Job Description

About the role

This exciting role gives you the opportunity to make a real difference to the experience and future of our students. It gives you the ability to develop the strategy across the University for increasing student participation in work-related opportunities, in addition to increasing student uptake.

You will collaborate with a wide range of colleagues across the University, in an addition to external stakeholders, which gives you the flexibility to impact change and influence decision making, whilst ensuring our students get access to high quality and impactful work-related experience.

About you

With experience in managing work-related learning experiences, placements, internships or volunteering activities, you will have significant experience of managing staff and project teams delivering relevant activities. An understanding of employability in a higher education setting is key, alongside a motivation for providing the very best experience to our students.

With great communication skills, the ability to build relationships quickly and the ability to influence decision making, you will know, how to deliver results against deadlines in the most effective way possible. We are looking for someone who has creative ideas and is willing to adapt and change with our students expectations, behaviours and an ever-changing employment market.

Additional information

For informal enquiries, please contact Tom Ledgard, Head of Placements and Graduate Outcomes on

We anticipate that interviews will take place on 17 October 2023.

The University of Leicester has been changing the world, and changing people\'s lives, for 100 years. When you join us, you\'ll become part of a community of , which includes not only our staff and our current students but also thousands of Leicester graduates around the world.

As a diverse and forward-thinking employer, we embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do. That includes not just our core missions of teaching and research, but also our support for staff, students and our local community through our values of Inspiring, Impactful and Inclusive.

We\'re committed to the wellbeing of all our staff and to the sustainability of our environment, on our campus and beyond. We offer a competitive salary package, excellent pension scheme and a generous annual leave allowance, along with opportunities to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Full time, fixed term contract from 20 November 2023 for 9 months, or until the return of the postholder, whichever sooner (maternity cover).

\xc2\xa348,350 to \xc2\xa354,395 per annum (Grade 8)

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