Work-related Learning Adviser (Accredited Programmes)

King's College London, United Kingdom

Updated: 1 day ago
Location: Strand, ENGLAND
Deadline: 19 May 2024

Job id: 088867. Salary: £37,332 per annum inclusive of London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 01 May 2024. Closing date: 19 May 2024.

Business unit: Students & Education. Department: Employer Engagement.

Contact details:Melissa Ingleton. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.


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.

​We pride ourselves on being the trusted partner of choice in sourcing and developing talent for organisations around the world. King’s Careers & Employability seeks to enable and empower students, recent alumni, and researchers from all disciplines and walks of life, to gain the knowledge, skills and experiences they need to effectively navigate their lives and careers after university and achieve lifelong success. Our Work-based Learning unit brings together our King’s Internships and Global Placements teams, supporting students and employers to undertake meaningful work experiences across a range of provision, developing innovative partnerships and opportunities for key student demographics.

​We are part of the 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

The Work-based Learning Adviser (Accredited) is an integral part of our expanding portfolio of credit-bearing learning opportunities for students across a range of disciplines. The role holder will be responsible for the facilitation and rollout of group-based, virtual live employer projects, an alternative solution for undergraduate and postgraduate students registered on credit-bearing internship modules.  They will need to source relevant live project briefs from a range of UK and international external organisations, which are in keeping with pre-selected themes, and approved by individual module academic leads as well. 

Alongside this, they are responsible for wider oversight of our Accredited Internship Programme, working exclusively with optional credit-bearing internship modules across some of our undergraduate and postgraduate-taught degree programmes.They will manage relationships with internship module academic leads across three different faculties, as well as work collaboratively with our digital platform hosts, Practera. The successful post holder will also work collaboratively with other members of the Work-based Learning Unit to develop and deliver digital educational content, drop-ins and workshops for the benefit of all students at King’s exploring options for undertaking meaningful work experience.

This is a full-time position, and you will be offered an indefinite contract.


About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

  • Relevant work experience might include work in Graduate Recruitment, Marketing, Project Management or Higher Education Careers Services.  or  Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training in work-based or work-related learning.
  • Clear, concise and effective verbal and oral communication
  • Stakeholder management which develops trust and enables collaboration between colleagues and/or stakeholders
  • Ability to creatively produce marketing and promotional messages to expand awareness and interest in a programme or opportunity with different audience 
  • Working knowledge of MS Office suite of applications, as well as MS teams and other hybrid working platforms
  • Ability to manage a project, including outlining a clear timeline of activities, identifying important milestones and work to defined expected goals and outcomes 
  • Experience of reviewing the outcomes of a programme or project, including analysing data, and outlining future areas of improvement

    • Desirable criteria

  • Ability to undertake Employer Engagement activities, such as creating, developing and building relationships with external organisations with measurable outputs from that relationship
  • Possess knowledge and understanding of issues relevant to obtaining internships at undergraduate and postgraduate taught level. And/or Understanding of issues relevant to obtaining internships for international students
  • ​A qualification in work-related learning or education pedagogy e.g. PGCert in HE/Learning & Teaching
  • Experience of supporting students and/or young people, preferably in work-based learning and/or a careers and employability context  
  • Proficiency in data analysis, utilising digital platforms, virtual learning environments and/or client management platforms

    • Downloading a copy of our Job Description

    Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.



    Further information

    We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

    We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

    We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

    To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit ’ pages.


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