Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PA About the Role We are offering a fantastic opportunity to join the team of Careers Advisers to provide careers guidance to research staff through 1-1s, group work, and close collaboration with departments, faculties, divisions and other University teams, particularly the Researcher Hub.
This post is offered as part-time or fixed term position until July 2025.
Candidates able to offer a minimum of 0.4fte will be considered.
We also welcome applications from those seeking a secondment opportunity.
This role is available from November 2025 onwards.
Careers Advisers at Oxford come from a diverse range of backgrounds and we value the breadth that this experience brings to the team.
The successful candidate will have substantial experience; for example in a research-related environment or in a sector of interest to those with a research skill-set.
This role may suit postdocs with experience in academic research, research services or other HE professional roles and/or another research-relevant sector.
The Careers Service at Oxford University is one of the more innovative and engaged such services in the UK.
Our mission is to provide and involve all our clients in a range of high value career-focused services, programmes, and activities to encourage and enable them to make and implement well-informed decisions about their careers.
We serve current Oxford students (26,000 undergraduates and postgraduates), 4,800 research staff, an international community of over 300,000 alumni, and 12,000 employers and other opportunity providers.
The role is primarily office based, whether at the Careers Service or in spaces where research staff meet such as departments, divisions and the Researcher Hub.
All applications must be submitted by 12:00 noon on Friday 29 November 2024, in order to be considered.