Postgraduate Placements Officer

3 weeks ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom Cardiff University Full time

**Advert**

**Postgraduate Placements Officer**

Student Futures, part of the Student Life Division of Cardiff University, is a fast-paced department working with University colleagues, students, and employers to provide a service that enhances student employability and improves graduate outcomes.
- Working as part of the Opportunities Zone team in the Business School, the focus of this role is to support students to undertake placements. The role will involve sourcing placement opportunities, supporting students, liaising with academic colleagues and employers, and undertaking development projects when required. The role will involve a particular focus on postgraduate students, and you will use a CRM system to manage the end-to-end processes involved in setting up, monitoring and evaluating placements. This will include individual placements and group projects. You will work within a team and establish process but there is lots of scope for creativity and initiative to grow this important provision for students in the Business School.
- The post is full time (35 hours per week) and open-ended.**Salary**: £29,762 - £34,314 per annum (Grade 5)
- Due to the nature of this role, you may be occasionally required to undertake some work in evenings and at weekends.
- Cardiff University offers many excellent benefits, including 37 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pro rata for part time staff, local pension scheme, a cycle to work scheme and other travel initiatives, annual increments up the pay scale, and more. It is an exciting and vibrant place to work, with many different challenges and is a proud Living Wage supporter.**Date advert posted: Thursday, 29 June 2023**

**Closing date: Sunday, 16 July 2023**

**Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.**

**Key Duties**
- Provide professional advice and guidance on work placement processes and procedures to internal and external customers, using judgement and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action where appropriate, and ensuring complex and conceptual issues are understood.
- Investigate and analyse specific issues within work experience, creating recommendation reports, supported by advances within work placements.
- Ensure that the provision of work placements is delivered to the institution, proactively changing the delivery according to customer requirements.
- Collaborate with others in order to make recommendations for developments of established processes and procedures.
- Establish working relationships with key contacts, developing appropriate communication links with the University’s Schools/Directorates and outside bodies as required.
- Create specific working groups from colleagues across the University to achieve school/ departmental objectives.
- Supervise specific project teams on an occasional basis to accomplish key objectives.
- Develop and deliver training within work placements.
- Undertake a variety of administrative duties to support the department.
- Instruct and guide other employees across the University within work experience as required.

**General Duties**
- Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties.
- Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity.
- Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role.

**Specific Duties**
- Manage the Cardiff Business School placements inbox, acting as the first point of contact for internal and external customers.
- Coordinate and host events such as student drop ins.
- Manage key placement projects with support from the Placements Manager. For example, Postgraduate Live Business Projects and placements on curricular postgraduate programmes
- Evaluating placement programmes for continuous improvement
- Collating data on work placements for use in promotional activities
- Approving work placement and monitoring students in placement
- Identifying new placement opportunities and sometimes acting as a lead contact for employers.
- Continuous improvement of processes and procedures for managed placement programmes within Cardiff Business School.
- Produce articles and marketing collateral; raising the profile of work placements amongst stakeholders.

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