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Student Professional Development Consultant – Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
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Posted 07 May 2025 Salary Grade 7, £40,497 - £45,413 End date 21 May 2025 LocationGlasgow Job Type Management Professional & Administrative Reference172612 Expiry 21 May 2025 at 23:59
Job Description
Job Purpose
The University of Glasgow is committed to empowering students to identify and achieve their career goals and realise their full potential. As a member of Student Professional Development Team in Careers, Employability & Opportunity, you will support the career planning and professional development of students (UG, PGT, PGR) and early-career graduates.
Data shows that students from widening participation backgrounds and those with disabilities may face additional barriers to pursuing or securing graduate level outcomes. This role will lead on focused work to understand how we can ensure our career development activities and opportunities are visible, inclusive and accessible to these cohorts.
You will make a significant contribution to the successful graduate outcome of our students by championing inclusive and accessible careers and employability activity and supporting colleagues to embed this into the student experience.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
- Lead on the delivery of inclusive Careers, Employability & Opportunity activities, ensuring our services meet the needs of target cohorts. This may involve developing and implementing bespoke activity for target groups, and/or acting as the main point of contact and expertise for colleagues to ensure that all Careers, Employability & Opportunity activities are inclusive by design.
- Using a proactive and targeted approach, work in close partnership with colleagues who are responsible for supporting students with specific needs and/or from non-traditional backgrounds to ensure Careers, Employability & Opportunity services are designed to reach and address the needs of students that are underrepresented.
- Consult with students as stakeholders and the student organisations to identify opportunities for service enhancement. Work in partnership with students to develop projects, events and other initiatives.
- Work closely with other members of Careers, Employability & Opportunity teams to improve the career outcomes of students, developing training and good practice to enhance the inclusivity and accessibility of all careers and employability activity.
- Lead on Careers, Employability & Opportunity staff upskilling and CPD on topics of equality, diversity and inclusion, ensuring that all staff are equipped to appropriately and confidently support all students, with a particular focus on meeting the needs of disabled and widening participation students.
- Analyse and interpret data relating to graduate outcomes, internal surveys and labour market intelligence, particularly as it relates to disabled students and those from widening participation backgrounds, to help inform provision with a particular focus on underrepresented groups.
- Monitor the effectiveness, quality and impact of provision, feedback from students and other stakeholders, and use this to inform planning and practice. Maintain a current understanding of trends in the global labour market to inform planning and practice.
Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills & Experience
Knowledge / Qualifications
Essential:
A1 Either: Ability to demonstrate the competencies required to undertake the duties associated with this level of post having acquired the necessary knowledge and skills in a similar or number of different professional roles. Or: Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework level 9, (Ordinary Degree, Scottish Vocational Qualification level 4), or equivalent (including professional qualifications), and experience of personal development in a similar or related role(s).
A2 Thorough knowledge of student employability, as well as an awareness of broader higher education landscape and issues impacting disabled and widening participation students.
A3 Understanding of the particular challenges facing disabled graduates and graduates from widening participation backgrounds in entering employment and professional level graduate outcomes.
A4 Thorough knowledge of the Equality Act 2010, particularly as it relates to the workplace and employment rights.
Skills
Essential:
C1 Strong interpersonal skills including negotiating, motivating, influencing and relationship building.
C2 Proven track record of effective team working to shared goals.
C3 Excellent communication, including presentation and report-writing skills.
C4 Ability to undertake mid to long term strategic planning spotting and acting upon opportunities to progress plans.
C5 Ability to demonstrate creativity and innovation in service design and delivery.
C6 Ability to analyse complex issues and think strategically.
C7 Understanding of relevant policies and procedures relative to the role, and the quality outputs and standards required.
Desirable:
D1 Digital content creation and social media.
Experience
Essential:
E1 Professional experience as a Careers Adviser, or in a specialist inclusive employability-related role.
E2 Strong track record of designing and delivering professional careers and employability interventions that are aimed at addressing the needs of diverse stakeholder groups.
E3 Proven ability to work within complex range of teams, manage multiple projects, including collaboration with internal colleagues within the University and at other institutions. Demonstrate effective time management to deal with conflicting priorities and deadlines.
E4 Planning and progressing projects within professional guidelines applying initiative and independent judgement.
E5 Demonstrable experience of evaluating service delivery for continuous improvement.
E6 Experience of applying initiative and knowledge to make informed decisions on a wide range of student-related issues.
Desirable:
F1 Experience of working in an HE environment.
Terms and Conditions
Salary will be Grade 7, £40,497 - £45,413 per annum.
This post is full time (35 hrs p/week) and is fixed term for up to Hard end date 31/07/2026
Closing Date: 23:45 21st July 2025
The University of Glasgow has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. If you require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the UK, you will be required to meet the eligibility requirements of the visa route to be assigned a Certificate of Sponsorship.
Please note that this post may be eligible to be sponsored under the Skilled Worker visa route if tradeable points can be used under the Skilled Worker visa rules. For more information please visit: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.
As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
1 A warm welcoming and engaging organisational culture, where your talents are developed and nurtured, and success is celebrated and shared.
2 An excellent employment package with generous terms and conditions including 41 days of leave for full time staff, pension - pensions handbook https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/payandpensions/pensions/, benefits and discount packages.
3 A flexible approach to working.
4 A commitment to support your health and wellbeing, including a free 6-month UofG Sport membership for all new staff joining the University https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/staff/healthwellbeing/.
We believe that we can only reach our full potential through the talents of all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Applications are particularly welcome from across our communities and in particular people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented within the University. Read more on how the University promotes and embeds all aspects of equality and diversity within our community https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/.
We endorse the principles of Athena Swan https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/athenaswan/ and hold bronze, silver and gold awards across the University.
We are investing in our organisation, and we will invest in you too. Please visit our website https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ for more information.