Early Careers Advisor

3 weeks ago

Didcot, United Kingdom UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Full time

**Early Careers Advisor**
**Band**: UKRI Band D
**Salary**: £31,931
**Hours**: Full time
**Contract Type**: Open Ended
**Location**: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) or Daresbury Laboratory (DL) with some travel to other STFC sites

**Benefits**: 32.5 days holiday + 8 bank holidays + exceptional defined average salary pension + excellent work life balance

Do you have a passion for supporting and guiding graduates and students through their programmes? Would you like to be part of the team developing our highly successful Graduate Scheme?

As part of UK Research and Innovation, The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has a prestigious and growing Graduate scheme. At STFC our scientist, technologists, engineers and business support team explore the unknown and turn what they find into work that changes the world around us. Whether it’s sending probes into space or finding new ways to treat cancer, everyone here plays a vital role in making a positive difference to society. As an Early Careers Advisor you will play a key part in developing our Graduates to work on world-leading projects, tackling real world issues and to be the future leaders of STFC.

**Your responsibilities will be to**:
**Graduate Programme expertise**
- Provide operational coordination and administration of STFC Graduate and Student Schemes.
- Work with the Head of Graduate Programmes and learning and development colleagues to plan, continually improve and implement the Graduate and Student development programmes, ensuring that training and development is of a consistently high quality and supports the progression of the Graduates towards Chartered status/professional accreditation as appropriate
- Effectively represent and promote the schemes to potential recruits and partner organisations

**Manager/Supervisor/Graduate/Student support**
- Provide effective pastoral and developmental interventions to Graduates and Students, ensuring high levels of engagement and retention on each programme
- Provide pro-active and responsive advice, guidance and support to Managers, Supervisors, Graduates and Students

**Project delivery**
- Support the Early Careers Resourcing Team with attraction and recruitment activities (including interviewing and assessment centres)
- Plan and deliver keep-in-touch and induction activities
- Support the Head of Graduate Programmes to deliver a range of projects, ensuring compliance with all health and safety and safeguarding policies.
- Participate and attend as appropriate our annual outward-bound week and awards evenings.

**Person Specification**

**Essential**
- Knowledge, understanding and experience of Graduate and Student programmes in the UK
- Experience of designing and/or delivering learning and development interventions and/or events
- Experience of managing/supporting graduates/students and/or those early in their career
- Strong organisational skills with high levels of accuracy and attention to detail
- Strong teamwork skills with an ability to develop collaborative relationships
- Strong oral, written and presentation skills with the ability to convey information to a diverse audience of internal and external stakeholders

**We would love to hear from you if you have either of the below, but neither are essential**:

- HR or Learning and Development related qualifications, such as CIPD
- Knowledge, experience and understanding of early careers recruitment methodology and practices

**Commitment**

The Graduate Team is currently working in a hybrid environment with a minimum of 2-3 days per week on site. This role may require travel to other STFC and UKRI sites within the UK, and to university career fairs. Occasional unsocial hours may need to be worked to engage with students/universities and to facilitate the outward-bound week and other key events.

**About UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)**

UKRI launched in April 2018, UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit benefits of working for UKRI.

**How we support EDI in the workforce**

At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community. For further information, please visit ‘How we support EDI in the workforce’.

**Disability Confident Employer**

**How to apply**

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