WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

In return for your dedication and hard work, you will benefit from ongoing opportunities for personal and professional development, as well as the following key benefits:

• Opportunity for hybrid working.
• Generous annual leave entitlement of 40 days (including bank holidays and closure periods).
• An attractive direct contribution pension scheme, or the option to retain LGPS for existing and previous members.
• Wellbeing advice and support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Birmingham City University’s Marketing and Communications department is looking for a talented and experienced Senior Student Engagement and Recruitment Officer. Reporting to the Student Engagement and Recruitment Manager, the role involves proactively promoting BCU to prospective student audiences, in schools and colleges and at on-campus events, with the aim of increasing awareness of the University and driving applications.
The post holder will develop close working relationships with faculty academics as well as school and college partners – being an account manager for multiple school and college partners. They will organise and deliver high quality recruitment events on campus, as well as work with academics to deliver engaging content to prospective students. In addition to this, the role will require cross-collaborative working with other teams within the department to ensure a joined up approach to student recruitment.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Education to degree level
• Strong project and event management skills
• Previous experience in a similar and relevant role
• Experience of working in a complex organisation, with multiple internal and external stakeholders, and the ability to influence them
• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex information to a wide range of stakeholders, including presenting to large groups of prospective students
• Ability to gather information, evaluating programmes and measuring the impact of work undertaken
• Excellent IT skills including MS Office to analyse and present data and reports
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplined team, relating to wider departmental aims and objectives
• Able to travel to events off site and attend out of hours events
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JOIN US IN MAKING A DIFFERENCE AT BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY.

Job Description

ABOUT US

At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.
Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.
Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.

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