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St Marys University Employability Service is now recruiting for 2 full time Careers Consultants.

One is a permanent position and the other is a 1 year fixed term Careers Consultant role, with a particular focus on improving our online learning and resources.

If you enjoy building relationships, helping others learn more about themselves and their potential, and teaching and facilitating workshops creatively, why not join our team of Careers Consultants? Your working life in the role would be varied and include a range of activities such as delivering one to one careers guidance, designing and facilitating workshops and events, creating engaging and relevant online resources, working with academic departments and getting involved in a whole range of collaborative project work. You can make a real impact and difference to people’s lives.

We are a welcoming and inclusive workplace. Equality and diversity is at the core of our service. We welcome applications from all qualified applicants and will accept equivalent experience and/or qualifications. We observe inclusive recruitment practices including blind shortlisting. We welcome applicants who would be looking for part time or job share options.

Please mention in your application if you would be willing to be considered for both roles.

St Mary’s has a strong reputation for teaching excellence and a student-centered approach. As a public University with a faith identity, St Mary’s welcomes students and staff of all faiths and none, comprising a diverse population of almost 6,000 students. The powerful sense of community that characterises St Mary's is a product of our ethos and the core values that underpin it: inclusiveness, generosity of spirit, respect and excellence.

St Mary’s Employability Service is currently operating a hybrid working model, whereby staff are expected to be on campus for three days per week pro rata, for these roles the expectation would be 3 days a week on campus. This is subject to regular review so may change in the longer term.

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
• 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 staff 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.