Job Description

Salary

The starting salary will be from 33,951 on Grade E, depending on qualifications and experience

Package

Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme and relocation package (if applicable)

Job category/type

Admin, Professional, Managerial

Date posted

18/09/2025

Job reference

R08229

Education and Academic Services - Student Employability and Academic Success (SEAS)

This new full time (1.0FTE) post is immediately available on a permanent basis.

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working - some time on campus and some from home.

Summary of the role

The EPA (Faculty Lead Support) post provides dedicated coordination and administrative capacity to underpin the delivery of faculty-level employability priorities, strengthening the alignment between SEAS and academic colleagues. Working closely with Faculty Leads, this role acts as a key enabler for the smooth running of governance structures, projects, and events that connect employability strategy with academic programmes.

The Team

The team of SEAS Faculty Leads provide liaison and business partnering support between faculties and their academic departments and the services delivered by SEAS supporting the general portfolio of careers, employability and placement activity specific to faculty-caseloads. The team also facilitates and co-ordinates a programme of employer and alumni-led events, bespoke projects and activities for faculties including oversight of dedicated budgets.

Organisational Context

Student Employability and Academic Success (SEAS) resides within the Education and Student Support and the division for Education and Academic Services which is responsible for providing key education and administrative support activities that underpin the student experience. SEAS consists of professional services teams that provide a portfolio of educational activities to assist students with the development of their academic, professional, personal, career and employability attributes throughout their time at university, including support dedicated services for under-represented and disadvantaged students. Provision is delivered within the curriculum, and in collaboration with Faculties and academic departments, through extra-curricular activity and through facilitating access to work and study opportunities on campus, across the UK and globally. SEAS colleagues work collaboratively in the delivery of such provision with students, academics, employers, business intermediaries, alumni, other professional services, University stakeholders and higher education partners. SEAS collates data for internal management purposes and contributes to mandatory data compliance reporting for Government and other external stakeholders

Please ensure you read the and Person Specification for full details of this role.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

41 days leave per year options for flexible working numerous discounts at leading retailers onsite gyms on all of our campus' and a cycle to work scheme sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

The University of Exeter

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our world-leading research impact has grown more than any other Russell Group university in recent years, and we are home to some of the world's most influential researchers, seeking to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today. More than 99 percent of our research is of international quality and 47 percent is world-leading (2021 Research Excellence Framework).

We encourage proactive engagement with industry, business and community partners to enhance the impact of research and education and improve the employability of our students. Read about our world leading research - Green Futures and how we are transforming education for a changing world. We are located in a beautiful part of the country and Exeter (a fast growing tech hub) is one of only a few UK cities to have been designated as a UNESCO Creative City

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.

With over 30,000 students and 7,000 staff from 150 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN and Project Juno for Physics), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.

Further information

Please contact Paul Blackmore, p.blackmore@exeter.ac.uk.