Employer Liaison Officer

The Employer Connect team is part of Employer Engagement within Careers, Skills and Employability (formerly Student Opportunity) and supports employers seeking to attract and recruit students and graduates of the University.

We work with a wide range of organisations from multinationals to local SMEs and across a diverse range of sectors, ensuring students are able to access work experience, internship and graduate opportunities from the broadest range of sectors as they start their career journey.

As Employer Liaison Officer, you will take an active role in business development and employer engagement to maximise relationships, understand the needs of employers, and promote take up of our services. You will work with a range of employers across the arts and creative, education and public sectors, amongst others, to ensure that the range and breadth of opportunities offered by employers meet student demands and aspirations.

With a business development background, you will have experience of working with external and internal stakeholders and the confidence to deal with employers with established relationships and those new to our services, listening actively and proposing and delivering events and other options meeting their student engagement priorities.

You will be educated to A level standard and possess excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, and be able to demonstrate strong networking skills and the ability to build rapport quickly to develop strong working partnerships.

You will be a proactive self-starter, confident in approaching alumni and securing their involvement as panellists at events.

Experience in a business development, customer-facing, events management, administration, or sales and marketing role would be ideal. Experience of making initial contact with new people, whether by phone, email or social media, would be an advantage.

The University offers an attractive pension scheme, a generous holiday allowance plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. A generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy and onsite childcare facilities are also provided. Flexible working options are available. The University is a Living Wage employer.