Careers, Employability & Opportunity Recruitment

WORLD CHANGERS TOGETHER

Thank you for your interest in our roles in Careers, Employability & Opportunity, it’s an exciting time as our team is expanding.

The University of Glasgow is committed to empowering students to identify and achieve their career goals and realise their full potential.

Careers, Employability & Opportunity, which is part of the Student & Academic Services directorate, comprises 44 staff. Responsible for providing 40,000 students with equal access to careers development, employability and opportunities including international mobility in preparation to effectively compete in the global job market.

We take a leading role in supporting Learning & Teaching, Student Experience and International strategies as part of an institutional ecosystem of student education and support.

Following a recent restructure and new investment, we have brand new roles available which will make a significant contribution to the widening of support to students inside and outside of the curriculum.

Informal Discussions

For a confidential, informal discussion about the roles please contact: 

Employer Engagement roles:

Peer Career Support Team Manager and Student Professional Development role: 

Insights Analyst (Careers, Employability & Opportunity) role:

Opportunities

Please note, all of the below opportunities are fixed term initially until 31st July 2025, in the first instance

Employer Engagement Manager: £39,347 - £44,263

Please click here to view the full job specification and apply for this role

Working with the Head of Employer Engagement the post-holder will be tasked with actively managing on-going relationships with employers to strengthen student employability and increase graduate recruitment opportunities. The post holder will proactively identify and facilitate new connections with a wide, varied and diverse range of employers in-line with agreed departmental Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and targets, underpinned by institutional strategies.

Closing date: 5th March 2024

 

Senior Employer Engagement Coordinator: £32,332-£36,024

Please click here to view the full job specification and apply for this role

The postholder is responsible for the implementation and delivery of a suite of employer engagement opportunities, ensuring an excellent end to end experience for students, with an expanding employer portfolio in support of university strategies to improve student employability and experience.

Responsible for the day-to-day operational management of a wide range of external partners supporting the Employer Engagement team to meet agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and targets.

Closing date: 5th March 2024

 

Lead Event Manager: £39,347 - £44,263

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Responsible for the ongoing development and delivery of the Careers, Employability & Opportunity (CEO) events portfolio. The postholder will bring a creative approach to event planning and design to showcase recruitment opportunities and strengthen student employability through collaboration with colleagues across the service and proactively identifying event opportunities to build the events programme with a varied and diverse range of events. These will be aligned to departmental Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and targets, underpinned by institutional strategies.

Working with the Head of Employer Engagement this post will have specific remit for the delivery of a work readiness events programme to support a seamless transition for students and graduates into the professional world.

Closing date: 5th March 2024

Student Professional Development Consultant (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion): £39,347 - £44,263

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As a member of Student Professional Development Team in Careers, Employability & Opportunity, you will support the career planning and professional development of students (UG, PGT, PGR) and early-career graduates.

Data shows that students from widening participation backgrounds and those with disabilities may face additional barriers to pursuing or securing graduate level outcomes. This role will lead on focused work to understand how we can ensure our career development activities and opportunities are visible, inclusive and accessible to these cohorts.

You will make a significant contribution to the successful graduate outcome of our students by championing inclusive and accessible careers and employability activity and supporting colleagues to embed this into the student experience.

 

Closing date: 17th March 2024

 

Insights Analyst (Careers, Employability & Opportunity): £39,347 - £44,263

Please click here to view the full job specification and apply for this role

The Insights Analyst will support the work of the Careers Employability & Opportunity and Planning, Insight and Analytics teams at the University of Glasgow. The team sits at the heart of University Services and provides data and analysis to support decision-making at the highest level. The Insights Analyst will work in close collaboration with team members to deliver strategic insight and performance reports. The job holder will be responsible for a wide range of insight generation on (but not limited to) careers, employability and opportunity activity, working across existing data resources to help contextualise and provide insight, growing the use and application of the main Graduate Outcomes survey and Data / Analytics resources, and additionally providing analysis that show different Equality Diversity Inclusivity perspectives. Other areas of focus include Benchmarking, League Tables and Labour Market Scanning.

The post requires the holder to be comfortable extracting and analysing data, explaining patterns, developing analytic models and effectively communicating the stories found within data.

 

Closing date: 12th March 2024

 

Peer Career Support Team Manager: £39,347 - £44,263

Please click here to view the full job specification and apply for this role

The University of Glasgow is committed to empowering students to identify and achieve their career goals and realise their full potential. As a member of the Student Professional Development team within Careers, Employability & Opportunity, you will develop and manage a new team of Peer Career Supporter (PCS) part-time student staff, leading on the development of this new function.
 
As Peer Career Support Team Manager, you will lead on the training and ongoing development of the student staff. This will include designing a full training programme including working with third parties where necessary. You will also manage the team on an ongoing basis, coordinating their activities, liaising with colleagues within and beyond the service as necessary, and monitoring and managing performance and objectives.

 

Closing date: 17th March 2024

 

Terms and Conditions

As part of Team UofG you will be a member of a world changing, inclusive community, which values ambition, excellence, integrity and curiosity.
 
As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
  1. A warm welcoming and engaging organisational culture, where your talents are developed and nurtured, and success is celebrated and shared.
  2. An excellent employment package with generous terms and conditions including 41 days of leave for full time staff, pension , benefits and discount packages.
  3. A flexible approach to working.
  4. A commitment to support your health and wellbeing
We believe that we can only reach our full potential through the talents of all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Applications are particularly welcome from across our communities and in particular people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented within the University. Read more on how the University promotes and embeds all aspects of equality and diversity within our community here. 
 
We endorse the principles of Athena Swan and hold bronze, silver and gold awards across the University.
 
We are investing in our organisation, and we will invest in you too. Please visit our website https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ for more information.

