About Flinders

Our bold vision, captured in our Strategic Plan: making a Difference: The 2025 Agenda, is to be internationally recognised as a world leader in research, an innovator in contemporary education, and the source of Australia’s most enterprising graduates.

To realise this ambition, we recently made a significant organisation change to a six College structure with a professional staff and services alignment.

We recognise the key to our success is exceptional people and we’re seeking an outstanding individual to join the team of our transformed university.

Employment Type:

Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Position Summary

Fixed-term, full-time available until 20 April 2022

Compensation Grade:
Higher Education Officer Level 7

Salary Range:
$86,821 - $96,107 pa

Reporting to:
Senior Manager, International Recruitment

Portfolio of the Vice-President and Pro Vice-Chancellor (International)

Under broad direction, the Country Recruitment Manager makes a high-level contribution ensuring that the University meets its strategic objectives and targets by taking primary responsibility for managing all aspects of marketing and international student recruitment for an assigned geographical region.

The position may require you to undertake interstate and international travel as required, including an expectation of working outside normal hours with restrictions on taking leave during peak work periods.

Key Position Responsibilities

The Country Recruitment Manager is accountable for:

• Taking responsibility for developing and managing international recruitment plans and activities for designated recruitment markets. This includes ensuring that recruitment initiatives and resources are measured, evaluated and aligned to achieving commencing international student recruitment targets.
• Contributing to the development of new initiatives that are aligned to market in order to raise the profile of the University and attract prospective international students to study at the University.
• Developing and maintaining excellent collaborative working relationships with strategic partners and external stakeholders including agents, offshore partners, government ministries and scholarship bodies and internal stakeholders including College and other university units; Key to this will be engagement with education recruitment agents and managing their recruitment performance.
• Responsibility for high end customer service delivery to clients and relevant stakeholders that are positioned to promote the University within the international student recruitment arena;
• Professionally and appropriately represent the University at relevant events (forums, international recruitment events & roadshows, etc.) at local, national and international levels;
• Where appropriate, provide direction, advice and advisory support to in-country representatives;
• Facilitating and managing the operational budgets for the country/ies recruitment activity in a timely and efficient manner;
• Ensuring compliance with the ESOS Act and the National Code and with other relevant legislation related to marketing and recruitment;
• Any other responsibilities in line with the level of the role as assigned by the Supervisor and/or the University.

Key Position Capabilities

• Completion of a degree and extensive experience, preferably in the marketing area, or an equivalent combination of extensive relevant experience and/or education/training.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working in an international environment preferably international student recruitment and promoting international education.
• Demonstrated high-level interpersonal and oral communications skills, including cross cultural communication skills; evidence of capacity to represent the University overseas, and develop and maintain productive relationships with strategic partners.
• High level written communications skills including the ability to write reports, discussion papers and business plans.
• Highly developed oral communication and interpersonal skills including demonstrated ability to develop and maintain productive relationships with strategic partners.
• An ability to provide innovate solutions to business problems and create new business opportunities.
• Demonstrated ability to work with complex situations with a high level of autonomy in an international environment.
• Demonstrated experience working in a team and performance-based environment.
• Demonstrated experience in effectively managing a budget.
• Demonstrated high level experience in the use of technologies and an ability to provide innovate solutions to business problems and create new business opportunities.
• Demonstrated high-level cross-cultural communication skills and experience in working with people from other cultures.

For application enquiries please contact: Mr Matt Beazley

Pursuant to Child Safety (Prohibited Persons) Act 2016 (SA) this position has been deemed prescribed. It is an inherent requirement of the position that the successful candidate maintains current Working With Children Check which is satisfactory to the University.

Information for Applicants: You are required to provide a suitability statement of no more than three pages, addressing the key capabilities of the position as outlined above. In addition, you are required to upload your CV.

A valid National Police Certificate which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position.

We are seeking to increase the diversity to improve equal opportunity outcomes for employees, and therefore we encourage female applicants, people with a disability and/or from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders descent to apply.

Please note, late applications and applications sent via agencies will not be accepted.

Applications Close 11:59pm:

07 Feb 2021