Postgraduate Placements Officer Cardiff, Wales
Cardiff University
Full Time
Cardiff, Wales
29762 - 34314 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
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Postgraduate Placements Officer
Student Futures, part of the Student Life Division of Cardiff University, is a fast-paced department working with University colleagues, students, and employers to provide a service that enhances student employability and improves graduate outcomes.
Working as part of the Opportunities Zone team in the Business School, the focus of this role is to support students to undertake placements. The role will involve sourcing placement opportunities, supporting students, liaising with academic colleagues and employers, and undertaking development projects when required. The role will involve a particular focus on postgraduate students, and you will use a CRM system to manage the end-to-end processes involved in setting up, monitoring and evaluating placements. This will include individual placements and group projects. You will work within a team and establish process but there is lots of scope for creativity and initiative to grow this important provision for students in the Business School.
The post is full time (35 hours per week) and open-ended.
Salary: £29,762 - £34,314 per annum (Grade 5)
Due to the nature of this role, you may be occasionally required to undertake some work in evenings and at weekends.
Cardiff University offers many excellent benefits, including 37 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pro rata for part time staff, local pension scheme, a cycle to work scheme and other travel initiatives, annual increments up the pay scale, and more. It is an exciting and vibrant place to work, with many different challenges and is a proud Living Wage supporter.
Date advert posted: Thursday, 29 June 2023
Closing date: Sunday, 16 July 2023
Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.
Student Futures, part of the Student Life Division of Cardiff University, is a fast-paced department working with University colleagues, students, and employers to provide a service that enhances student employability and improves graduate outcomes.
Working as part of the Opportunities Zone team in the Business School, the focus of this role is to support students to undertake placements. The role will involve sourcing placement opportunities, supporting students, liaising with academic colleagues and employers, and undertaking development projects when required. The role will involve a particular focus on postgraduate students, and you will use a CRM system to manage the end-to-end processes involved in setting up, monitoring and evaluating placements. This will include individual placements and group projects. You will work within a team and establish process but there is lots of scope for creativity and initiative to grow this important provision for students in the Business School.
The post is full time (35 hours per week) and open-ended.
Salary: £29,762 - £34,314 per annum (Grade 5)
Due to the nature of this role, you may be occasionally required to undertake some work in evenings and at weekends.
Cardiff University offers many excellent benefits, including 37 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pro rata for part time staff, local pension scheme, a cycle to work scheme and other travel initiatives, annual increments up the pay scale, and more. It is an exciting and vibrant place to work, with many different challenges and is a proud Living Wage supporter.
Date advert posted: Thursday, 29 June 2023
Closing date: Sunday, 16 July 2023
Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.
Job Description
Key Duties
- Provide professional advice and guidance on work placement processes and procedures to internal and external customers, using judgement and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action where appropriate, and ensuring complex and conceptual issues are understood.
- Investigate and analyse specific issues within work experience, creating recommendation reports, supported by advances within work placements.
- Ensure that the provision of work placements is delivered to the institution, proactively changing the delivery according to customer requirements.
- Collaborate with others in order to make recommendations for developments of established processes and procedures.
- Establish working relationships with key contacts, developing appropriate communication links with the University’s Schools/Directorates and outside bodies as required.
- Create specific working groups from colleagues across the University to achieve school/ departmental objectives.
- Supervise specific project teams on an occasional basis to accomplish key objectives.
- Develop and deliver training within work placements.
- Undertake a variety of administrative duties to support the department.
- Instruct and guide other employees across the University within work experience as required.
- Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties.
- Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity.
- Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role.
- Manage the Cardiff Business School placements inbox, acting as the first point of contact for internal and external customers.
- Coordinate and host events such as student drop ins.
- Manage key placement projects with support from the Placements Manager. For example, Postgraduate Live Business Projects and placements on curricular postgraduate programmes
- Evaluating placement programmes for continuous improvement
- Collating data on work placements for use in promotional activities
- Approving work placement and monitoring students in placement
- Identifying new placement opportunities and sometimes acting as a lead contact for employers.
- Continuous improvement of processes and procedures for managed placement programmes within Cardiff Business School.
- Produce articles and marketing collateral; raising the profile of work placements amongst stakeholders.
Person Specification
Important notice:
Essential Criteria
Qualifications and Education
- It is the University’s policy to use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing. Candidates should evidence that they meet ALL of the essential criteria as well as, where relevant, the desirable.
- As part of the application process you will be asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement.
- Please ensure that the evidence you are providing corresponds with the numbered criteria outlined below.
- Your application will be considered based on the information you provide under each element.
Essential Criteria
Qualifications and Education
- Degree/NVQ 4 or equivalent Professional membership/experience
- Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Substantial experience of working within higher education, recruitment or work experience.
- Able to demonstrate professional knowledge of business education and/or placements to give advice and guidance to internal and external customers.
- Ability to set up standard office systems and procedures and make improvements as appropriate.
- Ability to communicate conceptually detailed and complex information effectively and professionally with a wide range of people.
- Evidence of ability to explore customers’ needs and adapt the service accordingly to ensure a quality service is delivered.
- Ability to make presentations and undertake business networking with a wide range of employers
- Evidence of ability to solve expansive problems using initiative and creativity; identifying and proposing practical solutions and resolving problems with range of potential outcomes.
- Evidence of ability to work unsupervised to targets and deadlines, planning and setting priorities for own work and that of others and monitoring progress.
- A willingness to undertake further training and development.
- Postgraduate/Professional qualification
- Experience of working in a Higher Education environment
- Fluency in Welsh, written and oral
Salary Range Min.
29,762
Salary Range Max.
34,314
Job Category
Admin / Clerical
Grade
Grade 5
Postgraduate Placements Officer | Cardiff University
