Part-time Careers Adviser – AD2734ML

The Careers Centre is seeking a careers adviser to work 2 x days per week in our creative and proactive team. We educate, inspire, and empower our students and graduates to equip them with the lifelong career management and enterprise skills they need to create meaningful and fulfilling careers, whatever their ambitions.

Our careers advisers offer education, training, advice, and guidance to help our students and graduates explore what makes them curious, focus their plans and interests, and feel empowered to realise their career ambitions.  Partnership working with our local and global stakeholders is at the heart of what we do. We work closely with a range of partners including academic schools, professional service units, alumni, employers, and student societies.

You will be educated to degree level and have, or be working towards, a professional qualification in career guidance. You will have experience of working in career guidance or a related setting, and/or experience of working in a university or graduate recruitment, as well as excellent interpersonal skills, a commitment to evidence-informed practice and a passion for high-quality service delivery.

Employees of the University have access to a wide range of staff benefits including:

• Annual leave of 34 days, plus 5 public holidays
• Membership of the USS Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions
•  A hybrid working environment, including partial homeworking where appropriate and a range of family friendly policies
• Staff discount scheme for local and national goods and services
• Free staff parking, employee Carshare and Cycle to Work Schemes and subsidised local bus travel
• Subsidised sports membership, reduced tuition fees on degree programmes for staff, access to training and development opportunities including LinkedIn Learning, access to library facilities, salary sacrifice scheme
• A range of wellbeing initiatives including membership of Peppy, a health application that connects staff to expert practitioners and personalized support on health matters

This post will involve working in our two locations – at the Careers Centre in St Andrews, and at the Eden Campus at Guardbridge, a state-of-the-art working environment for professional services units. 

Further information and informal enquiries may be directed to Jim Campbell, Assistant Director of Careers, via careers@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Applications are particularly welcome from women, people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented in professional posts at the University.

Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of the St Andrews experience.  We strive to create a fair and inclusive culture demonstrated through our commitment to diversity awards (Athena Swan, Carer Positive, LGBT Charter, Race Charters and Stonewall). We celebrate diversity by promoting profiles of BAME, LGBTIQ+ staff and supporting networks including the Staff BAME Network; Staff with Disabilities Network; Staff LGBTIQ+ Network; and the Staff Parents & Carers Network.  Full details available online: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/.

Interviews will be held on 6 September 2024
Closing Date: 23 August 2024
Start: As soon as possible 
Hours of work: 14.5 per week, semester time only
Fixed Term: until 30 May 2026
Please quote ref: AD2734ML 
Further Particulars: AD2734ML FPs.doc

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