Campus development plan

Our Vision 

Over the next 10 years, the major investment will expand our campus footprint by 25%, creating a new urban quarter with the University at the heart of a revitalised west end. This is the largest development since the creation of the original campus in 1870. 

This is a unique opportunity for a University to extend the boundaries of its historic core in a central city location. It will create: 

  • New learning and teaching facilities
  • Refurbishment and repurposing of existing iconic buildings for specialist uses
  • Identification and design of social spaces that support the student and community experience. 

The expansion of our Gilmorehill campus into the 14 acre, former Western Infirmary site will transform the West End of Glasgow. The Masterplan for the site will incorporate: 

  • New learning and teaching facilities supporting our students and making sure they get the best in modern teaching and learning styles and approaches
  • Creation of a Research Hub, housing large-scale multidisciplinary projects and incubator space for spin out collaborations with industry. This will encourage further innovation development
  • New public cycle and pedestrian routes and a new central square which will link Byres Road to the up-and-coming cultural quarter for the West End, with new links to Kelvingrove and the newly-refurbished Kelvin Hall
  • Refurbishment of five listed buildings: The Chapel, the Outpatients building, the Macgregor building, the Tennent Institute and Anderson College
  • Commercial opportunities, including a hotel, restaurant, bars and cafes
  • The state of the art Learning and Teaching Hub adjacent to the Boyd Orr building on University Avenue will be completed next year. 

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Living in Glasgow 

A UNESCO City of Music, a vibrant arts and culture scene, a food-lover’s delight, and a shopper’s paradise. Just some of the highlights of the ‘friendliest city in the world’. As well as that accolade by the Rough Guides poll, Glasgow has also been named a must visit destination by publications including the New York Times, The Guardian, and Wanderlust.

Music 

The city hosts an average of 130 music events a week catering for every taste; from rock to rap, and classical to country. Glasgow also has a world class club scene playing host to some of the world’s top DJs.

Shopping 

Outside of London’s West End, Glasgow is frequently voted the best place for shopping in the UK. A must-visit destination for any shop-a-holic, it houses high street chains, international designers, and independent retailers. The West End, home to the University of Glasgow, is bustling with vintage fashion, vinyl stores, and second-hand bookshops.

Arts and Culture 

Glasgow’s arts scene has gone from strength to strength, and is the base for five internationally renowned performing arts companies including the National Theatre of Scotland and Scottish Ballet. The city has several world-class museums, which are free to the public, and the city’s architecture is a work of art in itself. 

Food and drink 

You can be in Glasgow and taste the world with its many diverse restaurants, cafes, and bars. And if you’ve yet to sample the delights of haggis and whisky, Glasgow is the place to be.

The City and Beyond 

Glasgow has all the opportunities and excitement of a big city but its compact size means you can quickly travel from one vibrant district to the next. You could be relaxing in one of its many parks, before shopping in the quirky West End, and then dancing until the wee small hours in the Merchant City. 

And when you fancy getting out of the city you can reach the stunning Loch Lomond in just 30 minutes, climb one of our many breath-taking Munros, play golf at one of Scotland’s many world-class courses, visit one of our ancient castles, or go further North and search for Nessie! Scotland has also just been named the world’s most beautiful country by Rough Guides.

Relocating to Glasgow

Choosing to relocate to Glasgow is a big decision. There are numerous things to be considered, such as the costs of moving, the cost of living, and where exactly to relocate to. We have created two guides to aide you in the decision making process. 

Find out more on relocating to Glasgow at the below link:

WORLD CHANGERS TOGETHER

WORLD CHANGING GLASGOW 2025

Our outstanding disciplinary breadth and expertise has enabled us to make world-changing advances in fields as diverse as medicine, physics, linguistics, public policy and global development.

The key to our success is our talented staff and students pushing back at the boundaries of knowledge and understanding together.

Our World Changers Together strategy recognises the fundamental importance of a culture of open cooperation: not just as colleagues and mentors or students and teachers, but as a community of discovery that reaches beyond its walls and draws inspiration and strength from its connections and partnerships worldwide: excellence that's part of something bigger. The strategy is articulated across three themes:

COMMUNITY

  • People centred, globally engaged

CONNECTIVITY

  • Collaboratively minded, digitally enhanced

CHALLENGES

  • Solution focused, impact oriented
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It is the University of Glasgow’s mission to foster an inclusive climate, which ensures equality in our working, learning, research and teaching environment. We strongly endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, including a supportive and flexible working environment, with commitment from all levels of the organisation in promoting gender equity.

Our values

decorative icon representing valuesThe future holds innumerable challenges for our sector, our society, and our world. We will have to adapt and change what we do and what we offer if we are to navigate these successfully. Our strategy and approach may evolve as the landscape changes, but our values will remain constant: a fixed point of certainty in uncertain times.

We have identified our values in consultation and partnership with our staff and student community. Living and upholding these values will ensure that we remain true to the spirit of our community and ourselves:

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Ambition and Excellence

  • We strive for excellence through our work
  • We defend academic freedom globally
  • We recognise and celebrate shared success
  • We have an unrelenting focus on development
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Curiosity and Discovery

  • We innovate and solve problems together
  • We lead by influence and example
  • We engage with lifelong learning and personal development
  • We learn from our mistakes
Integrity and truth

Integrity and Truth

  • We uphold honesty, integrity and fairness
  • We share our work widely and generously
  • We do the right thing, not the easy thing - or we don’t do it
  • We take responsibility
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An Inclusive Community new

  • We are one Glasgow team, and we care for and respect one another
  • We advocate for diversity and believe in variety as a vital part of a healthy university
  • We champion education as an engine for social progress
  • We practise and advance sustainability