Careers Service Assistant

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

UoE2 £ £12.13 per hour, plus 18.1% annual leave allowance

Careers Service/Student Services/University Secretary's Group

Guaranteed Hours contract, typically at least 6 hours per week during semester; possibility of increased hours during vacations
**12 posts available
The Careers Service are looking for friendly, motivated, energetic students to contribute to improving student employability.

You will provide a welcoming frontline service to students and employers, both in person and online, and support our work by maintaining accurate information and resources on our online portals.


Applicants
must be available for an in-person induction week from Monday 2 September and to officially start the role from Monday 9 September.


The Opportunity:


The Careers Service Assistant role is a multi-faceted opportunity to support a range of different stakeholders in a vibrant office environment of staff motivated to provide an excellent student experience at the University.

It will give you first-hand insight into the graduate labour market and opportunities to interact with recruiters.

This will include:


Providing a Welcome Desk service to students and employers, in person at our offices in the Main Library Building, George Square, and Nucleus, King's Buildings, by phone, and online, explaining our service and referring callers to appropriate next steps.

Advertising vacancies and events and managing accurate record keeping on the MyCareerHub database, in accordance with employment law.

Supporting large and small scale in person events hosted by the Careers Service.


Supporting the Careers Service use of social media - this could include posting on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Red, writing blogs, filming or being filmed, and contributing ideas.

Supporting proactive marketing outreach on campus.

Administrative tasks such as proof-reading, editing captions on videos, recording statistics, recording attendance at events.

Your skills and attributes for success:
Ability to build rapport quickly in a customer-service setting, using strong interpersonal skills and spoken and written communication skills

Excellent accuracy and attention to detail; able to follow instructions

Ability to work on own initiative, manage time effectively to complete tasks, and multi-task when necessary

Ability to be a collaborative, flexible and adaptable team member

Click to view a copy of the full job description **(opens new browser tab)

How to apply:

As a valued member of our team, you can expect:

  • A competitive salary of £12.04 per hour plus 18.1% annual leave allowance
  • An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
  • To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
  • Comprehensive Staff Benefits. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab)

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion


The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.


Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.

Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab)

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role.

International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.


Key dates to note
Interviews will be held online on or around Wednesday 29 May.

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