Careers Consultant - Dickson Poon School of Law, King s College London London
Job description
Available Job Today King’s College London are recruiting for a permanent full time Careers Consultant for the Dickson Poon School of Law. In this position, the successful candidate will be working with the faculty to deliver high quality careers education, labour market intelligence, and guidance to students in the Faculty.
You will join the highly regarded Careers and Employability service at King’s as part of their Careers Education Team which is made up of 13 Careers Consultants, including a specialist team for Researchers. In applying for this role, you will be applying to become a Careers Consultant in The Careers Group, and to be allocated through The Careers Group to perform that role at King's College London’s Dickson Poon School of Law (see Job Pack for more details).
As a King's Careers Consultant, you will help students and graduates to acquire the skills necessary to choose their future path, find employment and to manage their career successfully. You will achieve this through a combination of teaching inside and outside of the curriculum, one-to-one guidance and the development of e-learning and other resources. You will use your previous work experience plus skills such as creating clear goals and empathy combined with training in guidance skills from The Careers Group.
A key part of this role will be for you to build strategic relationships with academic colleagues, employers, alumni and other professionals inside and outside of the university careers team in order to design and deliver the best possible employability support.
We have a new strategy with a focus on building greater faculty partnerships and underpinning our work with data. We continue to develop our digital provision alongside face-to-face support and making this a seamless experience for students is a key focus for the coming year.
The Careers & Employability team is here to support all students 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.
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 approaches to building and maintaining safe spaces for all.
From October 2022, The Careers Group will offer a unique new postgraduate online learning module: Strategic Approaches to Careers and Employability in Higher Education. This module will be offered as part of The University of London’s Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. The module has been designed for global higher education colleagues with responsibility for or an interest in careers and employability strategy.
Further Information
For more information on the role, please read the Job Description and Job Pack attached.
For a chat about the role please contact either Jai Shah, Team Leader, Careers Education ([email protected]) or Vanessa Freeman, Associate Director, Careers Education ([email protected]) before April 5th 2023.
To be considered for this opportunity, please submit your application by clicking ‘Apply for job’ at the bottom of this page before the closing date at midnight on Sunday 16th April 2023.
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 25th April 2023.
We look forward to receiving your application.
The University of London is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive working environment where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We particularly encourage applications from members of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic communities as this group is currently under-represented in senior levels within the University. All appointments will be made on merit, based on the criteria identified in the job description.
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