Senior International Student Recruitment Officer

About us

UCL's Faculty of Education and Society (IOE) is a world-leading centre for research and teaching in social science and education, ranked number one for education worldwide in the 2022 QS World University Rankings by Subject, for the ninth year running.

UCL Centre for Languages & International Education (CLIE) is a distinct teaching Centre within the IOE. It upholds the values of UCL as a world-leading institution by enabling successful academic transition between diverse educational systems through a range of degree preparation and summer courses.

About the role

The Senior International Student Recruitment Officer will play a vital role in CLIE’s marketing and student recruitment initiatives - with particular responsibility for the UCL Summer School - to ensure the Centre’s stretching targets (student number and financial) are met.

They will develop and deliver the UCL Summer School student recruitment strategy, to expand and develop UCL Summer School’s presence in key markets, with a view to recruiting students onto the Summer School and ensuring targets (student number and financial) are met.

The role holder will have responsibility for, and be the Centre’s expert on, both the overall Summer School market as well as individual key markets (countries). They will develop initiatives and seek new opportunities to establish the Summer School’s position overseas by: delivering and developing individual country recruitment strategies; managing agreements with partner institutions; undertaking ongoing market research; planning and attending recruitment activities both digitally and in-person; planning and executing web-based marketing.

When applying you will be required to attach your CV. Applicants must also provide a cover letter indicating how their qualifications, knowledge and experience fulfil the person specification.

A full job description and person specification as well as application instructions can be accessed by clicking 'Apply' button.

Interviews are scheduled for Friday 24 February 2023 and will be conducted online via MS Teams.

About you

The ideal candidate will hold an undergraduate degree qualification and have substantial relevant international marketing and recruitment experience, along with excellent research, analytical and presentation skills.

Other key requirements for this role include; strong awareness of higher education in the UK, international education issues and factors impacting on student recruitment; experience of developing, delivering, monitoring and refining recruitment strategies; a track record of stimulating new initiatives to promote recruitment; experience of delivering marketing and/or communication campaigns across print, digital and/or web and analysing and reporting on results; experience of writing, editing and proof-reading both print and digital media; accuracy, numeracy and attention to detail; outstanding communication skills, with faultless attention to detail and an ability to write and present to a variety of audiences and platforms; ability to build effective working relationships and networks across an organisation and externally; confident working independently and within a team as well as with staff at all levels of the organisation; outstanding project management skills, deli! vering on time and to budget; committed to providing a responsive and helpful service; willing to try new ideas which may improve outcomes; using evidence and quality data to support approaches.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent.

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