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Employer Relations & Development Adviser

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater)
Salary
£33,114 - £37,804 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
6 Feb 2022

Job Details

Job Description

About Us  

The King’s community is dedicated to the service of society. King’s Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us. 

King’s College London prides itself on being the trusted partner of choice in sourcing and developing talent for organisations around the world – King’s Careers & Employability facilitates excellent career management and employability services supporting our students and alumni, enabling them to develop effective career skills and build a platform for future success. 

We are part of the wider Students & Education Directorate, a collection of wide-ranging professional services in place to support King’s students and their education. As a directorate we manage the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond, to ensure a coherent and seamless student experience and effective administrative processes, working closely with King’s faculties to do so. 

 

About the Role

We are recruiting Employer Relations & Development Advisers to cultivate and develop our engagement with our hundreds of employer partners, playing an important role in enhancing the global employability of our students and graduates and ensuring King’s College London remains a top-tier target institution for the widest range of graduate employers.  

The post holders will be responsible for business development and opportunity provision within: 

Technology & Engineering 

Experience/knowledge of, or enthusiasm for these specific areas is not essential to conduct the role but would be desirable, and applicants should specify this in their applications.

 

We strive to build personalised, bespoke and innovative strategies with employers and partners in the UK and internationally understanding each client’s needs, building our labour market intelligence and facilitating remote and physical interventions for them to enhance their brand through opportunities to engage and develop our talent.  

Identifying target employers, they will account manage individual relationships and develop partnerships to support our strategy of embedding employability into programme design and enrichment of the academic curriculum, as well as looking after associated labour market intelligence, knowledge and facilitate engagement in our growing events portfolio.  The role will form a part of the Employer Relations & Development team which sits within Employer Engagement.  

 

We seek a natural networker, who enjoys building and maintaining relationships with a wide range of contacts across the corporate, public and third sectors.  They will possess relevant work experience in the higher education, recruitment, commercial or marketing field.  Successful candidates will be articulate, flexible and future-focused with strong relationship management skills, constantly seeking to develop innovative new ways to engage, meeting demanding targets for intelligence gathering, analysis of data, provision of vacancies and internships working alongside collaboratively with other members of the department.  

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

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.

This is a full-time post, but we welcome applications from candidates seeking a flexible work pattern. There may be occasional evening or weekend working to support our programme of events.

Key responsibilities

  • Research, create, develop and cultivate relationships with a breath of organisations in the UK and overseas in the designated cluster, and develop innovative practices to engage with these employers, serving their needs in relation to student demands, drawing on careers registration, student engagement and Graduate Outcomes data 
  • Deliver targeted outreach with participants, speakers and alumni to facilitate opportunity development and activities including virtual fairs, skills workshops, masterclasses, panels and associated sponsorship 
  • Instigate and consider opportunities for embedding employability into the curriculum – either in faculty or in supporting academic assessment and meaningful work opportunities – developing students’ knowledge, attributes, skills and experiences 
  • Develop innovative practices to engage employers, constantly upselling King’s, our opportunities and student talent, forming lasting partnerships 
  • Respond to queries in a timely manner, providing relevant information and producing reports and recommendations efficiently and effectively for stakeholders and senior managers 
  • Liaise and collaborate with colleagues across Employer Engagement, the institution, professional bodies and other universities to develop a network of knowledge, contacts and opportunity development, keeping abreast of current and future developments in the graduate labour market 
  • Evaluate employer needs, provide advice and consultancy on recruitment strategies and plans at King’s, identifying bespoke, evidence-based strategies of engagement 
  • Maintain accurate and detailed records of labour market information and progress utilising our internal careers service management system (CSMS) to track progress and relationship development, allowing colleagues to extract key intelligence as required 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria

  • Relevant work experience and/or education: We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in Graduate Recruitment, Marketing or Careers Services. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training 
  • Proven experience of developing new and existing external partnerships effectively to broaden networks 
  • Ability to successfully negotiate and influence a range of stakeholders, marketing and developing services to grow and broaden opportunities at every opportunity 
  • Ability to communicate complex information clearly in a multi-faceted environment with a range of stakeholders at various levels of seniority 
  • Ability to follow processes, policies and agreements to provide maximum effectiveness in delivery of relationship management and targets 
  • Strong research and analytical skills, supporting operational delivery of the portfolio, constructing reports and data sets as required 
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate clearly, concisely and persuasively in writing, and orally 
  • Knowledge and understanding of the UK graduate labour market, needs of employers and the current graduate employability landscape 
  • Strong digital capabilities, including usage of business communication platforms, CRM and e-learning tools 
  • Proven experience of innovation and creativity when coming forward with new ideas and developing and reviewing new processes or initiatives 

Desirable criteria

  • Knowledge and understanding of the higher education landscape, including the impact of national policy issues on work-based learning, experiential and student employability 

Further information

 Your application should clearly set out how you meet the essential criteria as this is how we shortlist applications. Learn more about how we recruit, including tips on writing your application and supporting statement on our website:   https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/applying     

Interviews will be held using Microsoft Teams and will consist of competency-based questions linked closely to the essential and desirable criteria mentioned here. 

Although we have made improvements over the last number of years, our team is still under-represented in terms of staff from global majority ethnicities, LGBTQ+ identities, and from people with disabilities. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries, and are committed to employing a team that has diverse skills, experiences and abilities. 

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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