Graduate Career Coach

Manchester Metropolitan University; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A distinguished higher education institution in Manchester seeks a Graduate Career Coach to empower graduates in their employability journey. This full-time position involves providing career support, coaching sessions, and collaborative projects to enhance graduate outcomes. The candidate should have excellent communication and digital literacy skills, with a proactive attitude towards team collaboration. This role offers a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility between home and office environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for graduates seeking careers and employability support.
• Use coaching experience to enable graduates to achieve their full potential.
• Deliver one-to-one career appointments and group sessions.

Skills

Active listening

Communication skills

Digital literacy

Teamwork

Proactive attitude

Job description

Overview

About the Team: Based within Careers and Employability, the Early Career Graduate team works with recent graduates to help them improve their future employability and career prospects. Through our work we enable and empower graduates to reach the next stage in their career journey, no matter what point in their career cycle they are at. We also work with employers in the Greater Manchester area to help these organisations to recruit our recent graduates. Our work feeds into key strategic areas and is a chance to positively influence University wide graduate destination outcomes and data.

Role Overview

About the Role: As part of the Early Career Graduate team, this is a key role in maximising the early career outcomes of our graduates. You will act as the first point of contact for graduates from a wide variety of degree backgrounds who are seeking careers and employability support after university. Using your knowledge and experience in career coaching, you will enable our graduates to achieve their full potential, motivating and empowering these individuals to explore their possible employment or further study options. This is a full-time permanent role working 35 hours per week. The role offers hybrid working and is split between home and office working. Our office location is based at 6 Great Marlborough Street building in the centre of Manchester. Postcode M1 5AL. Easily commutable by public transport and located 200 yards from Oxford Road train station.

Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for graduates seeking careers and employability support after university.
• Use coaching experience to enable graduates to achieve their full potential and explore employment or further study options.
• Deliver one-to-one career appointments and group sessions, supported by strong active listening and communication skills.
• Support graduates with researching their options and navigating the labour market through strong digital literacy skills.
• Work within a small team to meet the needs of graduates and deliver university and regional projects.

About You / Qualifications

• Proactive and enthusiastic with the ability to work effectively in a small team.
• Positive and professional attitude to help the team meet graduate needs and deliver projects.
• Excellent active listening and communication skills for one-to-one appointments and group sessions.
• Strong digital literacy skills to support graduates in researching options and labour market navigation.

How to Apply

To apply for this role, please submit your CV and a tailored cover letter via our application portal. Please note that we will only consider applicants who have submitted both a CV and a covering letter. Covering letters should ideally be no longer than two pages in length.

For informal enquiries about the role, please contact Gemma Fairclough (Graduate Career Coach) via email on [e-mail].

Interview and Additional Details

Interviews for this role are likely to take place in-person on campus during week commencing Monday 13th October 2025.

Manchester Metropolitan University fosters an inclusive culture of belonging that promotes equity and celebrates diversity. We value a diverse workforce for the innovation and diversity of thought it brings and welcome applications from all local and international communities, including Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We support a range of flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and tailored schedules, which can be discussed with your line manager. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or in your role, please let us know so we can provide appropriate support.

Our commitment to inclusivity includes mentoring programmes, accessibility resources, and professional development opportunities to empower and support underrepresented groups.

Manchester Met is a Disability Confident Leader and, under this scheme, aims to offer an interview to disabled people who apply for the role and meet the essential criteria as listed in the attached Job Description for that vacancy. This vacancy is expected to attract a high volume of applications. Therefore, under the Disability Confident Scheme, only disabled people who apply under the scheme and best meet the essential criteria will be offered an interview.