Education Liaison and Outreach Assistant

Do you want to join an award-winning Education Liaison and Outreach team? This exciting position will play a pivotal role in engaging students at local schools and colleges to deliver and enhance our recruitment and outreach activity. Organised, with high attention to detail, you will help with the planning, delivery and evaluation of innovative outreach and widening participation activities.

The role of the Education Liaison and Outreach Assistant is key in helping our dedicated team to deliver a portfolio of activities and initiatives that promote Higher Education and employment pathways in innovative and experiential ways.

Social mobility is embedded within Middlesex University’s DNA. We work with underrepresented students in local schools and colleges to support equality of access to higher education. We deliver activities that support students in developing their aspirations, attitudes and academic attainment. The assistant will assist existing and planned work delivering outreach activities with local schools and evaluating the impact on learners as required by the Office for students.

We are looking for someone who enjoys delivering educational activities with young people and who can communicate enthusiastically with potential students, as well as their advisors, parents and carers about all that the University has to offer. It would be an advantage if you have working knowledge of the UK education system including an awareness of current recruitment and access challenges facing the UK Higher Education sector.

You’ll be a team player who is also able to use your own initiative to achieve results. A willingness to travel to various locations in Greater London as well as occasionally across the wider UK is also essential. In return, Middlesex will offer you a platform to develop a broad portfolio of widening participation and evaluation experience plus opportunities to support key marketing activities and develop commercial acumen.

We are a member of Athena SWAN a gender-based charter, the Race Equality Charter, Stonewall Workplace Equality Index and Disability Confident. We have also made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in the role profile.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service certificate. You are therefore required to disclose details of any criminal record. ALL criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings, even if they would otherwise be regarded as spent under this Act must be disclosed, as well as any other information that may have a bearing on your suitability for the post, including pending prosecutions. The University will apply for a DBS certificate before your appointment is confirmed.

For further information or an informal discussion about the role, please contact Jack Du Pille, Education Liaison and Outreach Manager, at j.dupille@mdx.ac.uk

Closing Date: Wednesday 8th February 2023

Interview Date: TBC

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