Careers Consultant

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution.

The combined university is one of the largest suppliers of the health workforce in the capital, as well as one of the largest higher education destinations for London students.

Combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, law, creativity, communications, science and technology, we are creating a ‘health powerhouse’ for students, researchers, the NHS and partners in uniting a world-leading specialist health university. We are now one of the UK’s largest health educators, where staff and students have access to an expanded team of brilliant academic and professional services colleagues, combined resources and facilities and more interdisciplinary opportunities.

The merger creates opportunities to generate significant change in the world of healthcare including changes to treatment, population health monitoring, workforce development and leadership, policy, and advocacy.

Background

The Careers & Employability Directorate is pivotal in supporting City St George’s to deliver a student experience that combines academic excellence with a focus on employability. This role sits within the Careers Consultants team and City St George’s is in an exciting period of growth for employability learning and is embedding career focus learning and professional experience across the curriculum so that every undergraduate is career ready.

Responsibilities

This is a 1 year fixed term contract (maternity cover) for a generalist Careers Consultant which means you will work on central activities such as one to one guidance and group delivery to students from all disciplines, at all levels.

This Careers Consultant post will have a crucial role in designing and delivering career focus learning in existing academic modules and engaging with academic stakeholders. You will enjoy implementing a pedagogical approach to employability, often delivering lectures to large numbers of students and applying learning design principles to your delivery.

Person Specification

We welcome applications from candidates experienced in careers advisory roles or career changers who can demonstrate the relevant skills outlined in the job description. You will possess a degree and ideally a postgraduate qualification in careers guidance or a related discipline. You will have a good understanding of the UK graduate labour market and have substantive work experience relevant to our students’ interests.

Additional Information

Closing date for applications: 3rd September 2024 at 11:59pm.

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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