Student Professional Development Consultant (EDI Project)

Job Purpose

The University of Glasgow is committed to empowering students to identify and achieve their career goals and realise their full potential. As a member of Student Professional Development Team in Careers, Employability & Opportunity, you will support the career planning and professional development of students (UG, PGT, PGR) and early-career graduates.

Data shows that students from widening participation backgrounds and those with disabilities may face additional barriers to pursuing or securing graduate level outcomes. This role will lead on focused work to understand how we can ensure our career development activities and opportunities are visible, inclusive and accessible to these cohorts.

You will make a significant contribution to the successful graduate outcome of our students by championing inclusive and accessible careers and employability activity and supporting colleagues to embed this into the student experience.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

1. Undertake research with key stakeholders to understand the professional development barriers aced by students from widening participation backgrounds and those with disabilities and make and implement recommendations to address these.

2. Using a proactive and targeted approach, work in close partnership with colleagues who are responsible for supporting students with specific needs and/or from non-traditional backgrounds to ensure programmes are designed to reach and address the needs of students that are underrepresented.

3. Consult with students as stakeholders and the student organisations to identify opportunities for service enhancement. Work in partnership with students to develop projects, events and other initiatives.

4. Work closely with other members of the Student Professional Development and Academic  partnerships teams to improve the career outcomes of students, developing training and good practice to enhance the inclusivity and accessibility of all careers and employability activity.

5. Work in close collaboration with the Employer Engagement Team to ensure that activities are linked with employers and meeting skills required in the global recruitment market. Identify appropriate areas for employer input and delivery to enable the Employer Engagement Team to identify and communicate with suitable employers.

6. Analyse and interpret data relating to graduate outcomes, internal surveys and labour market intelligence, to help inform provision with a particular focus on underrepresented groups.

7. Monitor the effectiveness, quality and impact of provision, feedback from students and other stakeholders, and use this to inform planning and practice. Maintain a current understanding of trends in the global labour market to inform planning and practice.

Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills and Experience 

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential 

A1 Either: Ability to demonstrate the competencies required to undertake the duties associated with this level of post having acquired the necessary knowledge and skills in a similar or number of different professional roles. Or: Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework level 9, (Ordinary Degree, Scottish Vocational Qualification level 4), or equivalent (including professional qualifications), and experience of personal development in a similar or related role(s).

A2 Thorough knowledge of student employability, as well as an awareness of broader higher education landscape and issue impacting students.

A3 Understanding of the particular challenges facing graduates from widening participation backgrounds and those with disabilities in entering professional outcomes.

Skills

Essential 

C1 Strong interpersonal skills including negotiating, motivating, influencing and relationship building.

C2 Proven track record of effective team working to shared goals.

C3 Excellent communication, including presentation and report-writing skills.

C4 Ability to undertake mid to long term strategic planning spotting and acting upon opportunities to progress plans.

C5 Ability to demonstrate creativity and innovation in service design and delivery.

C6 Ability to analyse complex issues and think strategically.

C7 Understanding of relevant policies and procedures relative to the role, and the quality outputs and standards required.

Desirable 

D1 Digital content creation and social media.

Experience 

Essential 

E1 Professional experience as a careers adviser , or in a specialist inclusive employability-related role.

E2 Strong track record of designing and delivering professional careers and employability interventions that are aimed at addressing the needs of diverse stakeholder groups.

E3 Proven ability to work within complex range of teams, manage multiple projects, including collaboration with internal colleagues within the University and at other institutions. Demonstrate effective time management to deal with conflicting priorities and deadlines.

E4 Planning and progressing projects within professional guidelines applying initiative and independent judgement.

E5 Demonstrable experience of evaluating service delivery for continuous improvement.

E6 Experience of applying initiative and knowledge to make informed decisions on a wide range of student-related issues.

Desirable  

F1 Experience of working in an HE environment.

Terms and Conditions

Salary will be Grade 7, £39,347 - £44,263 per annum.

This post is full time (35 hours per week) and fixed term until 31 July 2025 in the first instance.

As part of Team UofG you will be a member of a world changing, inclusive community, which values ambition, excellence, integrity and curiosity.

As a valued member of our team, you can expect:

1 A warm welcoming and engaging organisational culture, where your talents are developed and nurtured, and success is celebrated and shared.

3 A flexible approach to working.

We believe that we can only reach our full potential through the talents of all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Applications are particularly welcome from across our communities and in particular people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented within the University. Read more on how the University promotes and embeds all aspects of equality and diversity within our community  

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/

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