Careers Coach (111807-0626)

Location: University of Warwick Campus, Coventry

Duration: Fixed term contract until 28th June 2027

About the Role  

Informal Queries

• For informal queries, please contact Hilary Riseley (Careers Manager) at hilary.riseley@wbs.ac.uk

This role will support the career development of WBS students, delivering careers provision in a variety of formats including 1:1 guidance and coaching, group activities and e-learning as appropriate. It will provide, alongside the Careers Managers, careers and professional development support at every stage from pre-arrival to WBS through to course completion, helping students to achieve their career goals and to maximise employability outcomes.

Typical inputs will include:

• Careers guidance appointments and focused applications support
• Assisting WBS students to identify career goals, draw up individual action plans and identify appropriate online resources to assist in the achievement of these
• Act as first point of contact for student queries and provide e-guidance as appropriate
• Undertaking mock interviews
• Facilitating mock assessment centre type activities
• Delivery of skill development and career management workshops

This will include working with the Careers Managers and faculty/administrative colleagues to implement careers education/professional skill development inputs mapped against academic programmes and identifying opportunities for students to underpin their professional skill development with practical application and experiential learning.

• Record all careers and professional development interventions for students on the university careers portal and apply appropriate processes to monitor feedback from service users, collating appropriate careers metrics data as required.
• Maintain and develop expertise and specialist knowledge of graduate career paths and global employability trends in order to enable students to make effective transitions into their chosen careers, based on an accurate understanding of the global labour market and available opportunities.
• To support the Careers Managers by working alongside the Employer Relations team to ensure a collaborative approach to the development of successful long-term relationships with global, national and regional organisations for the generation of career opportunities for WBS students and alumni and the provision of appropriate tailored support for students in terms of CVs, application and interview preparation.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with course programme teams and student representatives, attending student-staff committee meetings and working closely with student Careers Representatives.
• Other comparable duties and projects as defined by the WBS CareersPlus Director and relevant Careers Manager

For details on the experience and skills required, please refer to the job description as a PDF below.

JD - Careers Coach (111807).pdf – 80KB

Closing Deadline: Monday 27 July 2026 at 11:55pm (UK Time)*

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the 'Apply' button.

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