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JOB DESCRIPTION to enhance Westminster’s ability to secure opportunities for our students. • Work with employers to ensure they understand the full range of programmes and services available in the University to support workforce development and recruitment for their organisations – including short courses, undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and apprenticeships. • Coordinate a structured key account / customer relationship management process to ensure employers and the University can communicate effectively, sharing and disseminating opportunities for closer collaboration. • Maintain strategic oversight of the University’s relationships with key Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies (PSRB organisations), and associated contracts. • Maintain and enhance other external relationships, such as those with NGOs and community groups. • Ensure that, in the future, 29 MR fulfils its potential as a ‘front door’ to the University, a showcase for our relations with business, industry, employers and other external bodies and groups, a Westminster ‘home’ for business, industry and employer partners and the site of a transformative step change in our external engagement. Student Experience • Use expertise and knowledge gained from employers to inform College, School and Course Teams on employer requirements regarding graduate attributes and potential new short course offerings for development. • Recruit employers to support other University needs such as placements/internships for students, work-based learning opportunities, and career mentoring, working closely with relevant Professional Services teams and stakeholders such as the Careers Centre. • Contribute to cross-institutional work on the enhancement of graduate outcomes, working closely with relevant Academic and Professional Services teams and stakeholders. • Support Colleges and Schools with the planning of Employer Advisory Boards, the recruitment of volunteer members, and the sharing of best practice arising from the Boards around the University. • Contribute to external engagement which fosters and transforms student enterprise at the University, working closely with the Head of the Student Enterprise Centre. Portfolio development and revenue management • Keep under review and work with the Schools and Colleges to enhance the University’s portfolio of industry-related and skills and professional development courses; • Ensure the delivery and ongoing development of revenue streams related to the University’s business facing portfolio of activities, such that the expected qualitative and quantitative return on investment is achieved. 6
JOB DESCRIPTION 2. APPRENTICESHIPS AND INDUSTRY-LED COURSES • Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders across the University to co-ordinate and develop the University’s strategic plan for apprenticeships, and proactively identify areas of future profitable apprenticeship growth for the University. • Line manage an Apprenticeships Team that will deliver fully compliant apprenticeship courses in line with the University’s strategic aims; policies and procedures to meet employer and regulatory requirements; processes to assist academic and Quality and Standards colleagues in developing new apprenticeships; and manage apprenticeship budgets and expenditure in collaboration with University finance officers. • Lead on external representation and promotion of the University’s apprenticeship provision and take responsibility for the delivery of apprenticeship growth targets. • Oversee the management and strategic development of collaborative institutional apprenticeship partnerships (eg. City of Westminster College). • Initiate and support the development of related courses – eg. industry-sponsored degrees. 3. 29 MR • Work with the University’s 29 MR Steering Group to define, coordinate and ensure the implementation of the objectives for 29 MR, whether related to business engagement, student enterprise, the student experience, income generation, budget management, and the management of the 29 MR space and facilities. • Liaise with the University’s professional service teams to ensure delivery of the highest quality facilities, services, events support and catering offer, such that 29 MR achieves its full potential as a prestige location for business engagement and a transformative environment for business learning. 4. LINE MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY The postholder will be responsible for line-managing the leads/heads/directors of the following: • Student Enterprise Centre • Apprenticeships and Industry-Led Courses • Skills and Professional Development Courses • Alumni Relations CONTEXT All Departments are expected to think creatively about the effectiveness of the University’s administration and to initiate change and innovation in accordance with the needs and expectations of Westminster as a modern, professional, international university. Key to the success of the professional support functions is the need to continue to develop positive, forwardlooking, relationships with academic colleagues 7
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