Careers Coach (111807-0626) in Coventry

About the Role

This role will support the career development of WBS students, delivering careers provision in a variety of formats including 1:1 guidance and coaching, group activities and e‑learning as appropriate.

It will provide, alongside the Careers Managers, careers and professional development support at every stage from pre‑arrival to WBS through to course completion, helping students to achieve their career goals and to maximise employability outcomes.

• Typical Inputs Will Include
• Careers guidance appointments and focused applications support
• Assisting WBS students to identify career goals, draw up individual action plans and identify appropriate online resources to assist in the achievement of these
• Act as first point of contact for student queries and provide e‑guidance as appropriate
• Undertaking mock interviews
• Facilitating mock assessment centre type activities
• Delivery of skill development and career management workshops

This will include working with the Careers Managers and faculty/administrative colleagues to implement careers education/professional skill development inputs mapped against academic programmes and identifying opportunities for students to underpin their professional skill development with practical application and experiential learning.

• Record all careers and professional development interventions for students on the university careers portal and apply appropriate processes to monitor feedback from service users, collating careers metrics data as required.
• Maintain and develop expertise and specialist knowledge of graduate career paths and global employability trends to enable students to make effective transitions into their chosen careers.
• Support the Careers Managers by working alongside the Employer Relations team to ensure a collaborative approach to developing long‑term relationships with global, national and regional organisations for the generation of career opportunities for WBS students and alumni.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with course programme teams and student representatives, attending student‑staff committee meetings and working closely with student Careers Representatives.
• Other comparable duties and projects as defined by the WBS Careers Plus Director and relevant Careers Manager.

About You

• An honours degree or equivalent.
• Proven track record of career service, recruitment or HR experience, some of which has been gained preferably in a leading global business school, university or corporate recruiter with strong HE link.
• Experience of delivering career and personal development interventions to postgraduate calibre individuals, ideally including the use of online tools.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal), presentation and interpersonal skills to demonstrate credibility with high potential individuals and global corporate partners.
• Ability to work under pressure, individually and as a team member, with flexibility and organisational skills to adapt to the needs of multiple stakeholders and situations.
• Experience of effective career coaching and support to high potential individuals.
• Strong knowledge base of HE student career paths and global employability trends, selection practices and timelines.
• Proven ability of using own initiative and working pro‑actively with minimal support to create and deliver on innovative new ideas that have added value or improvement to a service or team/department.
• You Will Also Preferably Have
• Knowledge and expertise in a range of psychometric tools.
• Postgraduate qualification in careers guidance or HR, Information and Guidance in HE (PG Dip CEIG HE), an equivalent coaching qualification and/or graduate or chartered membership of CIPD or equivalent.

Benefits

• An attractive pension scheme.
• 30 days holiday plus University Christmas closure.
• Generous parental/adoption leave policy.
• On‑site childcare facilities.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities.
• Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Warwick is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and respectful community where everyone can thrive.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds, cultures and communities, and actively encourage candidates from under‑represented groups to apply.

• Safeguarding & DBS
• Roles involving regulated activity are subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at the appropriate level, in line with the DBS Code of Practice.
• The University will ensure that anyone subject to a barring order does not undertake any work with the barred group (children and/or adults).
• All employees, volunteers and partners are expected to share our commitment to safeguarding.
• Rehabilitation of Ex‑Offenders

The University will not discriminate against applicants who make a disclosure relating to a conviction.

Disclosures at application stage are only visible to the DBS team, not to hiring panels, ensuring fairness and preventing bias from the shortlisting process.

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