Education Liaison Officer

Interview Date: Monday 11 August 2025

We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for an Education Liaison Officer to join the Student Recruitment Education Liaison department. Working as part of a team of Education Liaison Officers, supported by Education Liaison Assistants and alongside Student Recruitment Assistants and an Events team, the role will involve developing productive relationships with the widest range of individuals and organisations in order to successfully promote existing and emerging provision at the University as well as providing support across the wider Student Recruitment Team.

You will deliver a dynamic recruitment strategy based on sound evidence, business intelligence and best practice. The primary focus of the role is to develop, coordinate and deliver high quality student recruitment strategies and programmes of activity for schools and colleges which will promote the University brand and attract high quality students to the university.

You will work in a range of targeted schools and colleges within the North West area, agreeing and delivering a bespoke programme of activities in order to increase applications from these institutions. You will also support market extension activities across the UK.  

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Chris Mullen, Education Liaison Manager at Chris.Mullen@edgehill.ac.uk. .

About You

As Education Liaison Officer, you will:

• Be a self-starter and be able to work with minimal supervision with the ability to effectively influence others to help in the fulfilment of strategic aims by leading, inspiring and developing effective informal teams and networks
• Hold experience building effective working relationships with a range of key stakeholders
• Have significant experience of working with pre and post 16 students in an educational setting
• A high understanding of the impact of national policy context within which the University’ student recruitment and widening participation work operates
• An in-depth knowledge of issues and barriers relating to the progression of learners into Higher Education
• A positive and flexible approach to work and working hours and willingness to travel extensively throughout the Northwest and further afield, spend periods away from home, and work unsociable hours, including evening and weekends.

It is important to note that the successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced Child disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and that this will form part of the conditions of offer of employment.

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Rewards & Benefits

• A minimum of 36 days annual leave per annum (inclusive of bank holiday and University closure days)
• Discounted membership to our onsite state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities
• Staff benefits scheme, which provides you with discounts across the high street, supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more.
• Employee assistance programme with access to free confidential counselling sessions, legal & financial advice, and health & wellbeing resources
• A wide range of development programmes to enhance your career
• Beautiful award-winning on-campus working environment.
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with our employer contribution of 17.8%

About Us

At Edge Hill University we believe in the life changing opportunities knowledge can create. Since 1885, we’ve been creating access to knowledge for those who may not have had the opportunity to before. 

Today, the effect we have has a far-reaching impact, not just for those who come to study here but for those who work, invest in, and live in our local communities too. So, if you’ve ever wondered if one person can make a difference, simply speak to our alumni, students, and award-winning staff.

Because for us education isn’t about how much you take in. It’s about what you take out into the world. 

Inspiring minds and changing futures since 1885, Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.