Placements Officer

Concerning the position:

We’re on the lookout for a motivated particular person to hitch our full of life Placements Crew within the School of Engineering and Design. Your focus will likely be supporting engineering college students take a 12-month placement as a part of their diploma. 

You’ll play an important position in sustaining robust skilled relationships with present placement suppliers in an trade going through position while additionally proactively sourcing and creating alternatives to generate new placements. You’ll act as a degree of contact for undergraduate college students, educational employees and employers, coping with enquiries and offering steerage. A serious a part of the position is to supply employability help to college students on a one to at least one foundation and good written English abilities are important. As well as, you may be required to ship abilities workshops and talks and should be a assured, participating presenter to speak to the scholar viewers.

That is an thrilling position supporting hard-working college students firstly of their careers. 

It is a full time, mounted time period place offering cowl for maternity go away. The best begin date for this position is March 2024, however we are able to supply some flexibility on this. The contract finish date is fifteenth September 2024.

The Placements Crew are at the moment enterprise a mix of 40% distant and 60% on campus work and are a pupil going through staff. We’re a supportive staff of 5 Placement Officers, one Placement Supervisor and one Placement Administrator with the staff a combination of full-time and part-time employees. We profit from being embedded throughout the School and collaborating with educational colleagues and being a part of the School Skilled Providers staff but in addition keep robust hyperlinks with the central careers service and different School Placement groups.

For a casual dialog in regards to the position please contact the Head of Placements and Partnerships, Vicky Hill on [email protected] or 01225 383467. 

About you:

With glorious organisational abilities, you’ll show an excellent use of initiative and have the ability to multi-task and prioritise a excessive workload. Consideration to element and good administrative report holding are important. We work collectively as a staff to attain total outcomes and you will want to be an excellent teammate. An curiosity in studying about and dealing with engineering topic areas and industries can be helpful.

For the complete particular person specification, please see the Job Description hooked up under.

You should have the attributes to become a form and culturally staff participant who fosters an surroundings the place each particular person is valued and revered, no matter their background or id. You’ll proactively search out various views, recognizing the richness and creativity this brings to decision-making and problem-solving.

You’ll stay optimistic within the face of challenges, seeing them as alternatives for progress and innovation. You’ll perceive that change is inevitable and crucial, actively encouraging these round you to adapt and evolve. By selling a tradition of openness and inclusivity, coupled with a willingness to pay attention in addition to a readiness to embrace change, you’ll contribute profoundly to a dynamic and empowered staff that may thrive in at the moment’s quickly altering world.

Additional data:

Study extra about our School and its programmes right here:

School of Engineering & Design (tub.ac.uk)  

Recruit engineering college students for skilled placements (tub.ac.uk)  

Enhance your employability with an engineering placement yr (tub.ac.uk)

What we are able to give you:

We intention to be an inclusive college, the place distinction is widely known, revered and inspired. We’ve a wonderful worldwide status with employees from over 60 totally different nations and have made a optimistic dedication in direction of gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award . We actually imagine that variety of expertise, views, and backgrounds will result in a greater surroundings for our workers and college students, so we encourage purposes from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, notably from under-represented teams, and worth the optimistic influence that can have on our groups. 

We’re very proud to be an autism pleasant college and are an accredited Incapacity Assured Chief; dedicated to constructing incapacity confidence and supporting disabled employees .

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Additional particulars:

We’re consistently searching for to scale back the unconscious bias that enters any evaluation course of, with the purpose of making an inclusive and equal evaluation course of. To help this, private particulars will likely be faraway from software kinds on the preliminary shortlisting stage.