Work Related Learning Officer - BEAMS

UCL Careers provides careers education to current students, graduates and staff of UCL, as well as recruitment solutions for employers.

About the role

The role holder will work directly with the Work Related Learning Manager for the BEAMS faculty cluster (Built Environment, Engineering, Maths & Physical Sciences) to provide practical activities for the students to enhance their careers education and prepare them for the world of work.

The role holder will engage with relevant academic staff, recruiters, alumni and other professional bodies, to run activities for undergraduate and postgraduate taught students across the faculties. Such activities could include industry forums, career taster or skills workshops, hackathons, challenges, work-shadowing opportunities and collaborative projects with other UCL departments.

Such engagement will involve developing relationships with existing employer and alumni contacts but will also involve proactively researching the market and establishing new industry connections.

We intend to interview on Tuesday 25^th August, in-person at our Careers offices in Bloomsbury.

About you

To do this job you'll need to have:

• Experience of project management and delivering against ambitious/demanding targets
• Experience of setting up work-related learning programmes or activities, or managing a programme of events or training activities
• Ability to build strong relationships both proactively and reactively with a range of different stakeholders, including external partners
• Excellent communication skills with experience of communicating with a range of audiences in person and online
• Ability to persuade and influence relevant stakeholders
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to multi-task, prioritise own workload, work to deadlines, and remain calm under pressure
• Highly motivated with a resilient and inclusive, solutions focused attitude
• Ability to carry out qualitative and quantitative research to evaluate own programme and benchmark across the HE sector
• Good knowledge of IT (including Microsoft Office) and of event / database management software

Please review the job description carefully, paying particular attention to the Essential and Desirable criteria, and ensure these 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.

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