Placements and Employability Manager: Academic Partnerships

At Leeds Trinity University, we aspire to make a difference to the people, the professions, and the places that we serve, and we are looking for talented and enthusiastic people to join our University community.  We are ranked top in Yorkshire for learning community and pride ourselves on being the University where our students are a name, not just a number. The University has a distinctive, employability-focused educational offer and works closely with employers to address the skills needs of today’s workforce. Applications are invited for the following post:

Placements and Employability Manager (Academic Partnerships)

Hours of Work:            Full-time – 35 hours per week

Contract type:             Permanent

Salary:                         The starting salary will be from £36,333 up to £43,155 per annum in

                                    Grade 7, depending on qualifications and experience

Leeds Trinity University is committed to enhancing its relationships with a wide variety of collaborative partner organisations to offer outstanding educational opportunities and experience to a diverse range of students across the UK and Internationally.

The Graduate Outcomes and Enterprise Directorate are seeking to appoint a Placements and Employability Manager to lead the Academic Partnerhips Placements and Employability Team which works to ensure our partners placement led activity meets quality and reporting standards, whilst enabling our partners to effectively deliver on sourcing, promoting and authorising placements within the Leeds Trinity University (LTU) framework.

Additionally this role will roll out aspects of the LTU Careers+Placements provision in collaboration with other directorate managers to support partners to effectively implement initiatives which will enable our students to achieve positive graduate level outcomes. The post will also act as the key point of contact for our partnership network in the space of Graduate Outcomes and ensure smooth communication between the Graduate Outcomes and Enterprise Directorate and partner representatives.

The successful candidate will have a track record of establishing effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders along with experience in administrative systems and processes to track, record and manage high volume activity. Candidates should be skilled in managing a range of projects and initiatives, working collaboratively to achieve institutional and partner goals.

Leeds Trinity University values diversity and inclusion and particularly encourages applications from the following groups as they are currently under-represented at this level within the University: Women, LGBT+ and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants, as well as candidates with disabilities, whether hidden or otherwise. The University will consider all forms of flexible working arrangements.

This role will be located at Leeds Trinity University campus in Horsforth, Leeds with regular travel to our partners. Through our agile working framework, there will be the option to spend time working remotely to support work life balance, which will be discussed further with candidates at interview.

For an informal conversation about the post, please contact Emily Timson (Director of Graduate Outcomes and Enterprise) at e.timson@leedstrinity.ac.uk

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 18 April 2023

Interviews for this post are expected to take place on Thursday 27 April 2023

Further details and the online application are available at: http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/jobs.

If you have any queries about the application process, please email jobs@leedstrinity.ac.uk or call 0113 283 7130.

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