Placement Officer

About the role

We are looking for a motivated individual to join our lively Placement and PGT Employability team. 

Undergraduate and postgraduate taught students have the option of taking a one-year work placement in industry as part of their degree. The focus of this role will be on supporting our PGT students who are a mostly international cohort. We are also looking to support students to undertake short micro-internships of a day to one week.

You will play a vital role in maintaining strong professional relationships with current placement providers in an industry facing role whilst also proactively sourcing and developing opportunities to generate new placements. You will act as a point of contact for students, academic staff and employers, dealing with enquiries and providing guidance. 

This position is offered on a part time (21.9 hours) basis, fixed term until 10th March 2025 or the early return of the postholder.

About you

A major part of the role is to provide employability support to students on a one-to-one basis and good written English skills are crucial. In addition, you will be required to deliver skills workshops and talks and must be a confident, lively presenter to communicate to the student audience.

With excellent organisational skills, you will demonstrate a good use of initiative and be able to multi-task and prioritise a high workload. Attention to detail and good administrative record keeping are crucial. We work together as a team to achieve overall results and you will need to be a good team player. An interest in learning about and working with engineering and design subject areas and industries would be beneficial. 

Further information

Placement Officers host companies on campus as well as visit them on site to promote the placement scheme. This is an exciting role supporting hard-working students at the start of their engineering and design careers. Learn more about our Faculty and its programmes here. 

We are an encouraging team of Placement Officers, Postgraduate Employability Officer, Postgraduate Employability Coordinator and Placements Administrator with the team a mixture of part-time and full-time staff. We benefit from being embedded in the Faculty but also maintaining strong links with the central careers service and other Faculty placement and employability teams. We are a student and industry facing team who enjoy supporting students to secure and start their first professional role in industry. 

The team currently work on a hybrid pattern with 60% or more of their time on campus. 

For an informal conversation about the role please contact: 

• Postgraduate Partnerships Manager, Rose Leek at rl2098@bath.ac.uk or 01225 387512
• Head of Placements and Partnerships, Vicky Hill, at vlh26@bath.ac.uk 

Please ensure you submit your application through our website.

Further details on our team can be found here:

Improve your employability with an engineering placement year (bath.ac.uk)

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Improve your employability with one of our Engineering masters degrees

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