Job Description
Queen Mary now recruiting for a permanent Careers Consultant (Graduate Coach) to work with their finalists and graduates. This is a new role and part of an exciting new team!
Do you want a role where you can help other people to fulfil their potential and where you are provided with constant opportunities to develop yourself professionally?
Do you want to work in a forward-focussed organisation surrounded by enthusiastic, innovative and supportive colleagues?
As the Careers Consultant (Graduate Coach) you will identify and support Queen Mary finalists and graduates who need further support in their career planning. This will mainly provided through one-to-one appointments. You will also deliver workshops, webinars and develop online resources and learning materials. You will be part of a new small Graduate Support Team within Careers and Enterprise. You will work closely with a Graduate Enterprise Adviser and Graduate Opportunities Employer Liaison Officer to improve the career outcomes of Queen Mary graduates and meet internal targets. In applying for this role, you will also be joining The Careers Group.
Queen Mary University of London is a Russell Group institution and one of the UK's leading research universities. Working at Queen Mary means being part of a unique, global University with a long and distinctive history. Our founding institutions were set up to provide hope and opportunity for the less privileged and otherwise under-represented and the university today remains committed to improving social justice. With staff and students drawn from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds and heritages, we welcome applications from diverse candidates.
We welcome applications from candidates from those experienced in careers advisory roles or career changers who can demonstrate the relevant skills outlined in the job description.
The role can be done as full time or job share.
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 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 21 November 2021.
Selection exercises will take place both remotely and in person between 29th November to 17th December 2021. Where relevant, MS Teams links will be sent to candidates in advance of interviews.
For an informal chat please contact Andy Walsh, Acting Deputy Head of Careers and Enterprise, on andrew.walsh@qmul.ac.uk. We look forward to receiving your application.
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.