Careers Consultant (King's College London) London, England
Job description
Job reference: 002300
Salary: Starting salary £39,109, with a maximum of up to £46,953 (dependent on experience)
Closing date: 30/04/2023
Department: The Careers Group
Location: King's College London
Employment type: Open ended
Sub-Department: King's College London
Hours Per Week: 35 hours
We are currently recruiting for a permanent full time Careers Consultant to join the central team at King’s Careers and Employability. We are looking for someone with a commitment and interest in social justice and social mobility as the main part of the role will involve supporting students from under-represented groups within Higher Education to achieve their future goals.
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 groupwork delivery inside and outside of the curriculum, one-to-one guidance and the development of e-learning and other resources.
A key part of this role will be for you to build strong relationships with academic staff, employers, alumni and other professionals in and beyond the university careers team in order to design and deliver the best possible employability support.
The Careers Education Team is made up of 13 Consultants, as well as specialist teams for Law and 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 (see Job Pack for more details).
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 the University’s 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 an informal conversation about the role please contact Vanessa Freeman, Associate Director, Careers Education. [email protected]
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 30 April 2023.
Interviews will take place in person on Thursday 18 May 2023 - successful candidates from the first interview will be invited to a second selection exercise and interview online on Friday 19 May 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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