Student Recruitment Officer - School of Art and Design Cardiff, Wales
Job description
The Opportunity
The University's Marketing, Communications and Student Recruitment department is responsible for raising the profile and actively promoting Cardiff Met locally, nationally and internationally. We deliver strategic communications, brand, marketing and student recruitment activities to ensure a consistent One Cardiff Met approach across all internal and external activity that aligns with the University’s values, behaviours and strategic objectives. We are a forward thinking, innovative and creative professional department with extensive experience across all areas and a commitment to developing individuals and ensuring maximum impact is gained from all marketing and external relations activities.
This is a key post that will contribute to the ambitions of the University’s new Strategic Plan 2030. To be actively involved in the delivery of student recruitment promotional initiatives in order to fulfill the unit’s strategic aims and objectives and student recruitment targets.
What you'll do
- Create and manage new and existing relationships with key feeder schools and colleges within a specified geographical area in order to increase applications to the university. To build a targeted comms plan to your geographical area.
- Design and deliver a creative and informative menu of Higher Education awareness presentations to increase applications to Cardiff Metropolitan University.
- Generate and manage bookings and deliver a series of presentations in feeder schools and colleges to include the higher education process, personal statements and finance.
- Proactively input into and deliver the student recruitment annual communications plan to all schools and colleges in the UK. To design and build a series of promotional e-newsletters to schools and colleges to raise awareness of Cardiff Metropolitan University’s profile.
- Design, organise and deliver a series of higher education awareness on campus recruitment events to increase applications to Cardiff Metropolitan University in line with the strategic growth target.
What we are looking for
- Highly knowledgeable in higher education, the post holder will need to be extremely familiar with Cardiff Mets programme of courses and all other direct and non-direct routes to Higher Education.
- Proven experience in presenting to audiences of all sizes and the ability and skillset to adapt the content and tone of delivery depending upon the audience. Creative with a passion for helping to reach a student’s full potential by explaining and promoting HE opportunities and Cardiff Met’s offering both off and on campus.
- Highly organised and efficient, the post holder will often work in schools and colleges therefore the ability to be organised and prepared is paramount.
Why join Cardiff Metropolitan University
In 2020, the University was named The Sunday Times ‘Welsh University of the Year 2021’; in 2021 it became the Times Higher Education ‘UK and Ireland University of the Year 2022’; and in 2022 it was ranked the top university in the UK in the People and Planet Green League.
In addition, the University offers highly competitive terms and conditions including:
- Annual leave of 25 days, rising to 30 days after 1 years’ service, plus 12 bank holiday / concessionary days (pro rata if part time).
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme with generous contributions.
- Flexible and remote working opportunities.
- Excellent family friendly policies.
- Award winning sports and fitness facilities with subsidised membership, plus subsidised physiotherapy/complementary therapy/sports massage.
- Access to all library facilities.
- Salary sacrifice schemes including cycle to work.
- Free family access to our independent specialist wellbeing support provider, Health Assured.
If you would like to talk with us about this opportunity please contact Hanna Kenny, Interim Student Recruitment Manager, [email protected]
Should a high volume of applications be received, we may need to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage you to apply as early as possible.
The University is committed to creating a highly inclusive culture. We offer family friendly and flexible working arrangements and a range of staff networks, forums and events to support and develop our people. We warmly welcome applications from those traditionally underrepresented in the higher education sector.
Further information
Please read our Candidate Pack or visit our staff recruitment website for information about working for us, our culture, benefits, work-life balance and our career progression and development opportunities.
