Student Recruitment Brand Manager

UK

£38K/yr – £46K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 3 months ago

Job Summary

Own brand governance and cross-campus recruitment storytelling, aligning creative execution with international growth and consistent identity.

  • Guard the brand across home and Mumbai campuses, ensuring on-strategy creative briefs and sign-offs.
  • Bridge marketing and creative execution by shaping briefs and coordinating with Creative Services and agencies.
  • Lead publication development and messaging systems to keep outputs on-brand and strategically aligned.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Brand advocacy, guardianship, and consultancy across all home and international recruitment activities at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
  • Ensure absolute brand consistency and effectiveness, whether supporting local campaigns, our strategic recruitment partners, or the distinct identity of our overseas campus in Mumbai.
  • Act as the vital bridge between marketing and creative execution, you will streamline workflows with our central Creative Services team and external agencies.
  • Oversee the development of student recruitment publications, manage team messaging matrices, review briefs, and act as the first point of sign-off for creative assets.
  • Ensure all marketing outputs are highly impactful, on-brand, and strategically aligned.

Requirements

  • Brand Guardianship: Proven experience in brand and campaign management, or a role where brand guardianship was a primary focus.
  • Creative Critique: An exceptional understanding of visual and verbal identities, alongside the ability to constructively challenge colleagues and agencies to protect brand standards.
  • Briefing & Workflows: Experience working directly with creative teams/agencies and translating complex marketing goals into high-quality creative briefs.
  • Project Management: A proven track record of managing a large volume of concurrent marketing projects, meeting tight deadlines without losing quality.
  • Data & Digital Skills: The ability to gather, analyse, and report on complex data using digital technologies.
  • Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a collaborative mindset and the ability to take ownership of distinct projects.

Preferred

  • International Awareness (Desirable): Experience working within international markets or overseeing brand identity for overseas campuses and partnerships is highly desirable.

Benefits

  • family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums, campus facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.
  • We offer family friendly, flexible working arrangements, with forums and inclusive facilities to support our staff.
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UNIVERSITY OF YORK

A member of the prestigious Russell Group, we are a dynamic, research-intensive university.We work collaboratively in partnership with institutions across the world to develop life-saving discoveries and new technologies that tackle some of the most pressing global challenges. Our 30+ academic departments undertake groundbreaking research that underpins our inspiring teaching and challenges students to dream big, think critically and change the world.

Founded in 1963
Heslington, England, GBR
7K employees (200 in marketing)

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£38K/yr – £46K/yr

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Student Recruitment Brand Manager

UNIVERSITY OF YORK · UK