Job Description
Grade UE06: £34,132 to £39,355 per annum, pro-rata if part time
USG / Student Experience Services / Careers Service
Full-time: 35 hours per week
Open-ended (permanent)
The Opportunity
Are you passionate about supporting students and recent graduates to achieve rewarding futures? Are you confident delivering presentations and workshops to groups as well as working in one-to-one settings?
We are looking for two Career Development Advisers to join our Information and Engagement team. In this new role, you will empower students by coordinating and delivering a range of career management sessions, offering 1:1 advice, and conducting practice interviews. Your work will support students in developing the skills they need to succeed in their personal and professional lives – whatever their future might hold.
In everything we do at the Careers Service, we aim to open students’ and recent graduates’ eyes to the wealth of possibilities ahead of them. Year-round, we deliver a diverse programme of activities, services, information and support. In this role, you will play a vital part in coordinating and delivering a central programme of workshops, collaborating with others across the Careers Service and beyond to ensure content is relevant, accurate, engaging and of the highest quality.
For more information about our work, visit our website https://careers.ed.ac.uk/ or connect with us on social media @uofedcareers on Instagram and LinkedIn .
For an informal chat about the role, contact Blythe (Information & Engagement Team Leader) via
[email protected] .
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
- Confident communicator with experience in one-to-one advising and group presentations
- Knowledge of the UK graduate labour market
- Strong organisational and time-management skills
- Independence and initiative as well as team-working skills
- Problem-solving skills
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits
We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.
Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
- CV
- Cover letter explaining why you are interested in this role, what skills and experience you could bring to it
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, and wish to particularly encourage applications from disabled people, from men, and from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates, as we acknowledge they are currently underrepresented in our area.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our
right to work webpages.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
The closing date for applications is Tuesday 29 th July.
Interviews will likely be held in the week beginning 11 th or 18 th August.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
Our award winning Careers Service gives careers advice to matriculated students and recent graduates to help them find personal and professional achievement and fulfilling futures by working in partnership with academic colleagues and employers. Students are also helped to build up useful work experience through part-time and vacation employment. Providing a world-class careers service for world-class graduates demands a challenging level of skills and talents and the highest standards of professionalism.
To find out more, visit https://www.ed.ac.uk/careers
