Careers Advisor, Manchester

QA Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Careers Advisor to enhance graduate outcomes and support students in their career journeys. This role involves providing tailored career guidance, conducting workshops, and maintaining up-to-date knowledge of employability trends. You will play a crucial role in helping students navigate their future career paths, ensuring they are well-equipped to make informed decisions. Join a dynamic team committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive educational environment, where your contributions will significantly impact students' lives and career prospects.

Qualifications

• Experience in careers guidance and employability sector is essential.
• Good IT skills and familiarity with online learning platforms are required.

Responsibilities

• Provide career guidance to students and graduates to help them succeed.
• Deliver workshops and sessions to promote employability services.

Skills

Careers Guidance

Employability Sector Knowledge

IT Skills

Online Learning Platforms Navigation

Education

Relevant Degree or Qualification

Job description

Careers Advisor
QA Higher Education, Manchester City Centre Campus
Monday-Friday 9am-5.30pm Hybrid working 4 days on campus.

Do you have experience within the Careers Guidance & Employability sector? Are you keen to work with our Higher Education Students (many of whom are international students) to help guide & place them into employment? With your qualified knowledge & experience of the employability sector along with having good IT skills ideally including the ability to navigate different online learning platforms etc., then we have the perfect opportunity for you!

About our role: The focus for our Careers Advisor role is to enhance our graduate outcomes and student experience. As Careers Advisor you will be involved in helping current students and graduates achieve their career and employability goals, enabling them to make informed decisions about their future. You will be required to develop and maintain a good knowledge of the graduate labour market and key employability trends in different industries, so you can best support students and graduates.

Here’s some of what’s involved:

1. Act as an initial point of contact and provide first line support for all enquiries to the Careers Service - whether in person, or email - from students, alumni, employers and faculty.
2. Deliver high quality bespoke career guidance appointments to students and graduates to allow them to make informed decisions about their future.
3. Create and deliver workshops and group sessions (such as induction/class drop-ins) that are relevant to the scope of this role and the promotion of the Service to the student population and faculty members.
4. Encourage students to attend workshops and/or a 1:1 appointment with a Careers Advisor based on their careers/employability requirement, managing the booking system to ensure workshops and appointments are resourced effectively.
5. Actively develop knowledge of current careers and employability information and trends, and contribute to the updating and production of printed and online resources, under the guidance of the Careers Advisor Team Leader.
6. Advertise and promote opportunities available to students in relation to employers and employability including voluntary, work experience, graduate jobs etc. via monthly newsletter, targeted emails etc.
7. Deliver specific projects and activities related to careers, employability that enhance the work of the Careers and Employability Service and the student experience.

What We'll Do For You!

A little more about QA Higher Education: Students preparing for undergraduate study. Working professionals looking to specialise in their field. Career changers. Everyone should be given access to outstanding higher education and our aim at QA is to make that possible.

We work with our partner universities to offer courses ranging from foundation programmes to postgraduate degrees covering subject areas including Accountancy, Business, Computing, Cyber, Digital Marketing, Events Management, Project Management and Web Development and delivered in city centre locations.

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At QA Higher Education, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. This means we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Vacancy location

North West, Lancashire, Manchester (St James Buildings)