College Admissions Tutor (School of Design)

The opportunity

Are you a Design academic with a passion for higher education admissions and student recruitment? Chelsea College of Arts is seeking to appoint to their team of College Admissions Tutors. This team plays a key role in shaping the future of our creative community, engaging with applicants, course teams and supporting the recruitment process.

As a College Admissions Tutor, you’ll play a central role in processing undergraduate and postgraduate applications to the School of Design, providing key academic insight to ensure that the School continues to recruit skilled and ambitious creatives looking to deepen their knowledge and enhance their skills.

You’ll oversee and support the academic decision-making process, ensuring that offers are made to meet intake targets. This includes providing academic oversight for offer making, acting as the lead contact for student recruitment within the school, and managing fractional College Admissions Tutors. Your duties will also involve reviewing applications and portfolios, making decisions on offers, rejections, and cross referrals, and supporting interviews.

In addition to your admissions responsibilities, you’ll also support the wider Student Marketing and Recruitment Team in promoting undergraduate and postgraduate study.

About you

To succeed in this role, you’ll need a higher degree (e.g. MA) in a Design field and will have previous experience in student recruitment or admissions within the higher education sector. Teaching and learning experience, or equivalent industry experience in your subject areas of expertise, is also essential.

You’ll possess strong teamwork, organisational, and management skills, with the ability to build effective teams, networks, or communities of practice and foster constructive collaboration across teams.

This is an exciting and varied role that offers an excellent opportunity to further your career at a world leading arts institution, while contributing directly to enhancing the student experience and maintaining excellent standards of customer service.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

For further details and to apply please click the apply button.

Closing date: 18th February 2026, 23:55.

Should you have any questions about the role, please contact Tim Wilson / t.l.wilson@arts.ac.uk

Should you have any questions about the application process or require reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Christine Crouch/ccw.staffrecruit@arts.ac.uk

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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