Careers Consultant

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to work predominantly with postgraduate researchers and research staff as part of the Careers Consultants for Researchers Team, to support development of career management skills and navigating careers in and beyond academia. This could be through in person or online workshops, one to one coaching appointments or designing digital resources.  You’ll work with home and international clients from across all the academic disciplines within King’s.  The ability to proactively build excellent stakeholder relationships across King’s and externally, particularly with the teams supporting researchers, is key.  You’ll be skilled at building rapport with a wide range of people and wish to utilise your excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills to deliver a high-quality service. 

We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role.

This post is for 0.9 FTE (31.5 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite  contract.  We welcome applications from candidates seeking a flexible work pattern around core delivery hours 10am-4.30pm.

If you think the role sounds interesting and you would like to understand more about it, we are providing two online information sessions where you can hear more about the role and ask questions.

Information session 1: Wednesday 28^th August 2024, 2pm-3pm. To join, click on this link.

Information session 2: Monday 2 September, 11-12pm. To join click on this link

For any further enquiries about the role please contact anna.favalessa@kcl.ac.uk or donald.lush@kcl.ac.uk who both work in the careers consultant team for researchers.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Degree or equivalent level education
2. Ability to establish and proactively build professional working relationships with external and internal stakeholders
3. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate clearly and appropriately with a range of audiences in different situations. This includes the ability to develop guidance skills to the level needed to work effectively with researchers.
4. Ability to use qualitative and quantitative information to critically evaluate, demonstrate and improve the effectiveness of activities
5. Ability to plan, prioritise and implement projects and regular tasks as part of a busy workload
6. Willingness and ability to seek new and better ways to deliver an excellent service including embracing technological developments
7. Sufficient work experience to provide understanding of a client’s career management needs. Evidence of an interest in the research environment and the issues researchers face in career management both within and beyond academia.
8. A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion

Desirable criteria

Qualifications & Training

A relevant professional qualification in careers and employability (we welcome candidates without a qualification but expect them to commit to acquiring an approved qualification once employed)

Full details of the role and the skills and experience required can be found in the attached job description which is provided on the next page.

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