Global Student Journey Lead in London

ABOUT GEDU

GEDU (Global Education) is on a mission to transform lives through education and expand access to learning worldwide. With operations in 15 countries—including the US, UK, UAE, Australia, and across Europe—we offer a diverse portfolio of educational opportunities, from PhDs and apprenticeships to language schools and business education. Our global network supports over 75,000 students across a wide range of disciplines/ sectors (Tech, Financial Services, Hospitality/ Tourism etc). We are committed to delivering exceptional student experiences and employment outcomes, ensuring that education leads to real-world impact and return on investment.

About the Global Employment & Corporate Relations Team

As GEDU continues its global expansion, we are building a dynamic Global Employment & Corporate Relations team to lead our “global strategy with local roots.” This team will drive employment innovation across our institutions, focusing on:

• Global Strategy Development: Create and implement a global employment framework for diverse educational needs.
• Partnership Building: Establish strategic collaborations with employers, industry partners and professional networks.
• Curriculum Integration: Work with academic leaders to incorporate employment skills into programmes globally.
• Program Oversight: Ensure the delivery of consistent employment initiatives worldwide.
• Career Services Leadership: Guide teams in providing career counselling, internships, and graduate jobs for our students.
• Alumni Engagement: Develop programmes to enhance alumni career growth, job opportunities and mentorship.
• Market Analysis: Monitor global employment trends to refine employment strategies.
• Performance Monitoring: Define and track KPIs to measure employment initiatives' effectiveness.
• Innovation and Technology: Utilize innovative tools to improve career development processes.

ROLE PURPOSE

The Global Student Employment Journey Lead will play a strategic role to design and lead a comprehensive employment strategy to support diverse student profiles worldwide across all our brands. You will bridge the gap between education and employment ensuring that students acquire the skills, experiences, and opportunities necessary to succeed in a competitive global job market. In conjunction with the Global Head of Employment and Corporate Relations you will design and execute the global student employment journey, ensuring students receive structured, scalable, and effective support from enrolment to post-graduation.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Strategy, Design and Collaboration: Design, implement and maintain a global employment student journey map from enrolment to alumni. Lead the development and integration of the career curriculum within academic programmes across all our brands and regions. Partner with regional teams to embed employment into the student experience to ensure consistent delivery of employment initiatives across all brands and geographies.
• Programme Delivery: Design key global workshops and events (e.g. CV, CL, assessments), bootcamps and co-curricular programmes across geographies. Create global toolkits for local/ brand use. Align peer mentoring, career coaching, and career fairs under a cohesive global experience model. Design engaging content for our online global employment module. Continuously evaluate and optimise student-facing employment touchpoints and interventions. Leverage data and technology to enhance learner experience and career outcomes.
• Evaluation & Innovation Alumni Programme: Build and manage a centralised alumni engagement programme and online content. Develop alumni mentoring models, speaker series and giving-back pathways etc. Integrate alumni into employer and student-facing strategies. Create dashboards and feedback loops from alumni into programme design. Oversee local brand programmes.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Background in Early Careers/Emerging Talent or Graduate Talent Recruitment and Development: Ideally, the candidate will have 10 plus years of experience working in a corporate environment or a blend of corporate and higher education careers services experience.
• Proven experience in global team leadership and cross-cultural collaboration.
• Expertise in programme/ training design and curriculum development.
• Expertise in designing and managing alumni networks, events and programmes.
• Strong understanding of student lifecycle and career development models.
• Knowledge of coaching and mentoring models.
• Excellent project and stakeholder management skills, ideally in matrix organisations.
• Data-informed approach to learner experience design.
• Creative, innovative and impact driven.

DIGITAL SKILLS & DATA MANAGEMENT

• Proficiency in modern digital tools, including Office 365, CRM/database systems and employability analytics platforms.
• Platform Ownership & Optimisation: Lead review and implementation of global platforms. Ensure platforms are scalable, compliant, and integrated. Act as global super-user and liaison with IT vendors.
• CRM & Data Utilisation: Familiarity with CRM systems and data-driven approaches to employer relationship management.
• Data Governance: Define global data taxonomy, field standards, and flow for key data. Maintain a single source of truth for employment data. Ensure secure, GDPR-compliant data handling.
• Analytics, Dashboards & Reporting: Build real-time dashboards tracking key students and employers’ information and set/manage global vs. local KPIs. Analyse performance trends and recommend improvements.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree.

OTHER INFORMATION:

The postholder will also be expected to demonstrate their commitment to GEDU’s values and regulations, including equal opportunities policy, the GEDU’s Social, Economic and Environmental responsibilities and minimise environmental impact in the performance of the role and actively contribute to the delivery of GEDU’s Environmental Policy, and to their Health and Safety responsibilities to ensure their contribution to a safe and secure working environment for staff, students, and other visitors to the campus. This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned.