Employer Engagement and Internships Coordinator - School of Business and Management (Mat Cover)

About the role

In this role, you will provide a dedicated service for students and graduates from the School of Business and Management (SBM). You will be based in the Careers and Enterprise department to exploit existing employer relationships, but will spend time within the School to ensure integration with the academic department. You will also work closely with other Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Internships Coordinators, to maximise productivity and efficiency of placing HSS students into opportunities.

About the department

Careers and Enterprise is committed to developing the employability of Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) students and graduates by helping them to acquire the skills and experience necessary to progress successfully to graduate-level employment, enterprise and/or further study. We work to improve Graduate Outcomes and fulfil QMUL’s strategic ambitions and employability targets. We are a team of around 60 FTE, working across all academic departments and providing services to undergraduates, postgraduates and graduates for up to three years post-graduation. Within our service, our teams work collaboratively as School Partnership Teams. The key teams are Careers Education, Advice, and Guidance; Employer Engagement and Internships; Enterprise; Employability and Student Development Programmes, and Information and Operations

This post will be based in the Employer Engagement Team and will work closely with colleagues supporting extra-curricular internships activity across the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty.

About you

In this role, you will provide a dedicated service for students and graduates from the School of Business and Management (SBM). You will be required to initiate and build relationships with a range of employers and alumni for sourcing internship opportunities for SBM students (both undergraduate and postgraduate). You will proactively negotiate opportunities for internships, market these to students, place students into internship roles and liaise with employers and students to ensure the smooth running of internships and to gather feedback. You will also deliver on school specific internship and work experience programmes.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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