About the Role
The Global Partnerships and Opportunities Manager (Incoming) is responsible for implementing and (in collaboration with colleagues) developing Queen Mary’s Study Abroad Programme for incoming students enrolling on the Study Abroad Programme, as well as supporting exchange and partnership students coming to Queen Mary.
About You
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, confident individual who is able to work under their own initiative. Skills in relationship management are particularly important given the role requires building effective relationships with numerous external stakeholders. The post holder will need to work across the university with both academic and professional services staff to ensure we are well positioned to maximise our Study Abroad and Partnership recruitment potential.
About the Department
This role sits within the Global Engagement Office (GEO) which is part of the External Relations Directorate. The GEO’s function is to recruit International Students, promote inward and outward mobility options for students looking for year abroad, semester and short-term study opportunities, lead on Queen Mary’s International Partnership activity and manage relationships with external stakeholders and other sector organisations. Working closely with colleagues across External Relations and our academic Schools on delivery of core objectives within the 2030 Strategy, the Global Engagement Office is comprised of 40 staff based in London, Beijing, Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, Washington, and Lahore.
The Global Partnerships and Opportunities team (GPO) is one half of the Global Engagement Office and manages the university’s network of partner institutions around the world, fostering new education collaborations primarily centered around student mobility, programme to programme articulations and progression agreements and Transnational Education (TNE).
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.
£43,677 to £51,040 per annum
