Job Description
Leeds is one of the country’s fastest growing city regions with major employers, new business and significant company relocations generating a vibrant student and graduate labour market.
Leeds Beckett University is a recognised anchor institution in the city, providing a major source of student and graduate talent to the city’s employers.
The Business Engagement was established to bring together our student and graduate employability offer, within an externally facing unit to ensure a strategically impactful, employer informed careers education provision. The service encompasses both Beckett Careers and Degree Apprenticeships team and provides external organisations a wealth of opportunities to engage with our student and graduate talent. A key component of Beckett Careers, is to offer students who study with us, a diverse range of employer led placements and experiential learning opportunities.
This is an exciting opportunity to manage our School focused Experiential Learning team to enable the provision of high-quality support and ensure timely and quality assured delivery of experiential learning/ placement opportunities and education across all disciplines. The successful candidate will support our academic schools to meet their employability objectives through the co-ordination and management of placement years, modular experiential learning activities and use a data informed approach to lead a team to meet internal and external KPIs.
A key component of this role is stakeholder management, with placement providers and other external organisations providing high quality experiential learning opportunities for students alongside internal professional service staff and academic schools.
Applications are invited from individuals with a strong record of related work in Higher Education, careers & employability, employer engagement, recruitment and/or relevant industry experience.
For further information, or an informal discussion please contact the Student Opportunity and Experiential Learning Manager Laura Bielby on l.bielby@leedsbeckett.ac.uk .
Closing date Thursday 27th February 2025 (2359)
Interview date Thursday 20th March 2025 (this may be subject to change)
Working here means you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits including our generous pension schemes, excellent holiday entitlements, flexible working, reduced study fees, subsidised fitness facilities and a lot more.
We welcome applications from all individuals and particularly from black and global majority candidates as members of these groups are currently under-represented at this level of post. All appointments will be based on merit.
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