Senior Employer Relations Manager

Location: South Kensington

Job Summary:

Drive exciting change and innovation at a top UK business school as you take our existing employer engagement success into growing markets. Join our team and play a vital role in enhancing our students' career growth and achievements.

You will join a world-class team delivering meaningful and innovative employer engagement activities for Imperial College Business School students and employers across a range of industries, sectors, and regions. The team delivers events connecting students with industry, from Careers Fairs to 1:1 coffee chats and acts as a bridge between our talent and their next role through job, internship, and project brokerage.

This role will be responsible for increasing the number of impactful recruitment and employability opportunities for our students and will be excited to manage projects and shared ways of working to achieve that goal.

This role is ideal for someone with a passion for trying new ideas, brokering partnerships and deep relationships and with experience in creating and delivering new opportunities. The role will take the spotlight for the team in key growth areas, at the core of the Careers & Student Life and upcoming Business School strategies.

Duties and responsibilities

• Leading projects autonomously that drive an increase in market presence, or improve brand and perceptions.
• Set the right processes for your workstreams, inspiring and recognising best practice in colleagues.
• Be accountable for the success of your projects and be a visible point of contact for students, colleagues, and employers.
• Ensure that our existing quality delivery meets the needs of our students.
• Continually expand the opportunities available through business development and project creation.
• Spot opportunity, lead additional projects and adapt ways of working to respond to new growth markets. You will bring expertise and creativity to break new ground and create opportunity.
• Oversee budgets and workstreams.
• Market research and sharing insights.
• Creating and communicating opportunity
• Business development and marketing and communications
• Event management, connecting our students with industry professionals and alumni.

Essential requirements

• Experience leading ongoing workstreams and transformation projects independently.
• Experience influencing at senior levels within industry.
• Experience of business development and brokering new relationships and projects
• Significant evidence of professional experience in a similar role
• Creative, with a proven ability to identify, and implement improvements to services.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and influencing skills with colleagues.
• Growth mindset and an ability to lead and inspire through change.

Further Information

This is a permanent, full-time placement and the candidate is expected to work flexibly on site at least 3 days a week at our South Kensington campus.

The role includes some international travel, and some evening events.

We expect to offer first round interviews on 12^th and 14^th June, and second round interviews will be face-to-face on our South Kensington campus in the week of 24^th June (likely Tuesday 25^th and Thursday 27^th).

Should you require any further details about the role, please contact Sarah Cook, sarah.cook1@imperial.ac.uk

Hybrid working may be considered for this role.  Staff working in roles that are suitable for hybrid working will normally be expected to work 60% of their time onsite. The opportunity for hybrid working will be discussed at interview.

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