Careers Consultants - London, United Kingdom - University of London

University of London

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3 weeks ago

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Description

Job reference: 002320

Salary:
Starting salary £39,109 per annum for full time role, or pro rata if part time (depending on experience)

Closing date: 07/05/2023

Department:
The Careers Group

Location:
City University London

Employment type:
Open ended

Sub-Department:
City University London

Hours Per Week: 35 hours per week

City University of London is looking to recruit 2.8 generalist Careers Consultants which means you will be working on central activities such as one to one guidance and group delivery to students from all disciplines, at all levels.

The roles are offered on a full or part-time, permanent basis.

An overview of City Careers and Employability

Founded in 1894, City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location.

City attracts around 20,000 students (over 40% postgraduate level) from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

City Careers and Employability provides employability learning and careers information, advice and guidance to students and graduates of City, University of London.

Our mission is to support all City students to develop their employability.

There are currently over 30 staff members split into the following teams:
Careers Consultants, Employer Engagement, Information and Data, Student Development and Unitemps.

City is entering and exciting period of growth for employability learning, having agreed significant investment in an Institution-wide Career Activation Programme.

The vision of the plan is to embed career focus learning and professional level experience across the undergraduate curriculum so that every undergraduate has access to employability support.

The investment covers staff within the service and academic schools to deliver on a number of innovative approaches to provide professional level experience plus additional Careers Consultants to design and deliver career focus learning in existing academic modules.

Careers Consultants at City work closely with Module Leads to ensure effective embedding.

An overview of The Careers Group

The Careers Group of the University of London is an expertise-led, collaborative membership organisation, set up to serve predominantly, but not exclusively, the member institutions of the University of London.

The Group comprises the careers services of:

City, University London
Goldsmiths, University of London
King's College London
St Mary's University
SOAS
University College London
The University of London Careers Service

The University of London Careers Service supports both distance and flexible learning students, and those at small specialist colleges in the University's federation including the Courtauld, Royal Veterinary College, St George's Medical School, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the School of Advanced Study.

It also provides careers provision to the Institute of Cancer Research, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and the London Arts & Humanities Partnership.

All The Careers Group institutional services are closely aligned to the strategies for education, employability, enterprise and student experience of the institutions that they serve.

This means that staff will partner with academics, professional services colleagues and students on creation and delivery of key initiatives that support the future outcomes of students.

The group has over 250 staff and serves a population well in excess of 150,000 students, researchers and graduates.

The Group HQ is at Stewart House and contains the Director's office and a small central team, which supports the institutional services by coordinating recruitment and resourcing, providing professional development, supporting research and evidence-based practice, overseeing the creation and curation of shared resources, and undertaking special projects on behalf of member services and the Group as a whole.

Stewart House is also the base for the University of London Careers Service.

In October 2020, The Careers Group began implementation of a new action plan for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, shaped by external expertise in inclusion, social justice and anti-racism, and led by the Director of The Careers Group, Dr Kate Daubney.

This plan takes both a collective and individual approach to reviewing learning and practice in equality and diversity, striving to improve our understanding of the differences in and the impacts of lived experience both across our staff community and among our students and other partners.

We are seeking to address structural inequality and obstacles to progression in our organisation through a range of actions including:
establishing an internal Advisory Panel of colleagues of diverse heritage to inform the Group's strategic priorities; reviewing our manager progression processes, experiences and data; and embedding ap