Make a difference, every day, to the lives of our students.
About You
You will have experience of successfully providing advice and guidance to employers on matters related to recruitment and selection activities, along with being able to successfully engage with employers and develop new client relationships, which includes the ability to identify appropriate employment opportunities for students and graduates. Above all, your ability to demonstrate excellent interpersonal and networking skills will ensure that you quickly establish yourself as a key member of our friendly and supportive team.
About the Role
Working within Careers, you will work with organisations, departments and faculties, successfully organising and delivering high profile employer related events, which engage the student community, supports the delivery of curricular and non-curricular employability learning, and increases engagement between the business, community and the University.
Developing highly effective business relationships with employers, you will seek out new contacts and create, monitor and develop relationships, to provide relevant opportunities for students and graduates.
Using your own initiative and expertise to provide solutions to everyday challenges, you will undertake a wide range of employer liaison activities. Working closely with colleagues in Careers and across all the Faculties, you will identify opportunities for departments, which will assist the University to achieve its employability objectives.
Rewards/Benefits
We want you to feel happy when you come to work and proud when you go home.
From the moment you join us you have the opportunity to enhance your skills. We offer a range of specialist development sessions or courses and an award-winning staff health & wellbeing programme (HR Excellence Awards 2017). This means as well as opportunities to attend interactive sessions like ‘Presenting with Impact’ or ‘Preparing for Your Future’ you are able to have a lunchtime stroll across our beautiful campus, benefit from discounted membership to our state of the art sport and leisure facilities and so much more.
This is just a taste of what we are able to offer you at Edge Hill University.
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: Paul Ledsham, Employer Liaison Manager at paul.ledsham@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: 26 Mar 2019
Category: Support
