Postgraduate Professional Development Manager

Background

Founded in 1894, City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location.

City attracts around 20,000 students (over 40% postgraduate level) from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

In the last decade, City has almost tripled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research.

Led by President, Professor Sir Paul Curran, City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realising its vision of being a leading global university.

City Business School is one of Europe’s leading providers of business and management education and is fast becoming the intellectual hub of the City of London. The Postgraduate Professional Development Manager plays a vital role in the Postgraduate Career & Professional Development Team. The team provide careers support to approx. 400 full time MBA and part time executive MBA students across four formats and 1500 specialist Masters students across 20 plus programmes.

  Responsibilities

The successful candidate will demonstrate the passion and ability to positively impact lifelong employability and employment opportunities for City Business School Postgraduates. The role holder contributes to the provision, co-ordination and evaluation of a high-quality Career and Professional Development curriculum encompassing workshops, industry overviews and one to one careers advice and coaching. This requires up to date knowledge of effective training methods, the evolving jobs market, recruitment trends and selections methods, and the ability to effectively impart this knowledge to a highly diverse range of students. This role will support the development of online Careers services and digital engagement with students. This is a part-time 0.8 FTE role.

  Person Specification

• Experience in the design & delivery of workshops; confident presentation skills required
• Experience in the management of a learning and development curriculum
• Experience of one-to-one career advice and working with career changers (career coaching qualification preferable)
• Has held a Senior L&D, Talent Management or Recruitment role
• Experience of CV/application screening, designing and delivering interviews and assessment centres
• Experience of online recruitment tools and / or digital professional development platforms
• Preferably BPS Level A and B Qualified (Euro Test User Certificate Level 2)

  Additional Information

City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

Closing date for applications: 11.59pm 31st May 2021

City, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture, for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or social class. For more information on our approaches to encouraging an inclusive environment, please see our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Pages.

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