Ref Number
B06-00192
Professional Expertise
Student Well-being and Registry
Department
Vice-Provost (Education and Student Experience) (B06)
Location
London
Working Pattern
Full time
Salary
£43,981-£52,586
Contract Type
Permanent
Working Type
Hybrid
Available for Secondment
No
Closing Date
11-Jun-2026
UCL Careers provides a ‘core’ service for all students as well as ‘local’ careers support for faculties and departments. Such local support is managed by three careers teams that work with faculty groupings. One of these groupings is ‘Life and Medical Sciences’ (LMS) consisting of The Faculties of Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, Population Health Sciences and Brain Sciences.
UCL’s Life and Medical Sciences faculties constitute one of the largest and most prestigious groupings of academics in biomedical, life and population health sciences in the UK. As of 2025 these faculties had a combined total of over 5,000 undergraduate students and over 6,000 taught post-graduate students. Subjects range from undergraduate degrees in psychology, pharmacy and biochemistry to a highly diverse range of specialist postgraduate degrees in areas such as human genetics, drug development, public health nutrition, global health and cognitive neuroscience.
The Careers Consultant will be one of a team of four Careers Consultants, and a two-strong Work-Related Learning Team, developing and delivering careers education programmes to the students across the four Life and Medical Sciences faculties.
Careers consultant–led educational activities include delivering small- and large‑group teaching (online and in person) to develop careers related knowledge and employability skills, faculty specific careers appointments and some departmental / faculty level events provision. Strategic and administrative duties include planning an annual programme with academic and support staff, contributing to educational meetings, marketing careers provision, and managing an online platform (Moodle).
In addition, the Careers Consultant will deliver on some of our central service provision, including 1:1 careers guidance appointments open to all UCL students, and recent alumni, and work collaboratively on a range of central projects.
A full job description is attached to this advert.
You should be a confident presenter and facilitator and enjoy running group sessions as well as working with students 1:1. You should enjoy, and have experience of, work with a range of stakeholders so that you are well equipped to work closely with students, academic staff, support staff and employers. You should have a proven ability to plan, lead on and manage areas of work to a high standard and agreed objectives/outcomes.
To meet our current stakeholder needs we require someone with relevant experience so you will need a professional qualification in careers and employability and previous work experience within higher education. Experience working in, or knowledge of, career areas of interest to life and medical sciences students would be beneficial, such as academic research, life science industry and healthcare.
Please read our job description carefully, paying particular attention to the essential and desirable criteria, and ensure these criteria are covered in your application.
Please read our job description carefully, paying particular attention to the essential and desirable criteria, and ensure these criteria are covered in your application.
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
