About the Role
Are you experienced in delivering student recruitment events and activities? 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 for Leeds Conservatoire and University Centre Leeds, both part of Luminate Education Group.

PLEASE APPLY FOR THIS ROLE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AS THE ROLE MAY CLOSE BEFORE THE ADVERTISED CLOSING DATE.

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
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.
Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.
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.

We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not forward any unsolicited CVs in relation to any of our advertised roles or speculatively. If we require support with any of our vacancies we will get in touch with agencies directly.

• We do not recognise submissions of unsolicited or speculative CV applications from recruitment agencies.
• We shall not be liable for any fee / commission in the event we employ a candidate that may have been submitted as an unsolicited/speculative application from an uninstructed recruitment agency