Job Description
City University of London is looking to recruit 2.8 generalist Careers Consultants which means you will be working on central activities such as one to one guidance and group delivery to students from all disciplines, at all levels. The roles are offered on a full or part-time, permanent basis.
Importantly, City has a significant amount of embedded employability within the curriculum, and this will increase in the next two years. You will be designing and teaching on modules as well as carrying out effective, high level stakeholder engagement with academic colleagues. You will enjoy implementing a pedagogical approach to employability, often delivering lectures to large numbers of students. You will want to explore new ways of maximising technology to provide a truly blended learning experience and apply learning design principles to your delivery.
All delivery is likely to be in-person and online. Currently City is conducting a hybrid working pilot whereby staff are expected to be on campus 60% of their working time. This is subject to regular review so may be subject to change in the longer term.
An overview of City Careers and Employability
Founded in 1894, City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location. City attracts around 20,000 students (over 40% postgraduate level) from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.
City Careers and Employability provides employability learning and careers information, advice and guidance to students and graduates of City, University of London. Our mission is to support all City students to develop their employability. There are currently over 30 staff members split into the following teams: Careers Consultants, Employer Engagement, Information and Data, Student Development and Unitemps.
City is entering and exciting period of growth for employability learning, having agreed significant investment in an Institution-wide Career Activation Programme. The vision of the plan is to embed career focus learning and professional level experience across the undergraduate curriculum so that every undergraduate has access to employability support. The investment covers staff within the service and academic schools to deliver on a number of innovative approaches to provide professional level experience plus additional Careers Consultants to design and deliver career focus learning in existing academic modules. Careers Consultants at City work closely with Module Leads to ensure effective embedding.
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 colleagues 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 attached.
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 Sunday the 7th of May 2023.
Interviews will take place take place in person during the week commencing the 22nd of May 2023 with a final round in the week commencing the 5th of June 2023.
If shortlisted, please notify us on tcg.hr@london.ac.uk before booking an interview if you are likely to incur travel expenses as part of your involvement in our selection process, as we will only cover these if agreed in advance.
We look forward to receiving your application.
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.
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