Job Title: LUMS Placements and Internships Manager
Location: Lancaster
Salary: £38,205 to £44,263 per year
Job type: This role is an indefinite post and will involve occasional out of hours working/travel within the UK
Closing Date: Monday 19th February 2024
Interview Date: Tuesday 19th March 2024
The Role:
Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) is a quadruple-accredited, world-ranked management school. At the heart of the student experience is our innovative and busy LUMS Careers team, who make a significant impact on the career development and employability of undergraduates, postgraduates, and graduates.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, driven, and experienced professional to lead on our placements and internships provision.
This role will be a crucial to the work of LUMS Careers, supporting all LUMS students to engage with employers primarily through placement years and internships.
The role will involve developing relationships with employers to encourage their support of student experiential learning opportunities including work shadowing, insight days, internships, and placements. You will have an engaging and effective professional approach, with confidence in your ability to develop and manage your network across the sectorsm, especially with key employers, to create new opportunities for our students.
Candidate Requirements:
You will have recent, relevant, experience at an appropriate level of supporting students through work-based learning, or in graduate recruitment or in student/talent development.
Your previous relevant experience will have equipped you for adapting flexibly to this role and you will be someone who thrives on change, seeks new challenges, and has a passion for helping a diverse community of students and graduates into work related learning opportunities through the development of strong employer networks.
Extra Information:
We are in a beautiful part of Northwest England with great facilities and a warm and welcoming community. We offer an occupational pension scheme, a generous annual leave allowance, excellent training and development opportunities, flexible benefits, an employee assistance programme, and flexible working options.
If you share our commitment to excellent service and enjoy working in a fast-paced and friendly environment, we would love to hear from you.
Please click APPLY to be redirected to our website to complete an application form.
Candidates with experience of: Head of Careers, Head of Courses, College Team Leader, Employment Manager, Placement Manager, Academic Placement Manager, University Placement Manager, University Internships Manager, Internships Manager, may also be considered for this role.
