Student Recruitment & Marketing Manager

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Unknown)

£37K/yr – £39K/yrManagerPart time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own multi-channel student recruitment marketing from strategy through content and campaigns, driving messaging by subject strengths and market insight while leading a small team and coordinating university-wide events for impact on applications.

  • Campaign & Content Ownership: plan, execute, and measure marketing programs across home and international student segments.
  • Team Leadership & Stakeholder Alignment: manage a small team and align with faculties, schools, and central marketing to hit targets.
  • Cross-University Collaboration & Data-Driven Messaging: partner with academics and offices to surface strengths and tailor communications with SEO and accessibility considerations.

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
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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)
84% recommend to a friend
88% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$5.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
46.2%
Direct
42.4%
Referral
9.6%
Social
0.8%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
284 (3% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$1.7M
Last Raise
$1.6M
Grant, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2023
    Grant
  • Sep 2023
    Grant • $1.6M
  • Feb 2023
    Grant • $80.6K

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