Student Recruitment Officer - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Student Recruitment Officer

Grade UE06:
£31,396 - £36,024 per annum

Student Recruitment and Admissions

Full time, 35 hours per week
**Fixed term contract: 24 months

We are looking to recruit a Student Recruitment Officer, within our Student Recruitment and Admissions team (SRA) at the University of Edinburgh.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), and is fixed-term for 24 months.

The Opportunity:

This offers an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and creative individual wishing to further their career in student recruitment in a varied and stimulating role.

You will work as part of a team to design and deliver recruitment activity to meet the University's strategic recruitment objectives, focusing on the UK undergraduate market.

Your skills and attributes for success:

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and experience presenting to a range of audiences
in-person and online.
A strong customerfocus and ability to be sensitive to the needs of potential students from diverse backgrounds.
Excellent organisational skills, and the ability to work on own initiative and to prioritise and meet tight deadlines.
Ability to adapt to changes to workload and commitments.
An understanding of current UK undergraduate higher education issues, including widening participation.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme
, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more.

Click to access our
staff benefits page (opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.

Further information is available on our
right to work webpages (opens new browser tab)

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role.

International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

**Key dates to note