Careers Consultant - London, United Kingdom - University of London

University of London

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2 weeks ago

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Description

Job reference: 002339

Salary:
Starting salary £39,109 per annum, with a maximum of up to £45,953 per annum pro rata inclusive of London Weighting (dependent on experience)

Closing date: 04/06/2023

Department:
The Careers Group

Location:
King's College London

Employment type:
Open ended

Sub-Department:
King's College London

Hours Per Week: 31.5 hours per week

We are currently recruiting for a permanent 0.9 FTE (31.5 hours a week) Careers Consultant to join our small, friendly and supportive team of Careers Consultants for Researchers - a part of the central team at King's Careers and Employability.

We are looking for someone with a commitment to, and an interest in, supporting PhD students and research staff with their career management and progression.

As a King's Careers Consultant for Researchers you will provide careers guidance, activities and resources that support the career management and progression of King's PhD students and research staff, both within and beyond academia.

This will be through a combination of webinars, workshops, one-to-one guidance and the development of e-learning and other resources.

You will also contribute to the work of the wider careers team that work with undergraduate and post graduate students.

Supporting researchers is a fascinating environment within which to work and one that is currently undergoing many changes - from taking action to improve diversity and inclusion in academia, to conversations about research culture, career precarity, working outside academia and many more.

We also learn from a multitude of perspectives from PhD students to experienced academics and professional staff.

A key part of this role will be for you to build strong relationships and communicate effectively with the academic staff, academic teams, employers, alumni and other professionals in and beyond the university careers and researcher support teams in order to design and deliver the best possible career support.

The Careers & Employability team is here to support all students and researchers and we achieve that by valuing diversity and being inclusive in what we do - and we're actively learning ways to do it better.

We'd like you to be part of that and bring your own lived experience to working with us as a Careers Consultant.

Note_: Research staff at King's are postdoctoral staff, research assistants, technicians and teaching fellows, in fact all those other than PhD students who are engaged in research and who do not yet have an independent, permanent academic or managerial position.

An Overview of Careers Consultants for Researchers Team

We work closely with both the Centre for Research Staff Development and the Centre for Doctoral Studies and collaborate and liaise with other research-focused groups across the institution and within the research environment.

We proactively engage with with the wider research culture agenda at King's to positively contribute to all researchers' career management and progression across the institution using the team's researcher careers expertise.

Main activities for the role

One to one in depth careers consultancy, guidance and interview coaching appointments lasting 30 minutes or 1 hour
Creation and delivery of online webinars and in person workshops relevant to the interests and needs of researchers
Creating bespoke online resources that enable researchers to manage their careers both within and beyond academia
Creating bespoke marketing materials including newsletters to engage and inform researchers with our careers services.
Creating and delivering webinars and online employer panels tailored to the career interests of researchers
Building and maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders including the relevant researcher support teams, academics within faculties and researcherled groups
Gaining and sharing a good understanding of the labour market for researchers and using this evidence to inform activities
Reviewing and reporting on activities to inform development using robust evidence
Maintaining awareness of developments in researcher education and training and Higher Education in the UK and worldwide
Acting as expert consultant and trainer to other careers professionals, academic colleagues and professional services colleagues

We are able to consider part-time and/or job share options.

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: