Careers Consultant Campus

Job Posting Title :
Careers Consultant, Dubai

Grade and Salary:
Grade 7

FTE and working pattern:
Full Time

Organisation Name:
Registry and Student

Services About our School/Directorate and Team:

The Global Registry and Academic Support Directoratesupportsourstudentsandstaff  acrossthe full student life-cyclefromenrolmenttograduation.

The Directorate hasresponsibilityasthedefinitiverecord-keeperofallstudent

information, programme and course details, as well as leading services that help students settle andstay at the University. This includes providing professional help and advice through a range ofsupportandwellbeingservices.

The Directorate supports academic and professional services staff across the University in a numberof areas, including: academic, institutional and student related Regulations and Policies, and global,nationalandinstitutional qualitymatters.

Itdeliverstheseservicesthroughfive Divisions, eachmanagedbya

Global

Head,andtwo Headsof Campus Registry and Student Services :

Online Students

Academic Operations

Academic Quality

Academic Secretariat,Regulation and Policy

• Student Service Centre: A single point of access for students that delivers aconsistent student experience, including face-to-face and virtual services (eg, enrolment,student account payments,student records, etc.)
• Student Records:
  Responsible for the management of back-office functions tosupport the Student Service Centre, acts as the definitive record-keeper of the student record,andmanagesstandard/consistentprocessesfor all student transactions(eg,transfer,Temporary Suspensionof Studies ,etc.).
• Wellbeing:
  
  Providesarangeofservices to supportthestudent journey including support for people of determination, mental health, and retentionactivities.
• Careers Service:
  Delivers career and employability advice to studentsandrecentalumni,workingcloselywithlocalandglobal employers,andwith Heriot-Watt’sSchoolssupportingtheemployabilitystrands.
• Student Engagement:
  Supports the Student Council, and coordinates activities andevents for students to facilitate their extra-curricular development and build community.

The Careers Service aims to assist Heriot-Watt University students andgraduates to make informed career choices by providing a professional, high-quality career guidance and information service. We work closely with employers and academic Schools to support students by developing the skills they need to maximise their employability. The Careers Service is dynamic, forward-looking and proactive in helping the University enhance theemployability of our students.

They work with a wide range of organisations across all businesssectors to ensure that students and graduates can access a wealth of work experience, internships and graduateopportunities tosupporttheir readinessforlifeoncethey havecompletedtheirstudies.

The focus of this role is to contribute to the implementation of the University’s strategic aims by providing a range of professional career education and guidance services to client groups ofundergraduate and postgraduate students, and graduates to enhance their employability. The successful candidate will deliver the service alongside other Careers Consultants and work in close collaboration with senior school staff, academic colleagues, , the Employer Liaison Coordinator, alumni team and employers to support students to develop their career potential.

They will proactively develop the service to meet client needs linking closely with other campuses to ensure parity and contribute to the positive impact of the service at the School and Universitylevel.

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