Student Recruitment Assistant

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Make a difference, every day, to the lives of our students.

About You

A self-motivated individual with outstanding planning, innovation and communication skills, you will have attention to detail and the ability to work to strict deadlines. You will be able to work collaboratively as part of a team and work well on your own initiative with limited supervision.

Excellent presentation skills and a creative approach to developing and delivering engaging presentations for large groups of people will ensure that you quickly establish yourself as a key member of our supportive team.

About The Role

Your main role will be to attend student recruitment events across the UK to promote the University and attract high quality students to undergraduate courses. You will attend HE and Careers Fairs and deliver talks and workshops work in a range of schools and colleges regionally and across the UK in order to increase applications from these institutions. In this role, you will support undergraduate and postgraduate events as well as a range of recruitment activities across the team.

This role also involves extensive travel across the UK.

Rewards/Benefits

You will benefit from 22 days annual leave plus 13 bank holiday and University closure days per annum. We aim to provide our staff with a positive work life balance and have a range of schemes in place to support this. Your continued professional development is as important to us as it is to you and we demonstrate this through our investment in your CPD activity.

You will be automatically enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme and have access to our staff benefits platform, which provides you with discounts across the high street to help you save money on your everyday spending such as supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more. We also offer discounted membership to our state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities.

About Us

Edge Hill University is "A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year" - Times Higher Education.

You’ll be working for a multi award-winning institution that has been named University of the Year in the Educate North Awards (2021) in recognition of our continued commitment to deliver an exceptional student experience and the exceptional progress we have made to deliver investment and innovation over the past 12 months, while placing students at the heart of everything we do.

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

The Times Higher ’University of the Year’ award celebrated our distinct role in "transforming lives" - reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.