Employment Adviser (EHA1598-1120)

Make a difference, every day, to the lives of our students.

About You

With excellent interpersonal and communication skills you will have an understanding and awareness of diversity issues and be committed to widening access, providing opportunities to those who would otherwise face additional barriers. You will have experience of working in higher education and widening participation with evidence of successful motivational skills to engage students. 

You will be able to collate data and produce statistical reports in a range of formats. As well as this, you will have excellent marketing skills, including social media with the ability to increase student engagement. You will be able to work independently but also be a strong team player who can make a significant contribution to the Careers team.

To be successful you will have a desire to work within a University Careers team, and will proactively contribute to improving students’ employability experiences, opportunities and graduate outcomes.

About the Role

In this role you will make a difference, providing careers support to students who may face additional barriers to accessing employability opportunities. 

You will join an innovative Careers team whose focus is on providing the best careers support for our students and graduates, developing employability skills and creating a rang of exciting careers opportunities.

Rewards/Benefits

You will benefit from 23 days annual leave plus 13 bank holiday and University closure days per annum. We aim to provide our staff with a positive work life balance and have a range of schemes in place to support this. Your continued professional development is as important to us as it is to you and we demonstrate this through our investment in your CPD activity. 

You will be automatically enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme and have access to our staff benefits platform, which provides you with discounts across the high street to help you save money on your everyday spending such as supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more. We also offer discounted membership to our state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities.

About Us

Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education. 

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact: Jacqui Howe, Head of Careers at Jacqui.Howe@edgehill.ac.uk  

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Closing Date: 24 Nov 2020
Category: Support