Deputy Head of Careers (Education, Advice and Guidance)

About the Role
This senior management role offers you the opportunity to provide strategic leadership and oversight for the Careers, Education and Guidance team within the Careers and Enterprise Service. You will collaborate with the leadership team to establish and execute the strategy, bringing together all the service activities to provide a unified direction and a cohesive approach to how we deliver aims of the university’s 2030 strategy.

About You
You will play a pivotal role in building effective relationships with academic schools and faculties and ensuring partnership agreements, informed by robust data, are implemented and evaluated. You will have experience of delivering large-scale careers education, advice and guidance activities informed by up-to-date knowledge of the graduate recruitment market.

Your role will involve providing motivational leadership to your team, creating an innovative working environment that helps the team to meet the key performance indicators. You should have experience of leading and managing projects, with the tenacity and drive to overcome challenges and balance priorities in order to make progress and achieve positive outcomes.

About the Service
The Careers and Enterprise Team’s aim is to further develop the employability of Queen Mary University of London students from enrolment until three years after graduation. The Team consists of around 60 FTE staff, working in partnership with academic schools and employers to provide inclusive careers support and opportunities to Queen Mary students and graduates.

Our vision is to open the doors of opportunity for Queen Mary students and graduates. We are committed to supporting our diverse student population, distinctive for a Russell Group University, as evidenced by the Institute of Fiscal Studies/Sutton Trust report, which considers Queen Mary the top university in Britain for social mobility.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality