London Careers Service supports both distance and flexible learning students, and those at small specialist colleges in the University’s federation including the Courtauld, Royal Veterinary College, St George’s Medical School, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the School of Advanced Study. It also provides careers provision to the Institute of Cancer Research, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and the London Arts & Humanities Partnership.
All The Careers Group institutional services are closely aligned to the strategies for education, employability, enterprise and student experience of the institutions that they serve. This means that staff will partner with academics, professional services colleagues and students on creation and delivery of key initiatives that support the future outcomes of students. The group has over 250 staff and serves a population well in excess of 150,000 students, researchers and graduates.
The Group HQ is at Stewart House and contains the Director's office and a small central team, which supports the institutional services by coordinating recruitment and resourcing, providing professional development, supporting research and evidence-based practice, overseeing the creation and curation of shared resources, and undertaking special projects on behalf of member services and the Group as a whole. Stewart House is also the base for the University of London Careers Service.
In October 2020, The Careers Group began implementation of a new action plan for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, shaped by external expertise in inclusion, social justice and anti-racism, and led by the Director of The Careers Group, Dr Kate Daubney. This plan takes both a collective and individual approach to reviewing learning and practice in equality and diversity, striving to improve our understanding of the differences in and the impacts of lived experience both across our staff community and among our students and other partners. We are seeking to address structural inequality and obstacles to progression in our organisation through a range of actions including: establishing an internal Advisory Panel of staff of diverse heritage to inform the Group’s strategic priorities; reviewing our manager progression processes, experiences and data; and embedding approaches to building and maintaining safe spaces for all.
From October 2022, The Careers Group will offer a unique new postgraduate online learning module: Strategic Approaches to Careers and Employability in Higher Education. This module will be offered as part of The University of London’s Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. The module has been designed for global higher education colleagues with responsibility for or an interest in careers and employability strategy.
Further information
For more information on the role, please read the Job Description and Job Pack at the bottom of this page.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Victoria Wade, Head of Careers, University of London Careers Service on victoria.wade@careers.lon.ac.uk.
To be considered for this opportunity, please submit your application by clicking ‘Apply for job’ at the bottom of this page before the closing date at midnight on Tuesday 6 September 2022.
Interviews and assessment activities will take place on Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 September 2022 (you will only be required to attend on one of these days). Panel interview and assessment activities will take place virtually, via MS Teams.
The University of London is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive working environment where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We particularly encourage applications from members of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic communities as this group is currently under-represented in senior levels within the University. All appointments will be made on merit, based on the criteria identified in the job description.
We look forward to receiving your application.