Careers Consultant

About us

UCL Careers provides careers education to current students, graduates and staff of UCL, as well as recruitment solutions for employers. UCL Careers provides a ‘core’ service for students as well as bespoke support within some academic areas, including UCL’s School of Management.

About the role

Joining our dedicated UCL School of Management Careers Team, in this job you'll be working with our postgraduate taught (PGT) students in the first instance. UCL School of Management’s PGT students are a highly international and diverse student body, studying subjects including MSc Finance, MSc Management and MSc Business Analytics. They are an aspirational and exciting group to work with, most typically seeking careers in Management Consulting, Finance or Technology.

You will plan and deliver a comprehensive Careers and Professional Development Programme. This includes a mix of workshops, seminars, 1:1 coaching and application support, ensuring that every student has access to personal, bespoke support on their own unique Careers journey, and the ability to excel in the recruitment process. There will also be lots of work with internal and external colleagues and stakeholders, so confidence in, and enjoyment of, developing relationships and partnership working is really important, as is the ability to plan, lead on and manage areas of work to a high standard and agreed objectives/outcomes.

We plan to shortlist for the job week commencing 7th October, and interview week commencing 14th October.

About you

To do this job you'll need a passion for coaching/mentoring, and experience of supporting the career development of others. Having experience in, or knowledge of, one or more of our students’ top sectors of interest (Management Consulting, Finance, Technology), is advantageous.

The UCL Careers’ School of Management team are constantly challenging themselves to develop and be better in order to deliver sector-leading Careers support. We are looking for people who share a similar commitment to professional excellence, and who thrive on being part of a busy, collaborative team.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

-41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)

-Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme

-Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)

-Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan

-Immigration loan

-Relocation scheme for certain posts

-On-Site nursery

-On-site gym

-Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay

-Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service

-Discounted medical insurance

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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