Business Engagement & Experiential Learning Manager

About the Role
The Business Engagement & Experiential Learning Manager plays a central role in connecting students with external partners to deliver high-quality, curriculum-embedded experiential learning opportunities. The post holder will develop and sustain strategic partnerships with employers, industry, and international organisations, ensuring these relationships translate into meaningful student experiences that enhance employability, global awareness, and academic outcomes.

The role sits at the intersection of partnership development, curriculum innovation, and student outcomes, contributing to institutional priorities around employability, co-created curriculum, and global engagement.

About You
You will be an experienced and proactive professional with a strong track record of developing partnerships, building stakeholder relationships and delivering initiatives that create positive outcomes for students and organisations. You will possess excellent communication, influencing and relationship management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with employers, academics, alumni and external partners. Experience of employer engagement, experiential learning, employability or partnership development is essential, alongside the ability to manage projects, analyse information and deliver results in a complex environment. A strong understanding of the higher education sector, student employability and curriculum innovation would be advantageous. You will also have experience of leading teams or initiatives and be committed to delivering an outstanding experience for students and external partners.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project
The School of Business and Management (SBM) is made up of 5 departments, covering Accounting & Financial Management, Business & Society, Marketing, People & Organisations, and Business Analytics & Applied Economics. The School has approximately 3000 undergraduate students, 800 postgraduate taught students and 100 PhD students. The School is located within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, which is comprised of five Schools that deliver the research and education activity of the Faculty.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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