Employability Content and Delivery Manager

About The Role
With 120 years’ creative arts experience, we are on a quest to offer the highest standards of teaching and professional facilities, as well as a vibrant creative community. With over 7,000 students, our portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate courses and postgraduate research represents the breadth of the creative industries, from art, design and fashion, to games, music, film and business.
Our mission is to deliver exceptional higher education and research, harnessing the fusion of creativity and technology as foundations of the future economy. We use our knowledge and expertise in these disciplines to generate positive and sustainable opportunities for all.
 
We are now seeking to recruit a Employability Content and Delivery Manager who is passionate about supporting students’ career development, and managing a range of curricular and co-curricular activities, events and services and managing resources effectively to ensure maximum impact for our students. Based in the Employability team, this role will be responsible for managing the coaching team to provide high-quality employability services that enable our students to attain graduate-level jobs.
Working at the interface between academic faculties and departments this role will ensure that curriculum-embedded employability interventions are delivered for all of our students on-campus and online. This role will lead on generating engaging employability content to be used across relevant digital and static platforms. As a senior member of the department, this post will play a pivotal role in shaping services and interventions that support the University 2030 strategy.
About You
The successful candidate for this role will need to be a pro-active leader who is conscientious and hard-working who actively plays their part in continuing to make Falmouth University a great place to work. It’s a fast-paced environment, we are looking for people who have the energy and agility needed to ensure we traverse an ever-changing HE landscape, as we execute our ambitious plans. Alongside these core qualities, the candidate will have a demonstrable recent and relevant experience of coaching of varying complexity and criticality (preferred in HE employability sector), experience of managing a team, knowledge of digital content production and management, be independent and extremely organised, and ready to take on a diverse set of responsibilities that support the wider Employability team.
 
We are looking to hear from candidates who have the following skills/experience:
 

• The ability to prioritise multiple strands of work in a busy environment and to work with a high level of autonomy, as well as working collaboratively with others.
• Strong communication, relationship building and organisational skills
• Experience in developing curricular or co-curricular sessions, coaching sessions, or workshops
• Experience in digital content creation .
• Prior knowledge on accessibility provisions to support Widening Participation and graduates who are unemployed or in under-employment.

 
For further details on the skills/experience required for this role, please see the full job description above.
 
This is a part time 17.5 hours a week position working 7 hours per day for two days per week and 3.5 hours for one day per week. If you are looking to have an informal discussion about the vacancy ahead of applying, please email [email protected].
 
The closing date for this position is Wednesday 17 January 2024.
 
About Us

In return for your hard work and commitment, we offer the successful candidate for this role a range of benefits, including:
  
 – Employer Pension Contribution up to 12%.
 – 35 days + 8 days bank holiday.
 – Relocation Assistance to 10% of salary.
 – Annual salary increments (Until top of grade reached)
 – Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay
 – Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme (Tusker)
 – Salary Sacrifice Cycle Scheme
 – Salary Sacrifice Home & Tech Scheme
 – Life Assurance

Full details on our employee benefits can be found on our careers page www.falmouth.ac.uk/jobs. Alongside these benefits we offer a first class working environment across our campuses with all the facilities you would expect from a leading University.

 
A successful external candidate for this position would be employed by Falmouth Staffing Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Falmouth University. Employees of Falmouth Staffing Ltd work alongside Falmouth University colleagues in the delivery of Falmouth’s strategic vision and will adopt Falmouth University’s HR policies and procedures in full.
Falmouth University welcomes and encourages job applications from people of all identities and backgrounds, particularly those under-represented and/or marginalised, as it is important we have a diverse range of candidates to consider.