Head of Postgraduate Careers

About the role:

We’re excited to be recruiting a motivated Head of Postgraduate Careers to join our team at The University of Manchester. This is an excellent opportunity to make a real impact in a world-leading institution known for its collaborative, forward-thinking culture.

The Postgraduate Careers Service is a specialist, dedicated careers service providing high quality careers guidance and market engagement for our postgraduate students within a top 50 globally ranked Business School.

Reporting to the Partnerships Director, the Head of Postgraduate Careers is a senior, highly visible professional services leadership role within the school. You will lead a world class careers operation supporting a diverse group of professionals from across the world as they seek to develop their careers and achieve their goals. This includes students on our full time MBA programme which is consistently ranked in the top 50 in the world, along with our range of MSc programmes and our part time (global) MBAs based across our international centres.

In addition, you will lead on strategic engagement with a wide range of external organisations, developing long term relationships that open up opportunities for projects, internships and full time hiring. As well as core careers offering, the department is responsible for the delivery of a suite of live, client facing projects on the full time MBA programme which sit at the very heart of their student experience as well as their academic and professional development. You will also represent the service at senior levels within the School and wider institution developing relationships with academic and professional services (PS) colleagues and making a contribution to the School’s wider development and strategic goals.

Why work with us?

As one of the UK’s leading universities and a member of the prestigious Russell Group, The University of Manchester is recognised globally for excellence in teaching, research, and social responsibility. With 25 Nobel Prize winners among our current and former staff and students, we have a proud history of world-first discoveries – from splitting the atom to giving the world graphene. Our commitment to research, teaching, and social responsibility shapes everything we do.

Our benefits include:

• Generous annual leave, including Christmas/New Year closure
• Membership of a competitive pension scheme
• Comprehensive wellbeing programme, including counselling, fitness, and leading sports facilities
• Learning and development opportunities to support your career growtH
• Season ticket loans and Cycle to Work scheme
• Workplace nursery scheme and family-friendly policies
• Staff discounts on travel, retail and services
• Staff recognition schemes celebrating outstanding contributions

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

For informal enquiries, please contact:

Name: Sunit Patel, Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Email: sunit.patel@manchester.ac.uk

For general enquiries:

Email: recruitmentservices.people@manchester.ac.uk

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- Please quote reference HUM-030787

Please note that any CVs submitted by recruitment agencies will be treated as a gift.

This vacancy will close at midnight on the closing date. We reserve the right to close the advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

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