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The King’s Business School Careers team support our students’ career planning, application processes and professional development throughout their studies. We are a team of twelve, all with a passion for our students’ futures and we have a friendly, helpful culture operating in a flexible environment.
About the role
This position is a 12-month contract and both part-time and full-time applicants will be considered.
The position will deliver an excellent quality careers provision for our postgraduate students who are mainly early careers jobseekers and often international students, exploring one of their first significant professional career steps. The position focuses predominantly on finance programmes and will also support other programmes from our MSc offering.
The position will engage with students, offering high quality advice and guidance through 1:1 consultation, small group sessions and large workshops and will be responsible for the creation of materials, signposting to opportunities and further Careers access and the delivery of high-quality materials.
Our Senior Careers Consultants strive for the progression of Career Education in our student learning journey, and this position will liaise with and support academic colleagues as we continue to embed careers within the curriculum and evolve the provision to be present throughout every student’s journey. King’s Business School looks to develop our students with knowledge, experience, skills and attributes for future success, and Careers contributes to the student’s development across all these areas.
This position suits someone who is strategically minded, data driven and passionate about preparing and supporting young people for the world of work and all this entails. They can work across multiple student groups and demographics with equality, accessibility and quality being forefront of their provision.
Candidates would be required to work in a hybrid role expect to work both on campus and remotely for this role. There is a requirement for 2 days per week on campus with additional days being optional to candidate preference.
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
- Strong coaching skills with experience supporting young people
- Project management experience with a track record of leading and delivering projects from concept to evaluation
- A good knowledge of the current job market and an understanding of skills and attribute frameworks and how these can be integrated into learning
- The ability to use qualitative and quantitative information to critically evaluate, demonstrate and improve the effectiveness of activities
- Strategically minded with an ability to identify areas of growth, opportunity and weakness
- Skilled in engaging and managing senior stakeholders relationships with the ability to communicate clearly and appropriately with a range of audiences in a variety of different situations
- Strong leadership skills with a people-centric approach
Desirable criteria
- A relevant professional qualification in careers and employability
- Exposure to the banking and finance industry
- Experience of delivering high quality teaching
- Experience working with international students
Full details of the role and the skills and experience required, can be found in the attached job description which provided on the next page.
Further Information
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
To find out how our managers review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.
Interviews are due to be held on w/c 29th April or 6th May.
This role does not meet the requirements of the Home Office and therefore are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who require the right to work in the UK.
Contact details: Rachel Tonner. Rachel.tonner@kcl.ac.uk
Closing date: 22 April 2024.
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