Employability and Placements Adviser (Faculty Lead Support)

University of Exeter; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in Exeter seeks a Faculty Lead Support to enhance employability initiatives. This full-time role involves coordinating between faculties and Student Employability and Academic Success, ensuring smooth operations and effective governance. Offering a hybrid working model, competitive salary, and extensive benefits including a generous annual leave package, this position is crucial for aligning employability strategies with academic programmes.

Benefits

Incredible USS pension scheme

41 days annual leave

Flexible working options

Discounts at local and national shops

Discounted fitness centres

Sustainable travel incentives

Qualifications

• Experience in educational services or employability support.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with academic staff.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate faculty-level employability priorities.
• Support governance structures and events.
• Liaise with academic departments to ensure effective communication.

Skills

Coordination

Administration

Collaboration

Job description

Overview

Education and Academic Services - Student Employability and Academic Success (SEAS)

This new full time (1.0FTE) post is immediately available on a permanent basis.

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.

The role

The EPA (Faculty Lead Support) post provides dedicated coordination and administrative capacity to underpin the delivery of faculty-level employability priorities, strengthening the alignment between SEAS and academic colleagues. Working closely with Faculty Leads, this role acts as a key enabler for the smooth running of governance structures, projects, and events that connect employability strategy with academic programmes.

The Team

The team of SEAS Faculty Leads provide liaison and business partnering support between faculties and their academic departments and the services delivered by SEAS supporting the general portfolio of careers, employability and placement activity specific to faculty-caseloads. The team also facilitates and co-ordinates a programme of employer and alumni-led events, bespoke projects and activities for faculties including oversight of dedicated budgets.

Organisational Context

Student Employability and Academic Success (SEAS) resides within the Education and Student Support and the division for Education and Academic Services which is responsible for providing key education and administrative support activities that underpin the student experience. SEAS consists of professional services teams that provide a portfolio of educational activities to assist students with the development of their academic, professional, personal, career and employability attributes throughout their time at university, including support dedicated services for under-represented and disadvantaged students. Provision is delivered within the curriculum, and in collaboration with Faculties and academic departments, through extra-curricular activity and through facilitating access to work and study opportunities on campus, across the UK and globally. SEAS colleagues work collaboratively in the delivery of such provision with students, academics, employers, business intermediaries, alumni, other professional services, University stakeholders and higher education partners. SEAS collates data for internal management purposes and contributes to mandatory data compliance reporting for Government and other external stakeholders

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

Benefits

• Incredible USS pension scheme
• Substantial annual leave package of 41 days! (33 days + bank holidays)
• Sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave(up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a new Fertility Treatment Policy
• Flexible Working options
• Benefit from fantastic discounts at local and national shops through numerous discount schemes
• Discounted state-of-the-art fitness centres on all our campuses
• Join our sustainable travel initiative by enjoying discounted bus passes, cycle to work scheme and taking advantage of car sharing incentives. Save money and reduce your carbon footprint.
• Stunning campus locations in Exeter and Cornwall

Further information

Please contact Paul Blackmore, [e-mail].

The starting salary will be from £33,951 on Grade E, depending on qualifications and experience

The deadline for applications is 23:59 on 16 October 2025.