Internal Applicants Only - Placements Officer (Undergraduates) - United Kingdom Jobs Opening

September 20, 2024

Cardiff University

Cardiff

Internal Applicants Only - Placements Officer (Undergraduates)

Key Duties

Provide professional advice and guidance on work placement processes and procedures to internal and external customers, using judgement and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action where appropriate, and ensuring complex and conceptual issues are understood.
Investigate and analyse specific issues within work experience, creating recommendation reports, supported by advances within work placements.
Ensure that the provision of work placements is delivered to the institution, proactively changing the delivery according to customer requirements.
Collaborate with others to make recommendations for developments of established processes and procedures.
Establish working relationships with key contacts, developing appropriate communication links with the University’s Schools/Directorates and outside bodies as required.
Create specific working groups from colleagues across the University to achieve school/ departmental objectives.
Supervise specific project teams on an occasional basis to accomplish key objectives.
Develop and deliver training within work placements.
Undertake a variety of administrative duties to support the department.
Instruct and guide other employees across the University within work experience as required.

General Duties

Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties.
Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity.
Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role.

Specific Duties

Manage the Cardiff Business School placements inbox, acting as the first point of contact for internal and external customers.
Coordinate and host events such as student drop ins and Welcome events.
Manage key placement projects with support from the Placements Manager, for example, Placement Champions, Professional Placement Year programmes and/or the Integrated Work Placement programmes.
Evaluating placement programmes for continuous improvement
Collating data on work placements for use in promotional activities
Approving work placement and monitoring students in placement
Identifying new placement opportunities and sometimes acting as a lead contact for employers.
Continuous improvement of processes and procedures for managed placement programmes within Cardiff Business School.
Produce articles and marketing collateral; raising the profile of work placements amongst stakeholders.

Person Specification

Important notice:

It is the University’s policy to use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing. Candidates should evidence that they meet ALL of the essential criteria as well as, where relevant, the desirable.
As part of the application process you will be asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement.
Please ensure that the evidence you are providing corresponds with the numbered criteria outlined below.
Your application will be considered based on the information you provide under each element.

When attaching the supporting statement to your application profile, please ensure that you name it with the vacancy reference number, e.g. Supporting Statement for 19117BR

Essential Criteria.

Qualifications and Education

Degree/NVQ 4 or equivalent Professional membership/experience

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Substantial experience of working within placements, recruitment or work experience.
Able to demonstrate professional knowledge of business education and/or placements to give advice and guidance to internal and external customers.
Ability to set up standard office systems and procedures and make improvements as appropriate.

Customer Service, Communication and Team Working

Ability to communicate conceptually detailed and complex information effectively and professionally with a wide range of people.
Evidence of ability to explore customers’ needs and adapt the service accordingly to ensure a quality service is delivered.
Ability to make presentations and undertake business networking with a wide range of employers

Planning, Analysis and Problem solving

Evidence of ability to solve expansive problems using initiative and creativity; identifying and proposing practical solutions and resolving problems with range of potential outcomes.
Evidence of ability to work unsupervised to targets and deadlines, planning and setting priorities for own work and that of others and monitoring progress.

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