Location: Multiple Campuses
Closing Date: 23.59 hours BST on Sunday 15 September 2024
Interview Date: Tuesday 01 October 2024
Birmingham City University is a large and diverse place to study right in the heart of the city and we have an exciting opportunity for 2 Careers Coaches to join our dynamic and growing team. The roles are Fixed-term for 12 - 18 months with the possibility to make permanent.
If you are looking for a new career, with potential for progression and are passionate about supporting a diverse and talented student base to secure a graduate role, this is a great time to consider joining our Careers+ service at Birmingham City University. Following the development of the University Employability Strategy, BCU is investing £2,000,000 in additional resources and staffing to support our students in gaining the skills and experience to develop successful future careers. The University strategy states: “We must ensure that our graduates enter their future careers ready to achieve their potential.”
About the role:
We are recruiting Careers Coaches for both Faculty Of Computing, Engineering And The Built Environment (12 month Fixed-term) and Faculty Of Health, Education And Life Sciences (end date 31/03/2026). You will have experience of providing careers information, advice and coaching in a person-centred way, with a good understanding of the needs and expectations of students. The role will involve actively reaching out to students, managing a caseload and delivering a variety of one-to-one and group-based employability coaching activities to enhance employability skills and make a positive impact upon graduate outcomes.
What’s in it for you?
In return for your dedication and hard work, you will benefit from ongoing opportunities for personal and professional development, as well as the following key benefits:
• Opportunity for hybrid working.
• Generous annual leave entitlement of 40 days (including bank holidays and closure periods).
• An attractive direct contribution pension scheme, or the option to retain LGPS for existing and previous members.
• Wellbeing advice and support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• A supportive and collaborative culture and work environment, rooted in BCU’s values.
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Role requirements:
You will be skilled in building successful professional relationships and understand how to engage less confident students who may have several external commitments competing for their time such as part-time work or family commitments. You will also be skilled at developing, delivering and measuring the impact of training programmes and initiatives; with experience of using technology to enhance and scale up service delivery.
As a key member of a Careers+ team you will work collaboratively with your Careers+ colleagues and faculty teams to achieve the best outcomes for students.
For existing Birmingham City University staff, undertaking the role on a secondment basis will also be considered.
If have any questions about the role relating to Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment please email Cheryl.phillips@bcu.ac.uk and relating to Health, Education and Life Science please email nejam.boksh@bcu.ac.uk
Further Details: Job Description
The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so, and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly.
OUR VISION
Birmingham City University is growing in quality and standing, with an academic STEAM agenda at the heart of our ambitions. We are transforming the lives of students and their communities, and want outstanding people to join us in taking us on the next stage of our exciting journey.
Our students learn through doing. They are empowered throughout their educational journey, achieving significant educational gain and personal transformation.
There has never been a better time to join us. Come and be part of the next exciting stage of our journey.
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY
At the heart of our 2025 Strategy is our mission is to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.
Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.
Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STE
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Posted: Sept. 1, 2024, 7:17 a.m.
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