Careers Consultant - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

About us

UCL Careers provides careers education to current students, graduates and research staff of UCL, as well as recruitment solutions for employers. Most careers support for undergraduate and taught postgraduate students delivered within faculties and departments is managed by three careers teams that work with faculty groupings:

• SLMS “The Faculties of Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, Population Health Sciences and Brain Sciences”,
• BEAMS “The Faculties of The Built Environment, Engineering and Maths and Physical Sciences”
• SLASH & IOE “The Faculties of Arts and Humanities and Social and Historical Sciences and The UCL Institute of Education”.

About the role

Each Careers Consultant will work within one of the three Careers teams. A separate Job Description is provided for each of these team-specific roles. You will join an existing team developing and delivering careers education programmes to the students. In addition, the you'll conduct 1:1 careers guidance appointments and work collaboratively on a range of projects.

You'll need a passion for mentoring / coaching others, and for supporting personal development. There will be lots of work with internal and external colleagues and stakeholders, so confidence in, and the enjoyment of, developing relationships and partnership working is important, as well as the ability to plan, lead on and manage areas of work to a high standard and agreed objectives / outcomes.

About you

You should be a confident presenter and facilitator and enjoy running group sessions as well as working with students 1:1. You should enjoy, and have experience of, work with a range of stakeholders so that you are well equipped to work closely with students, academic staff, support staff and employers.

Previous work experience within higher education would be advantageous.

Please apply with a copy of your CV and as part of the application fully complete the "Application Questionnaire" (this is essential). We ask that you indicate within the Application Questionnaire whether you would be happy to work in any of the three teams, or whether you would prefer only one of the Careers Teams. Please provide an explanation for your choice.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.