Job Description

Employability & Careers Consultant

Role

: Employability & Careers Consultant - Part-Time

Department

: Employability & Graduate Futures

Grade

: 7 - 39,975 - 47,416 pro-rata

Responsible to

: Head of Employability & Graduate Futures

Campus

: Derry-Londonderry

Part-time/ fixed term until end of July 2026

The university employability strategy outlines an ambition to embed employability and enterprise in all programmes of study. To contribute to university objectives and employability priorities, the role holder will provide faculties with employability and enterprise focused solutions that will support the enhancement of academic programmes and the overall student experience.

The role holder will establish and maintain productive relationships across faculties, internal departments and graduate employers to design, deliver and assess innovative curricular and co-curricular employability and enterprise interventions thereby providing students with opportunities to develop the employability and enterprise skills required in a competitive 21st century workplace environment.

Please be advised that due to the minimum salary thresholds imposed by the UKVI, this post will not qualify for university sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please check your options here: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa

If you have any specific queries regarding this post, please contact the named email address for the vacancy, as listed on the main current vacancies landing page.

If you have any specific queries regarding eligibility to work in the UK, our Resourcing Compliance team may be able to help: Resourcing-compliance@ulster.ac.uk

We may create a 12-month waiting list for same or similar roles within the Department / Faculty. The University reserves the right to extend the waiting list across the University if required for certain posts.

Ulster University holds a silver Athena SWAN Award in recognition of our commitment to advancing Gender equality. You can read more about what this means at www.ecu.ac.uk/equality-charters/athena-swan and on our university website https://www.ulster.ac.uk/peopleandculture/employee-benefits/equality-diversity/athena-swan.The University has a range of initiatives to support a family friendly working environment, including flexible working.

Closing date: 14 December 2025

Job ID :

039727

Location :

Magee

Close Date :

14-Dec-2025