Careers Consultant

If you’re in search of a brand new alternative, with potential for development and are obsessed with supporting a various and proficient pupil base to safe a graduate position, this can be a nice time to contemplate becoming a member of our Careers+ service at Birmingham Metropolis College. Following the event of the College Employability Technique, BCU is investing £2,000,000 in extra assets and staffing to assist our college students in gaining the talents and expertise to develop profitable future careers. The College technique states: “We should make sure that our graduates enter their future careers prepared to attain their potential.”

We’re recruiting a professional Careers Consultants with in depth and up to date expertise of working in Increased Schooling with undergraduate college students, postgraduate college students, and graduates.  You may be becoming a member of the Careers+ service with a spotlight upon working with college students from the College Computing, Engineering and Constructed Atmosphere (CEBE), though the schools you’re employed with could change time beyond regulation relying upon enterprise want.  

As a Careers Advisor, you’ll work with house and worldwide college students delivering group classes and one-to-one appointments offering careers info, recommendation, and steerage to allow them to make knowledgeable profession selections and develop applicable profession methods to compete within the job market. Additionally, you will present proactive consultancy companies to the college and repair departments making ready college students for the world of labor by way of the event and supply of progressive profession administration and employability abilities initiatives.  

You may be expert in constructing profitable skilled relationships; growing, delivering, and measuring the influence of coaching programmes and initiatives; with expertise of utilizing expertise to boost and scale up service supply.  This position will go well with a careers steerage skilled who understands the profession aspirations of scholars learning within the college.

As a key member of a Careers+ staff you’ll work collaboratively together with your Careers+ colleagues and school groups to attain one of the best outcomes for college students. The posts could contain line managing and supervising workers and expertise on this space is fascinating.

We’re an award profitable, progressive, and pleasant staff, with massive ambitions to enhance outcomes for our various vary of scholars by way of elevated entry to placements, work expertise and graduate alternatives, in addition to prime quality employability and careers steerage assist. 

Birmingham Metropolis College is a big and dynamic Establishment positioned within the coronary heart of the UK’s second metropolis, house to a wealthy and various vary of communities. Now we have the pleasure to serve this wealthy cultural combine, and we’re eager to be sure that that is additionally mirrored in our broader college group. 

We’re additionally formed by the heritage of our metropolis. Birmingham is house to a wealthy and various vary of communities. Our college students mirror this wealthy cultural combine, and we’re persevering with to work to be sure that that is additionally mirrored in our broader college group.

Come and be a part of a college that’s really remodeling – there has by no means been a greater time to affix us. For additional info please electronic mail [email protected]

The appointed candidate will usually be employed by way of our subsidiary firm BCU Assist Companies Restricted, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Birmingham Metropolis College. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who want to enter the LGPS scheme will probably be in a position to take action, and will probably be employed by Birmingham Metropolis College immediately.

OUR VISION

Birmingham Metropolis College is rising in high quality and standing, with an educational STEAM agenda on the coronary heart of our ambitions. We’re remodeling the lives of scholars and their communities, and wish excellent individuals to affix us in taking us on the following stage of our thrilling journey.  

Our college students be taught by way of doing. They’re empowered all through their academic journey, attaining vital academic acquire and private transformation.  

There has by no means been a greater time to affix us. Come and be a part of the following thrilling stage of our journey.

ABOUT BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY

On the coronary heart of our 2025 Technique is our mission is to allow our college students to rework their lives and to attain their potential. Via our schooling and analysis, and the roles our graduates go on to play on this planet, we not solely assist people to rework their lives, however we additionally play a component in remodeling society.

Positioned within the centre of the UK’s second metropolis, we’re a college with a protracted heritage of innovation and of constructing, relationship again to our origins in 1843 after we had been based because the Birmingham Authorities College of Design.  

Our heritage of constructing by way of innovation and its software by way of data alternate, and of artistic analysis and apply, as we speak finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our analysis and enterprise, and in our dedication to challenge-based studying. Working throughout disciplines, and delivering impactful analysis and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is on the coronary heart of the persevering with transformation of our educational portfolio. 

OUR STAFF COMMUNITY 

Birmingham is house to a wealthy and various vary of communities.  Our college students mirror this wealthy cultural combine, and we’re persevering with to work to be sure that that is additionally mirrored in our broader college group. 

