Regional Recruitment Manager (East Asia)

University of the Arts London (UAL) is seeking a Regional Recruitment Manager to play a pivotal role driving the university's student recruitment efforts across East Asia.

Based in Hong Kong, the successful candidate will take a lead role in managing student recruitment activities, creating coordinated, data-led marketing and recruitment plans, and managing networks of agents and school relationships.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Developing, implementing and evaluating student recruitment strategies, targeting international priority markets, with a focus on South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong.
• Working with colleagues across Student Marketing, Recruitment and Admissions to produce coordinated recruitment plans across the full range of channels (e.g. direct recruitment, agent recruitment, digital channels, feeder institutions and alumni engagement, etc.).
• Managing an international recruitment budget, monitoring the impact of recruitment activities and ensuring return against market investment.
• Acting as an ambassador for UAL at education fairs, school visits, and other recruitment events across the region and maintaining a strong knowledge of all programmes offered by UAL and fully conversant with the University’s entry requirements, admissions policies and procedures.
• Fostering and maintaining strong relationships within our agent network.
• Line Management of the Student Recruitment Marketing Executive (China) post holder.

What we are looking for
All candidates must have the right to live and work in Hong Kong.

The successful candidate will have experience of working in the higher education sector (ideally in a UK institution), with proven experience of using market intelligence and data to develop and implement targeted student recruitment plans in international markets.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage with a diverse range of stakeholders, are essential, in addition to strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Experience of managing relationships with agents and/or feeder institutions is equally important, as is fluency in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, with the ability to communicate confidently in all languages.

Experience of people management, including objective-setting, performance review and supporting others with change is also a key requirement for this role.

What we offer
UAL is a world-renowned institution that is at the forefront of creative education. We are committed to providing our employees with a supportive and rewarding work environment. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of benefits, including:

• Generous annual leave, and 2 days off to volunteer plus bank holidays.
• Group staff benefits and pension scheme.
• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
• Flexible working arrangements and hybrid work model.
• Access to a range of online learning resources.

For further details and to apply please click the ‘Apply’ button.

Closing date: 30 March 2026 23:55.

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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