About us:
King’s Strategy 2030 sets out our vision for the future, ‘in service of society through academic excellence’. Our commitment to student success in and beyond the university ensures consistently excellent, research-driven and future-focused education that enables every student to succeed with us and to build fulfilling futures beyond graduation.
King’s Careers & Employability (KC&E) empowers over 40,000 students, researchers, and alumni to succeed after university. As a dynamic, cross-institutional service, we deliver inclusive, innovative, and future-focused support through digital, campus-based, and global initiatives. By integrating employability across the student experience, and collaborating with internal and external partners, KC&E equips our community with the skills, confidence, and connections to shape meaningful futures and make a lasting impact.
We pride ourselves on being the trusted partner of choice in sourcing and developing diverse talent for organisations around the world. Our Employer Relations & Development unit develop, manage and build relationships with corporates, SMEs, business chambers, non-profit organisations, NGOs and government agencies across all sectors on a global scale developing partnerships to enhance opportunity development and labour market intelligence for our stakeholders.
We are part of the Students & Academic Services Directorate, a collection of wide-ranging professional services in place to support King’s students and their education. As a directorate we manage the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond, to ensure a coherent and seamless student experience and effective administrative processes, working closely with King’s faculties to do so.
About the role:
As the operational lead for our Employer Relations, labour market insight and business development, the postholder will line manage a team of Advisers (each responsible for account management within specific industry ‘clusters) to maximise the range of career development opportunities provided to students, researchers and recent alumni.
They will be constantly seeking new and innovative means to engage the widest range of employer engagement across King’s, conscious of a rapidly changing early careers labour market and developing long-term partnerships which drive opportunity development and activity both integrated and alongside the curriculum.
A key aspect of the role is the use of data and evaluation to inform practice. This includes bringing external labour market insights into discussions with institutional and faculty colleagues, as well as shaping a clear, evidence-based narrative around the distinctive capabilities of King’s students. The role also supports on evaluating activities, delivering workshops to audiences and promoting the adoption of effective practice across outputs and King’s academic programme development.
The successful candidate will be a natural networker, who enjoys building and maintaining relationships with key internal stakeholders (faculty and professional services colleagues) and a wide range of contacts across the corporate, public and third sectors. They will also be drawing on significant management and relationship development experience to manage and motivate their team in their own relationship management and opportunity development. They will be enthusiastic and opportunity-facing regarding internal and external collaboration and partnership, and agile in engaging and innovating with others to the benefit of our stakeholders.
This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to cultivate meaningful relationships, drive our labour market intelligence, generate opportunities and engagement with a breadth of external partners alongside delivering directly to our audiences through an innovative range of annual activities. This is an opportunity to grow your skills in business development, data-informed practice and insights gathering, student delivery and graduate recruitment.
We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role.
This is a full-time post (35 hours per week) requiring regular engagement on campus, but we welcome applications from candidates seeking a flexible working pattern within necessary service operating norms. You will be offered an indefinite contract.
Some evening and weekend working will be necessary throughout the year.
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