Careers and Enterprise Consultant

UWE Careers and Enterprise has a current permanent opportunity for a Careers and Enterprise Consultant. This post sits in our Careers and Enterprise Department, with a responsibility to manage the delivery of employability, enterprise skills and entrepreneurship services to students by providing specialist curricular, co/extra-curricular interventions aligned with Careers & Enterprise and College objectives.

This role is a key post in our Careers and Enterprise Department and works with the Senior Careers Consultant for the College of Arts, Technology and Environment, Deputy Head of Careers and Enterprise (Student Ventures) and Senior Enterprise Consultant to ensure our ambitious objectives for enterprise and entrepreneurship provision offer accessible and inclusive employability opportunities for UWE Bristol students and graduates.

You will be leading key projects and working in partnership with colleagues across UWE Bristol and within our wider service Library, Careers and Inclusivity. This service is made up of the following teams; the Careers & Enterprise Team, the Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Team and the Library Service. We work in collaboration with the University’s Colleges and other professional services departments to provide a comprehensive range of employability support to our students.

About you:

Experience of working in an enterprise capacity linked to the creative or cultural industries is essential. It is expected the successful candidate will have a background of working with clients or students in a careers or enterprise development capacity involving teaching or training activities and coaching, mentoring, career coaching or careers guidance. 

You will have good organisational skills as well as experience developing and managing projects and be adept at working in a large, complex organisation. The post-holder will require experience of working with complex data base systems; responsibilities will include extracting, analysing and interpreting data to produce complex reports and presenting information.

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively City Campus at Bower Ashton.

In addition to progressive pay rates, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including:

• a generous holiday allowance of 27 days pro rata
• up to 12.5 bank holiday/closure days per year
• hybrid working
• career average pension schemes available for all staff groups
• access to employee assistance programme
• 1^st month free to our Centre for Sport facilities for all new starters
• family friendly policies and wellbeing initiatives
• onsite nursery at our Frenchay Campus.
• Retail savings via the Wider Wallet scheme
• option to participate in the cycle to work scheme

Further information

If you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity please contact Leanne Newton on 0117 32 84604 or email: leanne.newton@uwe.ac.uk

This is a part-time, permanent post, working 26 hours per week.

Interview dates TBC.

As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. As we are unable to sponsor anyone requiring a visa for this role candidates must therefore be able to provide their own right to work in the UK.

Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to provide your right to work documents at your interview. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable.

Please note that UWE does not cover any visa or health surcharge costs.

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