Graduate Futures Consultant (Enterprise)

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The opportunity

The role of Graduate Futures Consultant (Enterprise) is to design and deliver extra-curricular Enterprise support as part of the Graduate Futures service to: 

•    Enable our students and graduates to fulfil their career ambitions through employment or self-employment 
•    Acknowledge their individuality, support their growth and encourage them as contributors to a civic society and innovation-led industry 
•    Create opportunities through connection and collaboration with our community of alumni and industry partners

This role works closely with students and graduates to help develop their entrepreneurial/enterprising mind set and attributes, facilitating and delivering tailored workshops, and 1-1 coaching and mentoring sessions, as well as co-ordinating specific events. The impact of the role is seen in the development of the pipeline of LCF graduate start ups to realise the objectives of the LCF Knowledge Exchange strategy and achieve Knowledge Exchange performance indicators. 

The post holder builds and nurtures links across the University and other external organisations to develop networks with opportunities for students and works collaboratively across the Graduate Futures & Business Innovation team to maximise the potential of the resources and expertise available. 

If you have any queries about this role please contact Frances Odell via email at f.odell@fashion.arts.ac.uk. 

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Alex Hitter, Resourcing Adviser at vacancies@fashion.arts.ac.uk.

About you

The successful candidate will ideally have experience of:

• Coaching/ mentoring students or SMEs in a business development capacity.
• Have worked in the creative industries in some capacity
• Designed and delivered workshops and/or webinars to businesses or freelancers and or students around starting or developing a business.

If you have experience of building networks, both in the UK and overseas, and offer project management expertise we would like to hear from you. Event management experience will be advantageous.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. UAL is home to a diverse body of over 6,000 academic, professional and technical staff who support more than 21,000 students from 130 countries.

The University is made up of 6 renowned Colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL is ranked second in the world for Art and Design in the 2022 QS World University Rankings.

Our culture

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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