Marketing Manager (Student Recruitment)

Newcastle, Newry, Mourne and Down, UK (On-site)

£37K/yr – £39K/yrMid LevelPart time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end student recruitment marketing with data-informed messaging and cross-university coordination for home and international undergrad and postgrad segments.

  • Campaign planning and evaluation to support application generation and conversion.
  • Content creation and messaging informed by market insight and SEO principles across digital and print channels.
  • Lead a small marketing team and coordinate with Academic Schools and Central Marketing to meet recruitment targets.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead, develop, implement and evaluate effective student recruitment marketing plans to attract and convert home and international, undergraduate and postgraduate students
  • Lead, plan, deliver and evaluate student recruitment marketing campaigns/activities, reporting on their impact for supporting application generation/conversion and ensuring best use of resource and value for money
  • Commission and oversee a range of data analysis and market intelligence/research activities to inform product development, marketing planning and messaging
  • Work with academic colleagues/current students to identify subject strengths and develop messaging for use in marketing collateral and campaigns
  • Plan and oversee the development of content for use across a variety of channels (digital and print) ensuring it is informed by market insight, engaging and employs SEO principles and accessibility in order to maximise reach
  • Act as the point of contact for an Academic School in the delivery of marketing activities by providing expert professional advice and guidance to support with meeting student recruitment targets
  • Act as the Faculty lead on cross-University marketing projects/activities including attendance at planning meetings, member of steering groups/workstream committees and updating Faculty colleagues - ensuring actions are completed to specified deadlines
  • Manage and develop a small team which involves setting objectives, overseeing and reviewing workload and progress, identifying training needs and carrying out development reviews
  • Represent the Faculty and University at student recruitment events where appropriate. This may involve liaison with colleagues in Central Marketing, UK Student Recruitment and the International Office to ensure activity join up
  • Work closely with colleagues across the University to ensure consistency, coherence and impact of approach across all student recruitment marketing activity
  • You will be required to be flexible and adaptable as priorities and responsibilities may change as the Faculty, Academic Schools and the University respond to sector changes. The post holder will be expected to undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade as requested

Requirements

  • Experience of working in a marketing and/or student recruitment role
  • Experience of developing and implementing marketing plans and campaigns
  • Experience of using data to report on marketing activities to showcase impact/make recommendations for improvements
  • Experience of managing/supervising a team of marketing and/or student recruitment professionals
  • Excellent experience in creating accessible and impactful content with strong copywriting, editing and proof-reading skills
  • Outstanding stakeholder management experience with the ability to lead multiple projects at the same time and develop effective relationships with colleagues
  • Degree or equivalent level qualification or significant vocational experience

Nice to have

  • Chartered Institute of Marketing qualification or other relevant professional marketing qualification
  • Experience of working in the higher education sector within a marketing or student recruitment role is advantageous

Benefits

  • excellent benefits
  • generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more
  • great pension schemes
  • a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you
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Newcastle University is a Russell Group university in the North East of England with a thriving international community of some 27,750 students from over 130 countries worldwide.As a member of the Russell Group of research intensive universities we have a world-class reputation for research excellence in the fields of medicine, science and engineering, social sciences and the humanities.Our academics are sharply focused on responding to the major challenges facing society today. Our research and teaching are world-leading in areas as diverse as health, culture, technology and the environment.We are committed to providing our students with excellent, research-led teaching delivered by dedicated and passionate teachers. Newcastle is among the top 20 universities in the country for our employment rate with 95% of our graduates going on to employment or further study, more than three quarters in graduate-level jobs. We are also one of the top 20 universities targeted by graduate employers in the UK.

Founded in 1963
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, GBR
10K employees (284 in marketing)