Student Marketing and Recruitment Manager

London, UK (On-site)

£44K/yr – £53K/yrManagerContract

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own and deliver student recruitment initiatives across colleges, leading events, partnerships, and team management to drive awareness and conversions.

  • Lead planning and delivery of recruitment activity
  • Manage events budget and staff leadership
  • Build awareness of Colleges in the UK and international markets

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • lead the planning and delivery of student recruitment activity across the colleges
  • From Open Days, College Tours and Offer Holder Events to online events and wider recruitment activity, you’ll create engaging experiences that help prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students understand what studying at UAL could offer them
  • work closely with course teams, marketing colleagues and teams across the University to ensure recruitment activity connects effectively with our digital promotional and conversion campaigns
  • use insight and performance data to understand what works,
  • manage the recruitment events budget,
  • develop messaging and content for key channels,
  • help build awareness of our Colleges across UK and international markets
  • manage two members of staff and a team of Student Ambassadors supporting our recruitment events

Requirements

  • Experience of successfully leading and delivering events
  • Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities and resources effectively
  • A confident communicator who can adapt your approach for different audiences, build positive relationships with prospective students and colleagues, and work collaboratively across a complex organisation
  • Experience of motivating and managing others
  • Comfortable using data to assess performance and identify opportunities for improvement
  • A practical, solutions-focused approach to work

Preferred

  • Knowledge of art and design, creative arts higher education or the wider creative and cultural industries would be an advantage.

Benefits

  • UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks.
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About UAL University of the Arts London (UAL) is Europe’s largest specialist art and design university. Its unique creative community is made up of 6 renowned Colleges, each with its own world-class reputation: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL is the world’s number 2 University for Art and Design in the QS World University Rankings® 2022. Offering an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts, UAL is the main talent pipeline to the UK’s creative industries. Home to a diverse community of over 21,000 students from 129 countries, UAL has a track record for launching and furthering careers. Our graduates can be found in every part and at every level of the creative and cultural sectors, from heads of global business to self-employed practitioners, and on shortlists for awards ranging from the Turner Prize to the Oscars. Building on UAL’s association with some of the most original thinkers in the arts, students and staff are inspired to challenge convention, generate new ideas and nurture talent. Home to award-winning staff and students for more than a century, UAL’s Colleges are at the forefront of learning, creativity and practice in their specialist subjects. This close-knit College structure offers opportunities for learning and enquiry for people at all stages of their creative development.Working here Everyone’s identity matters at UAL and we are made up of all kinds of people - designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers - from all over the world. Together in London, the world’s creative capital, our talented and diverse community forms a network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Find out more about working at UAL, our culture and available jobs: www.jobs.arts.ac.uk

Founded in 1986
London, England, GBR
5.6K employees (826 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

£44K/yr – £53K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
428 (8% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$54.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
49.9%
Direct
42.4%
Referral
5.5%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.6K
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Student Marketing and Recruitment Manager

University of the Arts London · London, UK · On-site