Careers Consultant - Distance and Flexible Learners

Job reference: 002265

Salary: A starting salary of £38,109, with a maximum of up to £41,273 per annum (dependent on experience)

Closing date: 14/03/2023

Department: The Careers Group

Location: London Stewart House

Employment type: Open ended

Sub-Department: University of London Careers Service

Hours Per Week: 35 hours per week

Careers Consultant, University of London Careers Service - Distance and Flexible Learners - The Careers Group, University of London

The University of London Careers Service (UoLCS) is recruiting for a Careers Consultant to work with our distance and flexible learning students. We are looking to hire for one full time post.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding and innovative Careers team. As a University of London Careers Consultant, you will work in collaboration with the wider University of London Careers Service team, University of London colleagues, our member institutions and internationally-based affiliated Teaching Centres, to design and deliver the highest possible standard of careers and employability support to our students and clients.

University of London distance and flexible learning students are based across the world, mostly studying undergraduate or postgraduate programmes. Some of the students are based within an affiliated Teaching Centre in their home country, whilst many are independent learners completing their studies alone. Given the diversity of the cohort, University of London Careers Service uses a three-part Career Stage Framework (CSF) to represent the different levels of work-based experience which University of London Careers Service students represent; Career Starters, Career Developers and Career Changers. The Career Stage Framework informs the work of the UoLCS Careers Consultants in the design, delivery and evaluation of the virtual and global careers and employability provision for our students, which enables our clients to acquire the skills and resources necessary to plan and manage their careers and to secure appropriate employment or further study.

University of London Careers Consultants also collaborate with colleagues from across The Careers Group (TCG) on activities that enhance the quality and effectiveness of our services.

We are looking for candidates who have experience within Higher Education careers and employability services and have a relevant qualification in careers guidance or coaching.

For a full role profile, please refer to the job description below.

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 the Job Pack. For an informal chat about the role please contact Laura Brammar, Deputy Head of Careers: laura.brammar@careers.lon.ac.uk

Applicants for the role are also strongly recommended to observe some of the virtual sessions delivered by the UoLCS Careers Consultant team to our distance and flexible learning students. Details of these observation opportunities are in the Job Pack.

To be considered for this opportunity, please submit your application on www.london.ac.uk/jobs before the closing date at midnight on Tuesday 14 March 2023.

Interviews and assessment activities will take place on Friday 24 March 2023. Panel interview and assessment activities are planned to take place virtually.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Pursuing excellence in education and equal opportunities.

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