Student Recruitment Officer (UK and UK International)

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £32,546 to £35,116 with potential progression once in post to £39,355

Role Summary

The Undergraduate Student Recruitment team travel across the UK visiting schools, colleges and higher education exhibitions to ensure that prospective students, their parents, carers and teachers, have a full understanding of what the University of Birmingham has to offer. The team are also responsible for organising events such as open days, offer holder visit days and conferences for teachers and advisers.

The International Recruitment team provide an efficient, culturally sensitive and customer-oriented service in the recruitment of international students. They also develop strategic international partnerships to grow the number of international students studying at the University.

The post holder will work across two teams with approximately 50% of activity based within the UK Student Recruitment team and 50% based in the International Recruitment team. They will play a key role in schools and colleges engagement and in the recruitment of international students studying in UK schools. They will be expected to carry out a wide range of activities including visiting schools and colleges to deliver presentations and exhibit at higher education evenings, organising visits onto campus, and representing the University at HE exhibitions. The role will require working some evenings and weekends as appropriate to support the needs of the business.

The post holder will be expected to provide project management support for a number of strategic projects within both teams. They will contribute to the development and implementation of a suite of recruitment and marketing activities that are effective in a changing external recruitment environment.

Main Duties

Approximately 50% of this post is to support the UK Student Recruitment and Marketing Team in the delivery, development and implementation of activities including:

• Representing and promoting the University at higher education events in schools and colleges across the UK. This will involve delivering presentations to large groups of school/college students and their parents/carers on a variety of higher education topics and exhibiting at university fairs to provide individual advice and guidance to students and their parents/carers about the University’s courses, services and opportunities. This will amount to around 35 events off campus per annum but will vary dependent on the business need.
• Organising and managing programmes of activity for schools/colleges visiting the University campus. This will involve liaising with academics and other University services, leading and supervising activities and managing student ambassadors assisting with visits.

Person Specification

• Educated to degree level or equivalent 
• Previous experience in a relevant role. Significant experience in student recruitment and/or higher education marketing will be advantageous 
• Experience of working with sixth form students/their parents
• Knowledge and understanding of the UK’s secondary education system, higher education system and UCAS
• A high standard of written and oral communication with an ability to present to large audiences with confidence

Informal enquiries to Katherine Pagett, email: k.a.pagett@bham.ac.uk 

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