Year Placement Officer (REDEPLOYEE APPLICANTS ONLY)

City St George's, University of London; Greater London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

City St George's, University of London is seeking a Year Placements Officer to join the Careers and Employability Directorate. You will support undergraduate students to secure and thrive on year placements, promoting opportunities, delivering workshops, and advising on applications and compliance.

Working with academic and professional services colleagues, you will maintain placement records, engage with employers, monitor student progress, and help deliver a consistently high-quality service

Qualifications

• Experience delivering advice and guidance to diverse stakeholders.
• Strong communication, organisation and relationship-building skills.
• Knowledge of the UK student and graduate labour market.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and use data to inform improvements.
• Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Promote placement opportunities and deliver workshops.
• Provide advice, guidance and admin support throughout placement lifecycle.
• Engage with employers to source opportunities and monitor student progress.
• Maintain placement records and ensure a high-quality service.
• Collaborate with academic and professional services colleagues to enhance student experience.

Skills

Advice & guidance

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Student records system

Job description

frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.The Year Placements Officer will join the Careers and Employability Directorate at City St George's, University of London, supporting undergraduate students to secure and thrive upon year placements. Working within the newly established Year Placement team, you will help deliver a consistently high-quality service to eligible students across the University, enabling them to understand the opportunity of doing a year placement, produce excellent applications to secure placements and maximise their experience on placement.You will provide advice, guidance and administrative support throughout the year placement lifecycle. This includes promoting placement opportunities, delivering workshops and events, supporting students with applications and compliance processes, maintaining placement records, engaging with employers and monitoring student progress on placement. You will work collaboratively with academic and professional services colleagues to ensure an excellent student experience.You will have experience delivering advice and guidance to diverse stakeholders, together with strong communication, organisation and relationship-building skills. Knowledge of the UK student and graduate labour market is essential. You will be confident managing competing priorities, using data to inform service improvements, and working collaboratively to support student success. A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion is essential.

Additional InformationClosing date for applications: 27 September 2026 at 11:59pmInterviews are scheduled to take place from 19th October 2026The selection process will involve an interview. Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage. City St George's offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development. City St George's, University of London is committed to promoting

equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors. We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. City St George's operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

The University of business, practice and the professionsFull timePosting Date: 2026-09-18

Please note: This role is only open to redeployee applicants at City St George's. Applications from individuals who are not redeployee applicants will not be considered at this time.

City St George's, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George's, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.Our research is engaged, at the