Associate Director for Employability and Employer Engagement, Keele University
Keele University appointed MRG to facilitate the appointment of an Associate Director for Employability and Employer Engagement a newly created post with the remit of taking the lead in advancing the University’s employability and employer engagement activities. The University were seeking an individual with experience gained taking responsibility for employability and employer engagement at an influential level and with a proven career track record in improving graduate level employment, employability and business/partner engagement on behalf of one or more HEIs. The Headhunt Campaign focused on candidates in comparable roles at similar scale HEI’s to Keele as well as candidates in middle to senior management roles in very large scale civic/Russell Group universities. We approached just under 100 people currently working at a senior level across careers, employability and employer engagement within the sector.
We managed advert response from jobs.ac.uk, the agcas.org.uk website alongside a selection of leading generalist recruitment websites and LinkedIn.
We presented the University with a shortlist of 9 candidates out of the 15 we met for preliminary interviews this included 2 internal candidates that we had interviewed and scored against the agreed selection criteria.
The successful candidate who joined the university in April 2018 was a vastly experienced employability professional with over 25 years’ experience in leading careers and employability functions in the HE sector.
He had also acted as a Board Director at AGCAS since 2015 and had worked extensively on behalf of the British Council as an advisor on employability.
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