Placement Manager

About the role

The Faculty of Engineering and Design are recruiting a Placement Manager to provide operational line-management and support to a motivated team of five Placement Officers and one Placements Administrator. The Placement team support undergraduate engineering and architecture students to secure twelve or six month placements as part of their degree course. The team engages with students to support them both securing and on placement and liaise with industry to develop and maintain placement opportunities. 

You will be providing day to day supervision of the Placement team, developing content for student employability sessions, structuring administrative processes and leading on the engagement of industry partners for placement opportunities. You will be a student facing member of staff and focus on students who may have more complex needs. You will work with the Head of Placements and Partnerships to recruit, train and develop the team and be involved in process improvement projects.

You will be working in our Faculty Placements and PGT Employability Hub which comprises our Undergraduate Placement team and Postgraduate Employability team and you'll be supported by the Head of Placements and Partnerships. You will also collaborate with central Careers and other Faculty based placement teams and be regularly communicating with academic colleagues in the Faculty. 

About you

You will have the skills and motivation to provide supportive and structured operational line-management to the team and be able to motivate, train and delegate. You will enjoy working with students and have experience in training, teaching or presenting. You will have excellent partnership skills and be able to liaise professionally with industry. You will be a strong communicator able to engage and work with academic and professional services colleagues across the University. 

Further information

This is a full-time (36.5 hours), open ended position. The team follow a hybrid working pattern with 60% of their time on campus. 

Further details on our team can be found here: 

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

Recruit engineering students for professional placements (bath.ac.uk)

Employ our architecture students for a professional placement (bath.ac.uk)

What we can offer you

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

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