Leeds Beckett University
Employability Infrastructure & Partnerships Manager
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Employability Infrastructure & Partnerships Manager
Job Description
Employer Partnerships & Student Futures is a service which brings together our Student and Graduate employability offer, with our consultancy services for Academic colleagues and Employers, whilst also responding to and leading our approach to the emerging regional and national skills agenda. Our department incorporates two distinct strands - Beckett Careers & Degree Apprenticeships. This role is a senior leadership role within our Beckett Careers structure, to deliver positive impact on the educational (progression) outcomes of Leeds Beckett University students and graduates.
This is an exciting time to join Leeds Beckett University and the Employer Partnerships & Student Futures Service. Our new University Strategy 2026-2031 positions the employability of our students, and the progression outcomes of our graduates as a central focus. At the same time, we enter a new phase in our service development, with a commitment to respond to the employability needs of our students through partnership and collaboration across the institution, and beyond. With stretching ambitions to ensure every student succeeds, the Employer Partnerships & Student Futures Service will play a critical role in our institutional strategic ambitions for our graduates’ outcomes, and our role as a leading and influential anchor institution to our region.
About The Role And Team
Working as part of our Service strategic leadership team, this is a unique opportunity to play a leading role in shaping the future of our Service, and employability at Leeds Beckett University. As Employability Infrastructure & Partnerships Manager, you will help inform the strategic growth, reach and impact of employability services across the University, influencing outcomes and opportunities for students, graduates, employers and academic colleagues alike. This role offers the chance to make a lasting impact through helping our Service to identify and implement scalable and impactful employability initiatives, strengthening Service-wide employer engagement, advancing our employability digital capabilities, and embedding a culture of evidence-based decision making that enhances student success and graduate outcomes.
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Our newly created Employability Infrastructure and Partnerships Manager position will lead and bring together a new function across Beckett Careers. The team will perform a critical strategic enabling role to allow for the growth and impact of our employability services across all our key stakeholders – students, graduates, employers and academics. Working across all aspects of our department to understand objectives and priorities, the role will lead a team of specialist functions who will support the evaluation, impact, and growth, of our broad employability interventions and priorities, as well as supporting our ambitions to drive increased engagement. The Infrastructure & Partnerships Manager will oversee a team and portfolio comprising of employer operations, evaluation and impact, digital content & data, and engagement (communications), to ensure our broader department (and university), have the tools, policies, processes, insights and procedures to deliver against our service wide strategic objectives.
The post holder will be expected to develop a strong sense of institutional and service wide strategic priorities to help inform and drive the infrastructure work of the department, whilst enabling the growth of strong partnerships with external stakeholders and employers. Due to the nature of this role, an ability to influence others beyond direct line reports will be critical – to ensure both service-wide and institution-wide adoption of the output from the Infrastructure and Partnerships team.
About You
We are seeking an individual who can combine strategic thinking with operational impact. This is an excellent opportunity for someone to join our department and establish a new impactful function which supports our service and institutional ambitions. We are keen to hear from individuals with substantial knowledge/ experience of higher education – and particularly candidates with an understanding of placements, compliance, regulation, graduate recruitment, careers, or employer engagement. The successful candidate will hold an ability to work to stretching and diverse strategic priorities and will be comfortable balancing and prioritising competing demands with service wide and institutional responsibilities. An eye for detail and ability to research and implement compliant best practice is essential. An aptitude for developing, writing and implementing service and organisation-wide policies and procedures would be an advantage. If this sounds like you, and you are interested in joining an ambitious, forward-thinking team which balances a drive for excellent student outcomes, and strong strategic partnerships with industry and across our university community, then we would love to hear from you.
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To arrange an informal discussion about this post, please contact Mark Stow (Director of Employer Partnerships & Student Futures) at m.d.stow@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.
Closing date 7th August 2026 (2359)
On occasions where a high volume of applications are received, we may close vacancies early. If you wish to apply for this role, it is recommended that you do so promptly.
Interview date w/c 31st August (this may be subject to change)
Working here means you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits including our generous pension schemes, excellent holiday entitlements, flexible working, reduced study fees, subsidised fitness facilities and a lot more.
We welcome applications from all individuals and particularly from black and minority ethnic candidates as members of these groups are currently under-represented at this level of post. All appointments will be based on merit.
Leeds Beckett University is a Disability Confident Employer. Disabled candidates who demonstrate all essential criteria within the Person Specification will be invited to an interview.
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