Mba Careers Consultant - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Grade UE07:
£35,333 - £42,155 per annum, pro rata

CAHSS / Business School

Part-time: 0.6 FTE /21 hours per week/

Open-ended

The University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS) MBA Team seeks to appoint to the newly created role of MBA Careers Consultant.

This critical role will contribute directly to the UEBS MBA employability strategy by delivering professional, impartial careers management support to MBA students (i.e. Full-time MBAs, Executive MBAs and Online MBAs) enabling them to make a successful transition to their chosen career path.

The Opportunity:

In this role, you will provide one-to-one careers advice, information and guidance to MBA students and alumni drawing on your experience of working with senior industry professionals and relevant career development tools and models.

Your advice will help our students to focus their career plans and evaluate their skills and strengths in relation to the job market.

You will leverage your previous experience directly to help inform the design and delivery of a programme of employability-focused activities and projects aimed at enabling our MBA students to develop the skills required to secure high quality, MBA level employment following graduation.

Critical to the success of this role, will be your ability to develop strong relationships and work collaboratively with key stakeholders within the Business School.

To succeed in the post, you will currently be operating within a dynamic organisational environment (such as executive recruitment, consultancy, and career planning or organisational development) and be able to demonstrate proven skills in advising senior industry professionals.

Experience of providing careers guidance gained within the Higher Education professional development environment will be highly beneficial.

Your skills and attributes for success:

Excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills.
Strong customer focus and a commitment to the delivery of a high quality service.
Proven relationship management skills with experience of engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders.
Strong networking capability with the credibility and gravitas to advise senior industry professionals.
Highly developed analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to respond creatively to opportunities.
Excellent project management and organisational skills to ensure activities/projects for a range of stakeholders are delivered to a high standard and to meet deadlines.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits
pension scheme ,
staff discounts, family friendly initiatives
, flexible working and much more.

Access our staff benefits page
for further information and use our reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interview dates TBC.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our
right to work webpages.

The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.