Business Engagement Officer

About the Role

The Business Engagement Officer will support the development and management of relationships with employers, industry partners, professional bodies and external organisations. Working within the Strategic Development Team, the role will help create opportunities that strengthen employer engagement, enhance student employability and support the School's strategic objectives.

The postholder will coordinate employer engagement activities, support networking and partnership opportunities, facilitate employer participation in academic and co-curricular initiatives and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders. Working closely with the Business Engagement and Experiential Learning Manager and Experiential Learning Officer, the role will help ensure employer partnerships are translated into meaningful opportunities for students and staff.

About You

You will be educated to degree level or possess equivalent professional experience and have experience of stakeholder engagement, relationship management, partnership development or business-facing activity. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to develop productive relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Experience of employer engagement, business development, partnerships or higher education would be advantageous. You will be organised, proactive and capable of managing multiple priorities while delivering a high standard of service and engagement.

About the School

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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