Careers and Employability Officer

2 months ago


Ealing, United Kingdom METANOIA INSTITUTE Full time

**About Us**

We were founded in the early 1980s and were among the first organisations in the UK to offer humanistically oriented professional training programmes.

Metanoia Institute is a well-established educational charity, specialising in the professional training programmes for counsellors, psychotherapists, counselling psychologists, supervisors, coaches and organisational development consultants.

Metanoia Institute has provided high-quality training in the psychological therapies for more than 30 years. We offer part-time, university validated undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology and allied programmes in Coaching, Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Organisational Development and Therapeutic Fostering.

**ROLE PURPOSE**:
Support employability activities designed to provide opportunities for students to benefit from work-based learning and work experience. Work with programme teams to help embed employability skills and graduate attributes.

**ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Work with programme teams to embed employability in all programmes.
- Co-ordinate the Institutes Employability approach to support the overall employability strategy.
- Help ensure that graduate attributes are explicitly embedded in all programmes.
- Develop links with employers and extend the numbers of employers who have active relationships with Metanoia.
- Work closely with employers to develop work related opportunities for students.
- Work closely with students to match them to work based learning and work experience opportunities and ensure that they are well-prepared to undertake them.
- Liaise with employers and students during placements to ensure that they are working effectively.
- Publicise and promote the opportunities available to students and staff in relation to employers and employability.
- Maintain accurate records and management information to support the Institute in reporting to the Senior or Executive Team.
- Use IT databases effectively to support the Institute.
- Be the main point of contact for employability and careers data, managing and maintain any such databases.
- Take a lead on employer and post study questionnaires and survey related to employment and career characteristic of our alumni.
- Interrogate careers and employability data for the purposes of our statutory returns, annual monitoring etc.
- Provide appropriate information about the Service and to refer users on to colleagues for further relevant services as necessary.
- Support the work required for organising career development learning and related programmes, careers fairs, programmes of presentations, groupwork, and meetings, including attendance at meetings and the room bookings, catering and travel arrangements associated with this.
- Provide a pro-active, courteous and effective support service to deadlines as necessary for the advertising and listing of vacancies and various opportunity providers - mainly local and national employers.
- To pro-actively undertake general office-related duties including the collection, dating and allocation of post, collation of documents, photocopying, filing, ordering stationery, and maintaining a smooth and functioning office environment etc.
- Regularly maintain Information points; visiting employers and programmes of activities organised by the Service.
- Make use of a range of computer-databases generally in support of the work of career and employability services.
- Assist other members of staff as the need arises, particularly in connection with the needs of staff and students regarding career and employability information; visiting employers and programmes of activities organised by the Service around our campus’s.
- Provide information and support to student learners, for their best use of the resources made available to them.
- To carry out any other duties appropriate to the grade, as directed by the Academic Registrar or a nominated representative.

**Essential Skills and Experience**
- Educated to HND/degree level or equivalent and/or relevant vocational qualification such as an NVQ Level 3 in Advice and Guidance or similar. Equivalent work experience may be accepted in lieu of formal qualifications.
- A good standard of literacy and numeracy equivalent to GCSE English and Maths
- Extensive experience of working with employers
- Experience of developing employability activities and opportunities
- Relevant experience in a similar role supporting students in being professionally ready to enter the workplace.
- Experience of providing first-line advice and guidance.
- A high standard of IT skills including familiarity with Microsoft Office, information systems or similar databases.
- Knowledge and skills in general administration procedures such as filing, record keeping (electronic and manual).
- Good written and verbal communication skills. Able to demonstrate an organised approach to work with ability to work without



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