• Strategic and operational responsibility for Employability and Careers. • Lead authority on employability and careers, working closely with colleagues across the institution to implement the Employability Strategy and improve graduate outcomes.• Working across service boundaries and leading Student Services on institutional priority projects. • Efficiently and effectively managing a large and complex budgets• Leading multiple teams through transition and change with positive outcomes of improved staff satisfaction and a better service for customers.

• Strategic planning - worked with senior faculty and support staff to ensure employability is fully embedded in the curriculum. • Professional leadership - led a team of 25 cross-campus professionals in the operational functions and strategic planning of the service. Successfully led change to systems, processes and staffing to ensure continuous improvement. • Employer Engagement - engaged with employers, locally, nationally and internationally to expand the number of work opportunities available to our students, inform our employability related activities and foster broader relationships that benefit the wider institution.• Faculties – worked and negotiated with colleagues in the Faculties to ensure appropriate and timely employability skills sessions are delivered at key stages in the curriculum. • Marketing and Promotions - worked with marketing colleagues to create new material to encourage student engagement with the Employability Service, participation in events and new initiatives.

• Offering careers advice, guidance and coaching to predominantly professional individuals supporting career change management• Training and facilitation of groups and individuals in: - Identifying transferable skills - Motivation and confidence building - CV writing and application forms - Composing personal profiles and covering letters - Job searching and approaching employers directly - Identifying the hidden and visible job market - Interviewing techniques• Providing freelance recruitment services and career development programmes to organisations

Worked for one of the UK’s leading employment-focused training and enterprise organisations, running a large number of Government contracts, specialising in assisting hard-to-reach groups and long-term unemployed. • Worked closely with the business manager to ensure targets were met and deputised in his absence.• Contributed to the business development strategy and built new relationships with employers to create a range of work opportunities for clients.• Mentored and assisted members of staff in a team leader role.• Ran a large and demanding caseload, working with long-term unemployed individuals, motivating and encouraging them to take up sustainable work opportunities. • Exceeded individual targets for assisting individuals into work, contributing to the business unit targets. • Delivered training to groups in various skills including job searching, CV writing, the application process and interview preparation.

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