BIMM College
Submit: Careers Advisor
Reporting to: Careers Supervisor
Contractual Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. You’ll often be required to work evenings and weekends. You might also be
known as upon to help at as much as 4 open days / occasions per yr for which TOIL will be claimed.
A College for the Artistic Industries
BIMM College offers an intensive vary of programs in fashionable music, performing arts, and filmmaking to over 9,000 college students throughout 15 faculties within the UK, Eire, and Germany. We’re dedicated to offering the best high quality inventive arts training, permitting college students to maximise their profession potential.
BIMM College includes BIMM Institute, Institute for Up to date Theatre, Performers Faculty, Northern Ballet College, and Display and Movie College. This broad community of schools offers distinctive alternatives for college kids to collaborate creatively on tasks with others working in music, performing arts, and movie.
For 40 years, we’ve outfitted our college students with the data and expertise they should meet the calls for of the inventive industries – and graduate feeling industry-ready.
Past tutorial life, BIMM College gives a neighborhood constructed on a shared ardour, creativity, and perception system. Our inclusive tradition is on the core of every part we do, binding us collectively and driving us ahead.
Our Goal, Imaginative and prescient, and Values
Goal:
To form the way forward for the inventive industries
Imaginative and prescient:
To redefine inventive industries training for the good thing about all, giving college students from each background the talents and alternatives to thrive of their future careers.
Values:
Our values are on the core of our success; Consider in Everybody, Problem the Norm, Develop Collectively, Personal It and Do the Proper Factor.
Job Description
Careers Advisors are required to arrange college students and graduates for future employment, additional research and a long-term skilled profession within the inventive industries.
Working carefully with Careers Managers and tutorial groups to make sure that all routes to graduate employment, together with inventive portfolio and freelance pathways, are understood by college students to extend their possibilities of success.
Our versatile method to employability includes working with trusted {industry} companions to supply real-world, hands-on work expertise placements, tasks, performances and productions which improve employability all through a college students’ time at BIMM College.
We additionally make use of a novel method to sourcing expertise for entry stage work known as Expertise Match, a free jobs matching service for the inventive industries. Careers groups supply Expertise Match as a service to all graduates for the primary 18 months, working carefully with the Head of Expertise and Heads of Music, Movie or Performing Arts to assist safe development into employment.
After 18 months, the Alumni staff takes over duty for careers recommendation and steerage in addition to enhancing engagement and continued communication.
Careers Advisors are regionally positioned to be near our college students and up to date alumni (BIMM placement yr, closing yr and graduates up until 18 months) to help with recommendation and steerage and to arrange for a profession inside the inventive industries. Careers Advisor additionally help Careers Managers and the Head of Expertise, Head of Movie, Music and Performing Arts to supply candidates for alternatives once they come up.
Key AccountabilitiesProvide a wonderful service always, making certain an expert normal of supply to college students, shoppers and {industry} companions.Help the Careers Supervisor in constructing and sustaining native, regional and nationwide contacts to create an {industry} community that secures jobs and internships for BIMM College college students and graduates.Help the Careers Supervisor and Heads of Movie, Music and Performing Arts to advertise inventive improvement programmes of exercise and alternatives to interact with employment or freelance recommendation.Sustaining the Applicant Monitoring system (at present Bullhorn) with the freshest candidate, consumer and emptiness info.Offering 1:1’s advising on a spread of employability help together with CV’s, cowl letters, interview recommendation and so forth.Write participating advert copy and social media posts to draw candidates for roles.Act on job alerts shared by way of the ATS system, making ready and shortlisting related candidates in opposition to that function to help the Careers Manger and Head of Expertise and establishing interview / audition days.Help college students and graduates by means of the recruitment course of in order that they discover a appropriate work placement, freelance inventive alternative or paid function inside the {industry}.Aiding with profession occasions held both on campus or externally.Observe and document the variety of scholar tutorials monthly.Monitor and document agreed KPIs, together with however not solely: numbers of corporations, candidates, alternatives labored and profitable work placements.Promote fairness, range and inclusion always. Take proactive measures to extend entry and participation in all Careers and Enterprise actions and employability providers.Individual Specification
The postholder can be a collaborative skilled with expertise in Careers and Enterprise, who’s captivated with driving optimistic outcomes for college kids.
Important CriteriaExperience in a Careers / Employability function in a HE setting.Data and understanding of present Careers and Employability practices.Wonderful interpersonal expertise with the flexibility to develop and set up optimistic relationships with a spread of stakeholders.Extremely organised and cozy managing a full and diversified workload. • Versatile and adaptable.Wonderful communication expertise.Robust digital literacy, together with Microsoft Workplace. Fascinating CriteriaDegree or skilled qualification in a related topic.Information assortment and reporting expertise.
NB: This isn’t a whole assertion of all duties and obligations of this submit. The submit holder could also be required to hold out different duties consistent with the character of the submit as directed by and agreed with their line supervisor.
