Career Development Professional
Vision West Nottinghamshire College
Job title
Career Development Professional
Job reference
REQ0001222
Date posted
08/07/2026
Application closing date
22/07/2026
Location
Mansfield
Salary
Careers Qualification at level 6 the salary will be £30,069 without a Level 6 professional careers qualification the salary will be £26, 792 per annum.
Contractual hours
Basis
Full time
Job category/type
Support Vacancies
REQ0001222 Careers Development Professional.pdf
Job Summary
The purpose of this role is to contribute to the work of the Careers and Employability Team. The team support the teaching and learning process by delivering a professional and impartial service that aims to help individuals to make informed and considered decisions about their education, training and employment options. The service aims to promote the value of learning and empower individuals to reach their targets, be aware of labour market information and aspire to new challenges to support progression.
The ideal candidate will contribute to the development and delivery of an effective Careers programme and achievement of the Gatsby Benchmarks, suitably qualified to provide in-depth careers and employability related information, advice, and guidance to students, prospective students and community clients and build links with employers, external providers, and subject tutors to support with information advice and guidance activities.
It is essential that the person appointed has the ability to build positive relationships, and effectively utilise excellent communication & organisational skills and adopts professional values and adheres to the (CDI) Career Development Institute’s Code of Ethics.
The standard hours of work are between 8.30am to 5pm but candidates must be flexible to work outside of these hours to cover events such as open evenings, early morning or evening careers appointments and external events when required to do so.
The role will require you to embed the college’s values; Respect, Integrity, Collaboration, High Expectations and Responsibility.
