Work Related Learning Officer

The role holder will work directly with the Work Related Learning Manager for the BEAMS faculty cluster (Built Environment, Engineering, Maths & Physical Sciences) to provide practical activities for the students to enhance their careers education and prepare them for the world of work. The role holder is expected to support the Manager in identifying what provision is required within the faculties, to complement existing student support.

The role holder will engage with relevant academic staff, recruiters, alumni and other professional bodies, to run activities for undergraduate and postgraduate taught students across the faculties. Such activities could include industry forums, career taster or skills workshops, hackathons, challenges, work-shadowing opportunities and collaborative projects with other UCL departments. Such engagement will involve developing relationships with existing employer and alumni contacts but will also involve proactively researching the market and establishing new industry connections.

The role holder will be expected to work with the Manager to set up the annual programme of work-related learning and together continuously develop the provision based on feedback from employers, alumni, academic staff and students. The role holder will also support the Manager in the use of data on student demographics and careers readiness to develop activities to support students from a diverse range of needs and/or backgrounds as appropriate and in line with the strategy of the BEAMS faculties.

The role holder will be expected to encourage student engagement through developing marketing materials and carrying out promotional activities. Throughout their work, the role holder will work closely with other members of the BEAMS Careers team to coordinate delivery of specific faculty and departmental activities. The role holder will also liaise with the Work-related Learning Officers in the other faculties, as well as colleagues within UCL Careers in order to share best practice and ensure consistency of standard across UCL.

• Experience of project management and delivering against ambitious/demanding targets
• Experience of setting up work-related learning programmes or activities, or managing a programme of events or training activities
• Ability to build strong relationships both proactively and reactively with a range of different stakeholders, including external partners
• Excellent communication skills with experience of communicating with a range of audiences in person and online
• Ability to persuade and influence relevant stakeholders
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to multi-task, prioritise own workload, work to deadlines, and remain calm under pressure
• Highly motivated with a resilient and inclusive, solutions focused attitude
• Ability to carry out qualitative and quantitative research to evaluate own programme and benchmark across the HE sector
• Good knowledge of IT (including Microsoft Office) and of event / database management software

UCL is at an interesting point in its history. We have expanded rapidly, and the new strategic planning process is focussed on building on achievements and opportunities from growth while also addressing some of the challenges.

The UCL Strategic Plan  outlines a vision for a 'futures focussed' UCL education that is ambitious and distinctive. It prompts us to view UCL education and student experience through the lens of current and future students to ensure we are able to meet their needs and expectations. It also recognises that 'the future' is not a given. Instead, different futures are there to be influenced and shaped by UCL students, staff and graduates through our teaching and research.

One of the aims of the Strategic Plan is to bring together teaching, assessment and employability in order to support student futures and to that end, the new 'UCL Higher Education Development & Support Institute' (HEDS) has been established. HEDS brings together UCL Arena (UCL's Centre for Research-based Education) and UCL Careers Service. HEDS sits within the Office of the Vice Provost (Education & Student Experience) (VPESE).

Please review the job description carefully, paying particular attention to the Essential and Desirable criteria, and ensure these are covered in your application.

What we offer As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan