Student Recruitment Manager

About the Role

Are you experienced in delivering student recruitment events and activities? Could you build and maintain effective partnerships with key feeder schools and colleges? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, leading teams and delivering outstanding experiences? If so, we have the perfect role for you!

We’re looking for a Student Recruitment Manager to lead, manage, and deliver high-quality student recruitment events and outreach activities for our HE providers Leeds Conservatoire and University Centre Leeds, both part of Luminate Education Group.

What You Will Do

• Lead a team delivering on-campus, online, and external student recruitment events and activities.
• Develop and implement strategic recruitment event and activity plans that align with our marketing and recruitment goals.
• Build and maintain relationships with key schools, colleges, and community groups.
• Provide expert advice on event logistics, strategy, and best practices to internal stakeholders.
• Oversee the recruitment and training of student ambassadors.
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of events, ensuring continuous improvement.
• Manage event budgets, ensuring cost-effective and impactful activities.
• Represent our institutions at external conferences and industry events.
• This role involves some evening and weekend work, plus UK-wide travel.

About You

• Proven experience in event planning and management, ideally within an educational setting.
• Strong people management skills, with experience leading and developing teams.
• Excellent project management abilities, ensuring smooth and efficient event delivery.
• A customer-focused approach, with the ability to engage and inspire prospective students via our marketing material.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience managing budgets and evaluating event success.
• A creative, problem-solving mindset to enhance event innovation.
• A commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in student recruitment.
• A degree (or equivalent qualification) is essential.

For an informal chat about the role, contact Liam Bunce, Head of Marketing and Student Recruitment at liam.bunce@luminate.ac.uk 

Benefits

The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:

Annual leave: 
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays

Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme

CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.

Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa     (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).

Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.

Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.

About Us

Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.

We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.

As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.

Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College, Keighley College, Leeds City College, Leeds Sixth Form College, Pudsey Sixth Form College, Leeds Conservatoire and University Centre Leeds.

SAFEGUARDING

At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in recruitment is key to our Group’s values. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that embraces equality, diversity and inclusion in all its forms, where every candidate is treated with fairness, respect, and equity. 

Our recruitment processes are designed to ensure equal opportunities, remove bias, and promote a diverse talent pool. To find out more about what our commitment to EDI means to us please Click here to learn more about our EDI objectives.

RECRUITMENT AGENCIES

We do not accept unsolicited CVs and applications from agencies and will not be liable for any fee in connection with a candidate that has been submitted speculatively through any agency that has not been expressly instructed for a particular vacancy as part of our Preferred Supplier List.