School Partnership Advisor Team Leader

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:

School Partnership Advisor Team Leader

Hours of Work:            35 hours per week (1.0fte)

Contract type:             Permanent

Salary:                         The starting salary will be from £30,487 up to £32,982 per annum (pro rata) in Grade 6a, depending on qualifications and experience.

The successful candidate will lead an experienced and committed team of School Placement Advisors who source and manage school-based placements for students on our undergraduate and post graduate programmes. The postholder will oversee all operational arrangements, the partnership engagement process of delivery partners, ensuring consistent approaches to communications and systems are established. The postholder will play a key role in developing and maintain partnerships between Leeds Trinity and external education partners. Reporting to the School Partnerships Manager within the Graduate Outcomes and Enterprise Directorate working closely with the School of Education.

The successful candidate will have significant working experience and/or knowledge of partnership and placement activities in the education sector. They will be solution focussed and have excellent interpersonal communication skills, a proactive approach to relationship building and experience of systems management and data handling. Resourcefulness and well-developed administration and organisation skills are essential.

This role will be located at Leeds Trinity University campus in Horsforth, Leeds. Through our agile working framework, there will also be the option to spend some time working remotely, which will be discussed further with candidates at interview.

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.

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.

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