Background
External Relations is the division responsible for delivering our University to the world and prides itself in seizing opportunities that will enhance the profile and reputation of the University. We engage with many different audiences to build purposeful relationships internally, locally, nationally and internationally. We enable those who wish to apply to study on our courses to make informed choices. We recognise that we are strongest when we work together and take pride in upholding our core values of being ambitious, innovative, open, collaborative and responsible.
Role Summary
The Associate Director, International Student Recruitment will be responsible for the development, leadership, and execution of the University’s international student recruitment strategy. This senior position will lead an internationally located, high-performing team and work collaboratively with senior leadership, academic departments, global partners and other key stakeholders to attract high-quality students from around the world and ultimately meet our ambitious recruitment targets.
Person Specification
- Significant experience in international student recruitment within higher education.
- Proven track record of developing and delivering successful recruitment strategies across diverse international markets, based on data and insight.
- Excellent leadership and people management skills with experience in leading high-performing teams.
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of international market dynamics and student decision-making processes.
- Familiarity with CRM and student recruitment platforms (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce).
- Exceptional interpersonal, communication, influencing and negotiation skills with an ability to build relationships across cultures and sectors.
- Proven experience of working across different international markets, and demonstrating strong cultural awareness.
- Knowledge and experience of managing large and complex budgets.
- Strong planning and project management skills.
- Ability to travel internationally as required.
- Educated to Degree level (or equivalent level qualifications), or extensive experience of working in a complex organisation plus substantial relevant managerial experience.
- Ability to exercise a substantial degree of independent professional responsibility and discretion.
- Ability to lead and manage diverse groups of staff through intermediate managers.
- Excellent literacy and numeracy, with the ability to write for different audiences and for different purposes, and to produce and analyse complex source material, information and data.
- Actively promotes equality and diversity to internal and external stakeholders.
- Able to use data to identify equality and diversity issues.
- Experience of developing interventions to address equality and diversity issues
Informal enquiries can be made to Carla Amos, email: c.j.amos@bham.ac.uk
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Valuing excellence, sustaining investment
We value diversity and inclusion at the University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working
£57,422 to £66,537 with potential progression once in post to £86,760, Grade 9
