This is an exciting, fixed term (maternity cover) opportunity for candidates looking to work predominantly with postgraduate researchers and research staff as part of the Careers Consultants for Researchers Team, to support development of career management skills and navigating careers in and beyond academia. This could be through in person or online workshops, one to one coaching appointments or designing digital resources. You’ll work with home and international clients from across all the academic disciplines within King’s. The ability to proactively build excellent stakeholder relationships across King’s and externally, particularly with the teams supporting researchers, is key. You’ll be skilled at building rapport and promoting our service with a wide range of people and wish to utilise your excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills to deliver a high-quality service.
As this is a fixed term role we will be prioritising applications from those who already have a qualification or equivalent experience in delivering guidance appointments to students or researchers.
This is a part time post (0.9 FTE/31.5 hours per week) and you will be offered a maternity cover contract until May 2027, or whenever the substantive postholder returns.
For any further enquiries about the role please contact Anna Favalessa(anna.favalessa@kcl.ac.uk) or Laura Johnson (laura.2.johnson@kcl.ac.uk) who both work in the careers consultant team for researchers.
About you:
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent level education
- Ability to establish and proactively build professional working relationships with external and internal stakeholders
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate clearly and appropriately with a range of audiences in different situations. This includes the ability to develop guidance skills to the level needed to work effectively with researchers.
- Ability to use qualitative and quantitative information to critically evaluate, demonstrate and improve the effectiveness of activities
- Ability to plan, prioritise and implement projects and regular tasks as part of a busy workload
- Willingness and ability to seek new and better ways to deliver an excellent service including embracing technological developments
- Sufficient work experience to provide understanding of a client’s career management needs. Evidence of an interest in the research environment and the issues researchers face in career management both within and beyond academia.
- Tenacity and resilience to deliver agreed outcomes in sometimes challenging environments
Desirable criteria
- A relevant professional qualification in careers and employability / coaching
Full details of the role and the skills and experience required can be found in the job description.