Head of Global Recruitment Office
- Employer
- LANCASTER UNIVERSITY
- Location
- Lancaster, Lancashire (GB)
- Salary
- £51,630 to £58,089
- Closing date
- 6 Jan 2020
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- Job Type
- Senior Management & Heads of Department, Heads of department / Chairs of department
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Lancaster University is one of the UK’s top universities. We are ranked in the top 10 of UK universities across the three major national league tables. Lancaster was awarded the title of University of the Year in 2018, and has recently been named International University of the Year by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020.
The Head of the Global Recruitment Office will play a key role in helping Lancaster meet its worldwide quantitative and qualitative enrolment targets. The post holder will lead a team of professionals that recruit students around the globe. The post is based in Lancaster with staff also located in the South of England, West Africa, India, China and Malaysia.
As the ideal candidate, you will have an excellent customer focused ethos, and your engaging style will enable you to influence a range of stakeholders both internal and external to the University. With your determination to succeed and drive for results, you will demonstrate initiative and lead by example. You will also have the ability to prioritise in a busy operational environment and lead continuous improvement projects from start to completion. Your experience will include the ability to adapt to multiple cultures and effectively lead staff at the Lancaster campus and remotely.
Working collaboratively comes naturally to you and you will quickly develop effective partnerships with school representatives at home and abroad, recruitment agency representatives, university partners, students, parents and others. Internally you will liaise with academic and professional staff across the university.
Your work style is aligned with the ethos and culture at Lancaster including the ability to affect positive change and results as we respond to an ever-evolving higher education landscape.
This is a full time, indefinite role.
We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.
For informal enquiries, please contact Tom Buckley at t.a.buckley@lancaster.ac.uk
Closing date: 11.59pm Monday 6th January 2020
Anticipated Interview Date: Thursday 27th January 2020
Company
Student Wellbeing Services are looking for a highly motivated and organised person for the role of Digital Transition Officer within the Transitions team.
You will contribute to the digital development and co-ordination of a broad package of pre- and post-entry student support programmes, events and services. Support will be focused on improving the transition to University and the student experience of specific Widening Participation (WP) groups including disabled students and mature students. You will need experience of developing on-line training or support, and of developing and designing attractive web content. You will need the ability to work independently as well as the skills to collaborate with colleagues to develop effective schemes and services.You should have experience of collection and analysing data, as well as excellent organisation and problem solving skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines.
You will need to be able to communicate and work with a wide variety of people including students, staff, parents, external organisations and colleagues within Student and Education Services. You should have experience of preparing written reports and the ability to present evaluation data in a meaningful way for a variety of audiences. Knowledge and understanding of disability would be an advantage. Occasionally working out of normal office hours including evening and weekends will be required.
Please note: previous applicants need not apply.
This is a fixed-term, full-time post until the end of July 2020 (with the possibility of further extension).
We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.
- Mini-site
- LANCASTER UNIVERSITY
- Telephone
- +(44)0152465201
- Location
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BAILRIGG
LANCASTER
LANCASHIRE
LA1 4YW
GB
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