Birmingham Metropolis College values the standard and variety of our workers. Our workers and pupil group is outlined by our core values, which define who we’re as a College and the way we work with one another. Our core values are we create alternative, we expect in a different way, and we construct group. 

We’re dedicated to equality, range and inclusion, constantly reviewing and bettering our insurance policies, practices, and procedures to make sure that we’re selling these in all points of our operations. We imagine that by working collectively, combining our many alternative backgrounds and life experiences, we are going to empower one another to succeed in our full potential. 

We maintain an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our dedication to bettering employment practices for the development of gender equality.

Our College is positioned in one of the crucial culturally wealthy and various Cities within the UK, and it’s our ambition to be the College for Birmingham and the encompassing area. The occasions of 2020 have highlighted the stark inequalities that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities face and we’re dedicated to eradicating the institutional obstacles that our workers and college students face and enhance the illustration, development and success of workers and college students from all backgrounds inside increased schooling.  To display this, we’ve got signed as much as the Race Equality Constitution to point out our dedication.

Birmingham Metropolis College has been recognised for its progress on LGBT+ equality with a Gold award within the Stonewall Index and have entered the Prime 100 Employers 2023 for LGBT+ inclusion. In the meantime, we’re Incapacity Assured (Dedicated) and are on an thrilling journey to advance our College to progress by way of the Incapacity Assured scheme.

We’re additionally a Aware Employer, which suggests we’re dedicated to supporting the psychological well being and well-being of our workers, and we’ve got additionally signed as much as the Psychological Well being Constitution led by pupil psychological well being charity Pupil Minds.   Moreover, we’re signed as much as The Technician Dedication – a college and analysis establishment initiative supported by the Science Council and Gatsby Basis – aiming to make sure visibility, recognition, profession improvement and sustainability for technicians working in increased schooling and analysis.

WORKING AND LIVING IN BIRMINGHAM

The youngest metropolis in Europe with under-25s accounting for practically 40% of the inhabitants, Birmingham is a metropolis filled with vitality and enthusiasm and is a good place to dwell and work.

Primarily based within the coronary heart of England, town is definitely accessible by highway, rail and air. Birmingham New Road station has just lately undergone main redevelopment, whereas town is on the coronary heart of the high-speed rail community, HS2.  HS2 will present new fast rail journey connecting Birmingham Metropolis Centre to London and the remainder of the community from the brand new Curzon Road Station – adjoining to Birmingham Metropolis College’s Metropolis Centre Campus – and will probably be one of the crucial environmentally pleasant stations on this planet.

The town’s urge for food for development is boundless, and it has been championing innovation because the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, mirrored in Birmingham Metropolis College’s new STEAMhouse constructing which opened in October 2022 and is house to an inter-disciplinary group of entrepreneurs, companies, educational researchers, and college students providing a wealth of assist to firms of all sizes to spice up progress by way of innovation to handle business and societal challenges.

Birmingham is brimming with nice theatres, museums, the world-famous Birmingham Metropolis College Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, in addition to lovely historic buildings and the enduring Library of Birmingham. It additionally has superb live performance and sporting venues together with Edgbaston Cricket floor, which Birmingham Metropolis College has a long-standing partnership with.  It’s also house to the Alexander Stadium, which is the beautiful new house for Birmingham Metropolis College’s sport programs.  The Stadium was one of many primary occasion areas for the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games in 2022, which noticed the eyes of the world on town, and Birmingham Metropolis College workers and college students performed pivotal roles – together with designing the official medals for profitable athletes. 

Birmingham’s vibrant eating scene provides one thing for all tastes, together with Michelin star eating places, Spiceal Road on the Bullring, the Chinese language Quarter, and the well-known Balti Triangle.

The town additionally supplies an ideal place to buy, being house the Bullring and Grand Central, the luxurious Mailbox Birmingham and the world-famous house of British bling – the Jewelry Quarter, which is house to Birmingham Metropolis College’s College of Jewelry.

From Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and the attractive arcades and independents, to town’s historic markets in Digbeth, the retailers in Birmingham supply a plethora of selection.

BCU Values underpin how we work in attaining the ambitions set out in our Technique and Priorities, and are the ideas that unite the best way we work collectively and for our college students.