Director of Career Services

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Company: Imperial College London

Department: Office of the Vice-Provost (Education), Student Services

Salary: Competitive salary and excellent benefits

Hours: Full Time

Contract type: Permanent

Type / Role: Professional or Managerial

Phone: +44-113 1534759

Fax: +44-1506 8641540

E-mail: N\A

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South Kensington campus

Are you a highly skilled University Careers / Graduate Recruitment leader who thrives when building long lasting relationships that have shaped the future of students and have had a significant impact within and outside of the University space? If so, we may just have the perfect career opportunity for you.

Imperial College’s Career Service is in search of a Director to lead and develop their talented team to deliver a world-class service. This exciting career opportunity will see you work across the breadth of the College and beyond, engaging recruiters, prospective recruiters, students and alumni to ensure that the employability prospects of Imperial College graduates remain amongst the strongest nationally and globally.

You will work closely with the Director of Student Services to ensure that the Careers Service is aligned to the College’s broader strategic aims and that the service is built to operate effectively in a changing world of student employability. To do this successfully, you will bring to the role experience of leading strategy development and implementation, an ability to quickly build highly effective working relationship and sophisticated leadership and staff development skills. You will have strong analytical skills and a track record of ‘joining the dots’; using data to underpin and drive strategic decisions and encouraging your team to do the same.

To be successful in this high visibility position, you will draw on experience gained in roles such as: Director of Careers, Deputy Director of Careers, Head of Careers, Head of Employability, Assistant Head of Careers Service, Deputy Head of Careers Service, Director of Employability, Head of Employability or similar.

Overarching responsibilities will include:

  • Providing vision, coaching, leadership and direction for the Careers Service team, so that Imperial College’s student employability and outcomes are secured effectively, and a highly collaborative team environment in maintained and developed.
  • Planning, leading, developing and implementing strategies for the delivery of a well organised and coherent information, advice and guidance service, which provides a high quality of service for students, academic departments and recruiters – raising the bar at every opportunity.
  • Being proactive and entrepreneurial in the generation of new income from external sources and ensuring effective financial management of the Careers Service; monitoring and reviewing relationships with external organisations and suppliers, negotiating contracts and ensuring that the College secures value for money.

This opportunity would be ideally suited to an individual with a clear vision and skillset with which to develop and deliver cohesive service enhancements to the College’s Careers Service.

Imperial Expectations guide the behaviour of all our staff.

Committed to equality and valuing diversity. We are also an Athena SWAN Silver Award winner, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident and are working in partnership with GIRES to promote respect for trans people.

Closing date: Friday 15 September (midnight)

Further details about the opportunity and application process are on the job section of the ICL website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/job-applicants/ (select “Job Search” then enter the job title or vacancy reference HRB201742LT into “Keywords”). Our preferred method of application is online. Please complete and upload relevant application form as directed.

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