Student Development Coach

University of Leeds; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Bank holidays (42 days a year)

On-site gym access

Personal development courses

On-site childcare

Shopping discounts

Travel schemes

Job summary

University of Leeds is recruiting a Student Success and Engagement role based on campus with hybrid/flexible arrangements. You will partner with schools, Learning Development Team and Academic Personal Tutors to support students, co-create development plans, and help enhance belonging and self-efficacy across the student journey.

You will engage face-to-face with students throughout the year, identify risk groups, and translate insights into actionable improvements to student experience and

Job description

This role will be based on the university campus with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

Do you want to help students on their own individual journey of success during their time at Leeds? Can you help our students feel they belong and matter at Leeds?

The role holder will be working with a diverse range of students and a wide array of staff stakeholders across the institution. With students, they will be a local point of contact and guide, helping students to reflect on their student journey and how they, as individuals, feel they wish to develop as they progress through their University experience and within their academic school. Working independently, the role holder will identify groups and areas of risk in day-to-day processes from a student success perspective and develop approaches/recommendations to mitigate these; working with schools to test and implement any recommendations.

Key outcomes for this role will be helping to grow students’ sense of belonging and self-efficacy through:

• face-to-face work with students throughout the year, as a welcoming and supportive member of staff in a new student-facing position helping generate belonging in schools (particularly for students from under-represented groups);
• working with students to co-create clear development plans designed to facilitate academic and personal growth.
• Attending relevant school committees and recommending improvements to student/staff engagement relevant to academic study or to broader success provision

The role will be student centred, helping to ensure that our students have the fullest and most enriching experience of Leeds.

This role will be pivotal in assisting students to navigate the multitude of opportunities available to them at University. This will involve connecting students with the opportunities to explore and monitoring their progress against their development plan. It will therefore be important to work with students and services to ensure follow-through on the opportunities agreed within the development plan, such as academic skills workshops.

There is a data-driven element to this role which will help in the facilitation of personalised learning; within their school the role holder will lead the development and implementation of prioritisation matrix to proactively identify students who may benefit the most from creating action plans. Collaborating with senior stakeholders within schools and Educational Engagement, the role holder will develop an approach which balances School and Access and Student Success Strategic priorities.

This work will acknowledge the perspectives and lived experiences of each student to shape their own learning journey. The services provided through this role will be available to all students but will prioritise those who can benefit the most.

The post is also intended to support and complement the work of Academic Personal Tutors (APTs), working with students to help implement any recommendations made by APTs and ensuring that Student Development Plans are complementary. The role is an important way to develop trusting, caring, supporting relationships between staff and students, and is intended to work in concert with roles such as Academic Personal Tutors or Learning Advisors.

The role will partner closely with Learning Advisors based in the Learning Development Team (LDT); maintaining a knowledge base of opportunities on offer through the LDT and ensuring that students connect with these. In addition, the role will be able to liaise with the LDT to identify priority areas for student development within academic schools, providing local knowledge that can help Learning Advisors to tailor provision to the schools.

In order to provide informed advice, the role-holder will need to gain a familiarity with available pastoral support; with skills development practice both on School programmes of study (this could include awareness of the Leeds Capabilities Framework) and with academic, digital and professional skills support offered through existing routes outside of schools (such as the Learning Development Team’s Skills@Library service).

Please note that due to Home Office visa requirements, this role may only be suitable for first-time Skilled Worker visa applicants if they are eligible for salary concessions. For more information please visit:www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

What we offer in return

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) - That’s 42 days a year!
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!