Careers Consultant (LMS)

About us

UCL’s Life and Medical Sciences faculties constitute one of the largest and most prestigious groupings of academics in biomedical, life and population health sciences in the UK. As of 2025 these faculties had a combined total of over 5,000 undergraduate students and over 6,000 taught post-graduate students. Subjects range from undergraduate degrees in psychology, pharmacy and biochemistry to a highly diverse range of specialist postgraduate degrees in areas such as human genetics, drug development, public health nutrition, global health and cognitive neuroscience.

About the role

The Careers Consultant will be one of a team of four Careers Consultants developing and delivering careers education programmes to the students across the four Life and Medical Sciences faculties.

Careers consultant–led educational activities include delivering small- and large‑group teaching (online and in person) to develop careers related knowledge and employability skills, faculty specific careers appointments and some departmental / faculty level events provision. Strategic and administrative duties include planning an annual programme with academic and support staff, contributing to educational meetings, marketing careers provision, and managing an online platform (Moodle).

In addition, the Careers Consultant will deliver on some of our central service provision, including 1:1 careers guidance appointments open to all UCL students, and recent alumni, and work collaboratively on a range of central projects.

A full job description is attached to this advert.

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.

To meet our current stakeholder needs we require someone with relevant experience so you will need a professional qualification in careers and employability and previous work experience within higher education. Experience working in, or knowledge of, career areas of interest to life and medical sciences students would be beneficial, such as academic research, life science industry and healthcare.

Please read our job description carefully, paying particular attention to the essential and desirable criteria, and ensure these criteria are covered in your application.

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.

Customer advert reference: B06-00192

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