Director of Business and Employer Engagement

University College Brimingham is seeking an exceptional and strategic leader to join our senior team as Director of Business and Employer Engagement. This is a transformative role, central to delivering our institutional ambitions around employability, commercial training, and impactful industry collaboration. You will shape and lead a university-wide strategy that strengthens our partnerships with employers, enhances student outcomes, and drives innovation in business engagement.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and implement a comprehensive employer engagement strategy aligned with University goals.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with employers, industry bodies, and regional economic partners.
• Identify and pursue opportunities for collaboration, funding, and workforce development initiatives.
• Lead a high-performing team to deliver impactful employer engagement activities and services.
• Represent the University at key events, forums, and stakeholder meetings.

You will have proven experience in developing and managing high-value strategic partnerships with employers from a range of sectors, that deliver commercial outcomes, within a Higher Education setting and leading teams through to success 

Benefits:

• Generous allocation of annual leave
  • 29 days’ paid leave per year
  • 12 Bank Holidays & Concessionary Days
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme
  • Employer Contributions – 20.9%
• Subsidised private healthcare provided by Aviva including a Digital GP Service.
• Employee Assistance Programme inclusive of counselling services, financial wellbeing support and bereavement support
• Annual health MOTs with our Registered Nurse
• Excellent staff development opportunities including professional qualification sponsorship
• A variety of salary sacrifice schemes including technology and cycle.
• Heavily-subsidised on-site car parking in central Birmingham
• Free on-site gym membership

How to apply: Please click 'Apply’ to be redirected to our website, where you can download an application pack.

Standard Information: UCB is an equal opportunities employer.

We are TEF rated Silver, with a Good Ofsted rating.  

You may need to obtain permission to work in the UK if you don’t already have the unrestricted right to work in any role. There are various types of visa which include the right to work. You can check if you need a UK visa using the Government’s online tool and find information about UK visa routes and the eligibility criteria that must be met for each route Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). All staff are required to prove their right to work in the UK before they start work.

All applicants for employment at the University will be expected to undertake an Enhanced Check with the Disclosure and Barring Service prior to commencement. 

All applicants for employment at the University will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the principles of Safeguarding and the PREVENT agenda in the context of further and higher education.  

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