Year Placement Officer

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.

Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.

The Year Placements Officer will join the Careers and Employability Directorate at City St George’s, University of London, supporting undergraduate students to secure and thrive upon year placements. Working within the newly established Year Placements team, you will help deliver a consistently high-quality service to eligible students across the University, enabling them to understand the opportunity of doing a year placement, produce excellent applications to secure placements and maximise their experience on placement.

You will provide advice, guidance and administrative support throughout the year placement lifecycle. This includes promoting placement opportunities, delivering workshops and events, supporting students with applications and compliance processes, maintaining placement records, engaging with employers and monitoring student progress on placement. You will work collaboratively with academic and professional services colleagues to ensure an excellent student experience.

You will have experience delivering advice and guidance to diverse stakeholders, together with strong communication, organisation and relationship-building skills. Knowledge of the UK student and graduate labour market is essential. You will be confident managing competing priorities, using data to inform service improvements, and working collaboratively to support student success. A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion is essential.

Additional Information

Closing date for applications: 15th November 2026 at 11:59pm

Interviews are scheduled to take place from 7th December 2026

The selection process will involve an interview. Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage.

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole co mmunity, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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