Student Recruitment and Admissions Co-ordinator

School of Computing and Engineering
Student Recruitment and Admissions Co-ordinator
£13,451 - £15,579 p.a.
Huddersfield
Permanent
Part-time 22.2 hours per week to be worked over 3 days: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
Ref: R3316

Are you an enthusiastic and experienced administrator who enjoys a challenge? Do you enjoy working across a varied range of activities in a busy customer focussed environment?

If you have a proven aptitude for providing professional administration support, working methodically whilst juggling priorities and maintaining excellent levels of customer service, this could be an ideal opportunity for you.

We are seeking an administrator to join our busy, customer focussed Marketing and Recruitment team to play a key role in the successful recruitment and conversion of students from enquiry through application to enrolment. This newly created position will play a pivotal role in ensuring the rapid turnaround of our taught course enquiries and applications as well as co-ordinating the Applicant Visit Days and applicant interview arrangements,

You will need to be flexible in your approach both in terms of activities and working hours as this role will involve working weekends and occasional evenings (please read the recruitment pack for further information).

As Student Recruitment and Admissions Co-ordinator you will:

• Co-ordinate the administrative processes to ensure successful recruitment and admission of undergraduate, and postgraduate taught students to the School.
• Liaise with prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students to provide a professional and welcoming service encouraging them to enrol with the School
• Plan and co-ordinate logistical arrangements for the delivery of recruitment events including Applicant Visit Days, interviews, Postgraduate Fairs, etc. 

To be successful in this role you will have*:

• Recent experience of working within a busy, customer facing administrative team and using a database.
• Proven organisational skills, able to manage several projects at once, overcoming challenges and delivering confidently to deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills and a friendly and approachable personality.
• A degree or equivalent training/work based experience and good standards of literacy and numeracy.
• Excellent computer skills with experience of using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).

If you fit the above description, we want to hear from you. *Please pay close attention to the recruitment pack information and use the online application form to explain how your knowledge, skills and experience match the full Person Specification for the role.

Closing Date: 15 January 2018

Interview Date: 14 February 2018

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