UK Student Recruitment Officer

Location: Hybrid Working Vacancy terms: Full time or job share considered, Permanent Hours per week: 37.5 Advert closes midnight on: 17 Jan 2024 About the role If you thrive from having a varied workload, whilst having the opportunity to engage and work with young people, parents, teachers, advisers as well as academic and support colleagues in the University, then this is the role for you. The UK Student Recruitment Officers are based within the Future Students Office and lead on the recruitment of UK students nationwide. The role encompasses home Student Recruitment and outreach, with the percentages involved reviewed bi-annually based on performances, market insight and candidate preference. Due to the remit of the role and make-up of our current team, candidates are required to be based in, or within commutable distance from our main campus in Leicester. You’ll primarily be responsible for achieving the recruitment targets for an assigned workload, in line with corporate objectives and Access and Participation Targets, and you’ll even have the opportunity to attend and support events across the UK representing Leicester at exhibitions, visiting schools, colleges as well as key partners and educational representatives in market to present a positive image of the university. About you To be successful in this role, you will be a strong communicator, with excellent interpersonal skills. Combined with a relevant degree, you will have experience in working within 13-19 education, further education or higher education. To excel in this role you need to have the ability to analyse data, as well as the skills to write reports, correspondence and other documentation. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 because the appointee will have substantial access to young people and/or vulnerable adults. Therefore, an appointment to this post will be subject to checking and appropriate clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The successful applicant for this post will, therefore, be required to give consent for the University to check with the DBS for the existence and content of any criminal record in the form of an Enhanced Disclosure. Information received from the DBS and the police will be kept in strict confidence and will be destroyed once the University is satisfied in this regard. Additional information For information enquiries, please contact Elliot Newstead, Head of UK Student Recruitment and Outreach on elliot.newstead@leicester.ac.uk. Applications for job share will be considered. The University of Leicester has been changing the world, and changing people’s lives, for 100 years. When you join us, you’ll become part of a community of Citizens of Change, which includes not only our staff and our current students but also thousands of Leicester graduates around the world. As a diverse and forward-thinking employer, we embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do. That includes not just our core missions of teaching and research, but also our support for staff, students and our local community through our values of Inspiring, Impactful and Inclusive. We’re committed to the wellbeing of all our staff and to the sustainability of our environment, on our campus and beyond. We offer a competitive salary package, excellent pension scheme and a generous annual leave allowance, along with opportunities to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.