Employer Engagement Advisor

As part of the Strategic plan, the University of Greenwich intends to elevate its employability support for students, alumni, and employers, as well as growing and enhancing its apprenticeship provision. The university has a long-held commitment to employment focussed degrees, and this department plays an essential part in ensuring the university is a sector leader in its relationships with employers and partners and is recognised as providing students with outstanding employability support. 

This role will be responsible for engaging and building strategic relationships with relevant employers at both local and national scale, to develop sustainable talent pipelines. Coordinating employer involvement with our Service, the post holder will act as primary account manager and manage correspondence with our partners, identifying their recruitment needs and delivering solutions. The post holder will manage relationships with organisations in a ‘sector cluster:’ • Cluster 1 – accountancy, finance, business, consulting, HR, hospitality, retail, sales, travel and tourism. 

For an informal discussion about the post please contact Head of Employer Engagement, Jessica Swan on J.Swan@greenwich.ac.uk.  

Should you have any recruitment related queries please contact the People Operations Team on peopleoperations-emp@gre.ac.uk.

Further details of the fantastic benefits and what we offer can be found here: Our benefits - what we offer | Jobs and careers | University of Greenwich and information on the university’s working principles: Working Principles and Guidelines | Documents | University of Greenwich.

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We are looking for people who can help us deliver our mission of transforming lives through inspired teaching and research, through our values.

We are committed to building a strong, diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We particularly encourage applications from [protected characteristic(s)], who are currently under-represented within the University of Greenwich at these levels/within these areas.

We do this through taking positive action such as encouraging applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Time to Change Employer Pledge/Mentally Healthy Universities, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff, and removing barriers to improve inclusion. 

We encourage applicants to disclose experience of mental health problems so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Any information disclosed will be kept confidential and separate from the job application form. 

We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management. 

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