Employer Engagement Adviser (Integrated Experience)

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% at postgraduate level), from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

In the last decade City has almost tripled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research. During this period City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realising its vision of being a leading global university.

Background

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, University of London students to develop their employability.

City has made significant investment in an Employability Development Plan (EDP) which will see employability embedded across the curriculum. Professional Level Experience and the Micro-Placements Module and Industry Led Projects play a key part in achieving this.  The work of the integrated experience team will have a high profile within the institution.

Responsibilities

You will contribute to our strategic objectives relating to employability on the Micro-Placement Programme and Industry Led Projects. You will maintain and cultivate strong links with employer partners of all sizes, with a view to sourcing professional-level work placements and opportunities for our students. You will work collaboratively with academic staff and staff within Careers and Employability, ensuring a seamless approach to the development and execution of provision. You will work to target and timeline in a fast-paced environment to meet targets and objectives. 

Person Specification

You will have relevant experience within a business development setting and demonstrate effective stakeholder management/business development abilities.

You will have excellent organisation skills and experience in forward planning. Effective time management is required along with excellent resilience whilst working in a target driven environment. You will be pro-active, creative and able to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

Additional Information

City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

Closing date: 27th June 2022 at 11:59pm

Interviews are scheduled for w/c 4th July 2022.

To apply and for more information about the post please use the links below.

City, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture, for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or social class. For more information on our approaches to encouraging an inclusive environment, please see our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Pages.

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