Careers Consultant

About us

UCL Careers provides careers education to current students, graduates and staff of UCL. UCL Careers provides a ‘core’ service for students as well as bespoke support within some academic areas. UCL Laws is a diverse and progressive community of researchers, students, leading academics and alumni embedded in a top, research-oriented university.

About the role

PLEASE NOTE: We are able to consider part time and full time applicants for this job, at anything from three to five days a week. For three days a week this will focus on supporting students on our Masters in Law and Finance, which goes live in September 2025. Any further days will support the UCL Careers central delivery function.

Duties for each area as follows:

Law and Finance:

You'll be developing materials for a careers education programme, as well as setting up placements with employers for the first cohort of students due to start in September 2025. You'll also support and develop the students via talks, workshops and events, along with conducting 1:1 careers guidance appointments.

UCL Careers central delivery:

You'll support and develop students from a range of faculties and departments via talks, workshops and events, along with conducting 1:1 careers guidance appointments.

A full range of duties can be found on the attached job description.

We plan to hold interviews in early January 2025.

About you

Things you'll need for this job include:

-Work experience at graduate-level (ideally within the legal, financial or commercial sectors).

-Ability to communicate clearly and appropriately with a range of audiences.

-A high level of professional and interpersonal skills.

-The ability to use qualitative and quantitative information

-The ability to plan, prioritise and implement long-term projects and regular tasks

-The ability to identify personal strengths and weaknesses, and a willingness to develop

Please review our job description, paying particular attention to the essential and desirable criteria, and ensure these are covered in your application.

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)
• 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

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

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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