Admissions Officer

UK College of Business and Computing has a fantastic new opportunity for a Admissions Officer to join the team. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis.

UKCBC is a leading London based vocational educational provider with over 20 years of delivering high quality qualifications across the areas of Business, Computing, Accounting, Health & Social Care amongst others. UKCBC offer career focused programmes which integrate education and professional skills enabling our students to develop and achieve the best of their personal and career potential.

About the Admissions Officer Role:

As our Admissions Officer, the main purpose of your role is to deal with course applications and to provide support when it comes to enrolling prospective students onto a course. Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate several competencies including attention to details, flexibility in approach to work and the ability to manage often and conflicting deadlines. The ability to work under your own initiative and as part of a team demonstrating a high degree of self-motivation is also required.

Hours of work: 40 Hours a week – spread over 5 days (Monday – Saturday) on a rota basis

Key Duties and Responsibilities of our Admissions Officer:

• Responding to both email, written and personal enquiries from potential students, providing detailed responses to their enquiries about the application process, fees and course selection as necessary.
• Providing written and verbal (including telephone) advice and guidance to prospective students, their parent(s) or guardian for all the courses, including advising on procedures for Student Finance applications to avail government funding – tuition loans, maintenance loans and maintenance grants.
• Assisting the Admissions Manager with the overall admissions procedure to ensure that proper correspondence and documentation is received and acknowledged, filed, and that departments are notified as appropriate.
• Assisting with maintaining Admissions Department records - enquiry forms, application forms, assessment sheets, rejected/withdrawn applicant files and other miscellaneous filing.
• Providing cover for other members of the Admissions and Marketing staff.
• Recording all decisions on the UKCBC’s electronic system in line with agreed procedures and service levels.
• Contributing to the monitoring of agreed service levels, including turnaround times, chasing outstanding decisions as required.
• Providing administrative support in setting up interviews and tests where appropriate.
• Undertakng other duties as determined by the Admissions Manager.

The above list of duties is neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake duties as may be reasonably expected within the scope and grading of the post and within the competencies of the post holder. All Staff are required to be professional, supportive and flexible in line with their position, department and the college.

What we’re looking for in our Admissions Officer:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent  (Desirable)
• Experience working within a customer focused environment
• Twelve months of experience working in Higher Education is desirabl
• Familiarity with Student Finance and Student Loans Company procedures would be an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written

If you would like to join us as our Admissions Officer, then please click ‘apply’ today – we’d love to hear from you!