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Job Category

Administrative
Vacancy Type

Permanent
Employment Type

Full time
Salary From

£30,805
Salary To

£36,130
Location

Cambridge/Peterborough
Faculty/Prof Service

Corporate Marketing
Ref No
3512
Closing Date
22/06/2025

The UK Schools and Colleges Engagement team, based in the cooperate marketing directorate are recruiting for a Schools and Colleges Engagement Officer (Recruitment) to help deliver our Student Recruitment strategy around the East of England. The officer will be working with schools predominantly throughout Peterborough and Cambridgeshire, with extensive travel in these areas. The ideal candidate will live somewhere in the target region and be confident working independently with a large portfolio of target schools and colleges. You will also attend a weekly office day at our ARU Peterborough campus.
Primary responsibilities will include delivering high-level, high-quality customer service to our stakeholders and partners as well as the successful delivery of a variety of student recruitment events (including taster days, workshops, talks and presentations as some examples) to our target audiences across our campuses.
With a degree, or part qualified in a relevant professional qualification at degree level, or appropriate experience, you will be confident developing, implementing, and maintaining high quality working relationships between ARU and your target schools and colleges. This will include, but is not limited to, organising the logistics of on- and off- campus visits, collecting, handling and utilising data to show impact and reasoning, tracking against budgets and building a strong network of colleagues within ARU and external to support you in the successful delivery of your role. As an innovative, creative thinker you will have an enthusiastic proactive, approach, demonstrating excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills. You must be highly organised, with experience of working in a fast-paced environment, and it is important that you can develop and maintain relationships with a wide range of people from diverse backgrounds.
Based at home, with a weekly office-based day at our ARU Peterborough campus and extensive travel to your schools and colleges within the East of England. Occasional travel between our other campuses and occasional work outside of normal office hours is expected.
Informal enquiries can be made to Alastair Harman, Schools and Colleges Engagement Manager, at Alastair.Harman@aru.ac.uk
Find out more about working with us and how we recruit.
We have an agile working culture and offer an extensive range of benefits including generous holiday entitlement, occupational pension schemes, training and development opportunities, travel to work scheme and a competitive relocation package. Visit our benefits page for full details.