Careers Consultant

About us:

King’s Careers and Employability is a team of 45 specialist staff working with key stakeholders to support students, graduates and researchers to achieve future success.

About the role:

This is an opportunity for candidates with significant experience of the legal sector or as a HE careers consultant with legal careers knowledge law to work with the Dickson Poon School of Law to support students and graduates in their development of career management skills. This could be through in person or online workshops and lectures, one to one coaching appointments or designing digital resources. You’ll work with home and international clients studying a range of legally focused programmes and you should be able to show a knowledge of international student needs.

You will need specific knowledge of the recruitment trends for both graduates from a first degree and postgraduates with experience.

You must have evidence of building lasting relationships with senior stakeholders as you will develop links with a range of legal employers as well as becoming a key contributor in a highly regarded academic department.

You’ll be skilled at building rapport with a wide range of people and wish to utilise your excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills to deliver a high-quality service.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Higher Education degree
2. Substantive work experience in the legal sector in a professional graduate-level role OR work as a Level 7 qualified careers consultant sufficient to have a sound knowledge and provide direct experience of career management and career development issues relevant to law students and graduates.
3. Evidence of motivation to work supporting Higher Education students or graduates to achieve professional success.
4. Ability to establish, maintain and proactively develop effective professional relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. This includes engaging confidently with senior academic staff and strategic partners to deliver initiatives aligned with institutional objectives.
5. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport quickly and use effective coaching and questioning techniques. The demonstrable ability to engage small and large audiences.
6. Ability to interpret qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate, evidence and improve the impact of employability activities. Demonstrable ability to produce clear evaluative reports and evidence-based recommendations to support service development.
7. Proven ability to initiate and deliver high-impact projects while effectively managing a daily workload, monitoring progress against objectives and responding flexibly to changing institutional priorities and stakeholder needs.
8. Knowledge of how digital technologies and online careers platforms can be used to enhance student career planning, employability development and service engagement within a Higher Education careers context.

Interviews are scheduled for Monday 6th July.