Senior Admissions - Cambridge, United Kingdom - King's College Cambridge

King's College Cambridge

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior Admissions & Outreach Officer

About Us
King's is a constituent College of the University of Cambridge.

Founded in 1441 by Henry VI as a place of education, religion, learning and research, the College comprises around 130 Fellows, 650 undergraduate and postgraduate students and 275 non-academic staff.

The College is internationally recognised as a leading academic institution, boasting among its former students and Fellows, no fewer than eight Nobel laureates, including Patrick Blackett, Frederick Sanger,

Sydney Brenner, Philip Noel-Baker and Oliver Hart, as well as influential figures such as Alan Turing, E.M.

Forster, John Maynard Keynes and Bernard Williams. Among its most prominent living members are the novelists Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie, astronomer Martin Rees, sociologist Anthony Giddens, anthropologist Caroline Humphrey, former chair of the Bank of England Mervyn King, philanthropist David

Sainsbury, molecular biologist Lesley Anne Glover, entrepreneur and computer scientist Hermann Hauser, composers Judith Weir (Master of the King's Music) and Errollyn Wallen, the first black woman to have a composition performed at The Proms.

The undergraduate and postgraduate community is vibrant and diverse, priding itself on a friendly and inclusive atmosphere combining academic commitment with political engagement and a lively social and artistic scene.

King's has long been leading the way in undergraduate recruitment from the state sector. The

College works very hard to attract the best applicants, regardless of background, and to encourage academically outstanding students from underrepresented communities to study at Cambridge.

In 2018 it launched a transformational Student Access and Support Initiative designed to improve equality of access and opportunity, and to help combat entrenched social and economic disadvantage.

The Role

We are seeking a highly organised individual to join our Admissions team supporting the Senior Tutor and the Admissions Tutor in administering undergraduate admissions.

This includes coordinating the operation of the Admissions team as well as consolidating and developing the College's existing recruitment, outreach and access activities.

Key Responsibilities

Share responsibility for undergraduate admissions, working closely with the Admissions Tutor
Support the Admissions Tutor during the admissions round as required in:

The collection, organisation and preparation of paperwork;
Coordinating and organising Fellows, Directors of Studies and Student Helpers and facilitating the smooth running of the interview process;
Providing feedback to schools regarding individual applicants and the Admissions process more generally;
assisting in the collection and analysis of data concerning the admissions rounds.

Send high quality and efficient responses to enquiries from potential undergraduate applicants, parents and schools and offerholders, and to deal with requests for information from other Cambridge colleges, faculties, and Cambridge Admissions Office.
Maintain and develop online admissions information and resources for the 'Study at King's' section of the College website in collaboration with Fellows.
Organise and deliver all practical arrangements for undergraduate open days.
Undertake research in order to keep informed about relevant issues connected with the post.
Initiate and develop contacts and relations with schools in our link areas (Northumberland, Durham, Middlesbrough, York, Hull, East Yorkshire, Reading, West Berkshire, and Wokingham).
Develop and maintain effective presentations and handouts for use in schools.
Organise and undertake visits to schools (involving trips over several days working unsociable hours).
Organise and deliver school visits including overnight stays.
Take part in working groups and committees organised by the CAO, to keep up to date with developments in the collegiate University and be included in intercollegiate decisionmaking processes.
Support the Admissions Tutor in budgeting and forecasting budgets for Admissions and Outreach activities.
Maintain and monitor the social media channels of the admissions and outreach office and develop new material for these channels.
Liaise with and be part of college committees (i.e. communication committee) where relevant to the role.
Liaise with the KCSU regarding their development of studentbased access initiatives.
Provide training for Student Ambassadors and for Fellows and Students involved in the delivery of outreach activities.
Undertake any other reasonable request or duties commensurate with the post.

The Person

Knowledge & experience

Education to degree level or equivalent
Experience of a busy office environment (highly desirable)
Experience in helping with undergraduate open days/ school university visits or teaching experience (highly desirable)
Relevant administrative experience in an educati