Graduate Futures Coordinator

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The opportunity

The Graduate Futures Coordinator will coordinate and deliver LCC’s extra-curricular graduate support programmes, events and communication campaigns; designed to enhance the futures of our final year students and recent graduates. Aligned with the 2022-2032 UAL strategy, the role’s impact is seen in the development of an environment that supports the enhancement of our graduates’ employability and entrepreneurial skills, empowering them to start and further develop their own businesses and professional careers and effect change across wider society.

The Graduate Futures Coordinator will actively seek to build and strengthen links with the University and other external organisations to develop networks with opportunities for students. You will work collaboratively across the Graduate Futures and other key teams to maximise the potential of the resources and expertise available and further enhance our global reputation.

About you

You will be educated to degree level, with a relevant qualification ideally in a communications-based subject. You will demonstrate knowledge of digital event platforms and communication tools, with an interest in creative communications such as design, media and screen and/or the arts. An understanding of the issues facing students and recent graduates who wish to enter the creative industries, as well as a knowledge of graduate, alumni and industry engagement is essential.

In addition to this, the successful candidate will ideally have:

• Significant project coordination skills of a diverse pool of stakeholders
• Proven experience of building and nurturing networks, both in the UK and overseas
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Event management and/or coaching/mentoring experience is desirable
• Worked in another higher education institution and/or the creative industries in some capacity

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Lesley Wilkins, Senior Resourcing Adviser, lcc.jobs@lcc.arts.ac.uk or telephone: 020 7514 7985

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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