Graduate Progression Communications and Outreach Coordinator

Leeds Beckett University; Leeds; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Leeds Beckett University is seeking a Graduate Progression Communications & Outreach Coordinator to enhance the development of a graduate progression communications plan. The role involves data analysis, fostering graduate engagement, and improving employability-related communications, essential for the success of their graduate community.

Benefits

Generous pension schemes

Excellent holiday entitlements

Flexible working

Reduced study fees

Subsidised fitness facilities

Qualifications

• Experience in creating content for multiple platforms.
• Proven history of driving engagement through data-informed approaches.

Responsibilities

• Sourcing and presenting data insights to inform understanding of graduate population.
• Maintaining contact with graduates through various communication methods.
• Improving engagement in graduate support initiatives and online platforms.

Skills

Data analysis

Content creation

Communication

Job description

Job Description

This is a fixed term secondment cover position (until approximately end of April / early May).

The Graduate Progression Communications & Outreach Coordinator sits within the Graduate Progression team of our Business Engagement Service. This team are focused on improving graduate outcomes and developing a comprehensive careers support offer for our graduate community.

The post holder will use their expertise to enhance the ongoing development of a graduate progression communications plan and targeted graduate outreach activities. The successful candidate will also help to guide the coordination of employability related communications across the wider Beckett Careers team. The post holder will source, use and analyse data and insight to inform decisions and create content across multiple platforms that is attractive to different cohorts of graduates, current students, employers, and other stakeholders.

The post holder will play an integral role in supporting with

• Sourcing and presenting data insights to better inform our understanding of our graduate population.
• Maintaining contact with graduates through a variety of communications methods.
• Understanding graduate destinations and improving response rates to the Graduate Outcomes Survey.
• Improving engagement in graduate support initiatives, online platforms, and social media channels.
• Providing additional mechanisms for employers to connect with our graduate community for the purposes of recruitment.
  
  

A strong communicator, with an attention to detail, the successful candidate will have experience in creating content for multiple platforms and possess a proven history of driving engagement through adopting a data informed approach.

The Business Engagement Service was established to bring together our student and graduate employability offer, within an externally facing unit to ensure a strategically impactful, employer informed careers education provision.

You’ll be part of a team culture that encourages an agile approach, embraces innovation and empowers colleagues to showcase their expertise, guided by the strategic goals of the team and the university. If you’re excited by the prospect of influencing futures in a role that is crucial to our team, then it would be great to hear from you.

Would you like to chat further about the opportunity? To arrange an informal discussion about this post, please contact Nyree Hardie, (Interim Graduate Progression Manager) on [e-mail] .

Closing date Monday 23rd June 2025.

Interviews are expected to take place on Thursday 3rd July (this may be subject to change)

Please note that you will not be able to edit or submit a part-completed application form after the closing date.

Working here means you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits including our generous pension schemes, excellent holiday entitlements, flexible working, reduced study fees, subsidised fitness facilities and a lot more.

We welcome applications from all individuals and particularly from black and minority ethnic candidates as members of these groups are currently under-represented at this level of post. All appointments will be based on merit.

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