Job Description
Queen Mary Careers and Enterprise is recruiting for a Team Manager (Faculties of Science and Engineering and Medicine and Dentistry). This is a great opportunity to take a leadership role in our forward thinking Careers and Enterprise team to make a difference to the diverse and inspiring students at Queen Mary.
You will have the chance to contribute to the vision, mission and operation of Careers and Enterprise by line managing and leading a team of careers consultants and student employability advisers, supporting them to deliver cohesive and high quality advice and guidance services to students from one or two particular faculties. Applicants don’t need prior knowledge of these disciplines or experience of supporting students studying these areas but must be committed to learning about this.
Alongside your Team Manager role you will perform careers consultant duties, so applicants should have prior experience of working as a Careers Consultant. You will join our Careers and Enterprise Management Team of 8, and have the opportunity to take an active role in it. You will also work closely with the Deputy Head and other Faculty Team Managers to ensure the smooth running of the Faculty Teams.
We have a distinctively diverse student population for a Russell Group university: 90% of our students are from state schools; 70% are BAME; 57% are the first in their family to enter Higher Education. Social justice is at the heart of the University and what we do. Come and join us as we support our students to achieve their maximum potential.
You can find the full role profile in the attached document. To be considered, please submit your application by clicking ‘apply for job’ at the bottom of this page before the closing deadline of midnight, Sunday 19th September 2021.
If you would like an informal chat about the role please contact Abi Gaston, Deputy Head of Careers and Enterprise on a.gaston@qmul.ac.uk. Read more here about Queen Mary and Careers and Enterprise.
An overview of The Careers Group
The Careers Group, University of London was established over 100 years ago and is the largest network of higher education careers services in Europe. Its mission is as follows:
Our Group exists to make each of our member services the best that it can be strategically and operationally in the context of its institution and to ensure that each service is demonstrably better as a member of the group than it would be if it were not.
As a collective, our Group will be highly visible as thought and practice leaders in higher education careers and employability nationally and globally. In turn, the leading edge thinking and practice will enhance delivery in member services and bring reputational benefits to the University of London centrally and to member institutions.
The Careers Group, 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, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Goldsmiths University of London, King’s College London, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, the Royal Veterinary College, SOAS, St George’s Medical School, St Mary’s University, University of London and UCL. There is additional provision for the School of Advanced Study, the Institute of Cancer Research, technē, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and London Arts & Humanities Partnership. All the institutional services are closely aligned to the learning and teaching, student experience, employability and enterprise strategies of the institutions that they serve. 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 Senate House and contains the Director's office and a small central team which supports the institutional services by coordinating recruitment and resourcing, providing training and 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. Senate House is also the base for the Head of College Careers Services for the smaller specialist institutes of the university.
In October 2020, The Careers Group began implementation of a new action plan for Equality and Diversity, shaped by external expertise in social justice and anti-racism, and led by the new 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 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.
The University of London created a new academic strategy during 2020, which includes the establishment of a new Centre of Excellence for Careers and Employability, which will be one of five new Centres of Excellence in the University. The establishment of the new Centre of Excellence for Careers and Employability will initiate a period of review and reflection for The Careers Group, both senior leadership and colleagues in all member services, to determine how best to use the concept of the Centre and the community of staff to enable services to meet and respond to the swiftly changing landscapes of higher education and work. Part of this review includes developing new approaches to enable The Careers Group, through the senior leadership and staff, to demonstrate our commitment to creating a safe space for all staff and to celebrating and promoting equality and diversity, through our culture, processes and community across all member services.
Further information
For more information on the role, please read the Job Description 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 19th September 2021. Please note that we are currently advertising two Team Manager roles (one permanent and one fixed term). If you wish to apply for both positions, you will need to submit two separate applications. Please find the other listing on
https://london.ac.uk/about-us/work-for-us.
Interviews will take place between 27 September and 15 October 2021, online.
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.