Job Description

Grade UE06: 34,610 - 39,906 per annum

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences/Business School/Admissions, Marketing and Alumni Team

Full time: 35 hours per week

Fixed term contract: 12 months

We are looking for a Marketing & Recruitment Officer within the University of Edinburgh Business School, to cover a maternity leave period.


This post is advertised as full-time (35 hours per week). We are open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working. Most of the team currently works three days from home and two from the office.

The Opportunity:

Each September we welcome new postgraduate students to the Business School. Currently we have just under 900 postgraduate students representing around 70 different nationalities studying our 13 taught Masters and 2 MBA programmes.


The efforts of the team, including this role, are instrumental in delivering activity that raises awareness of our postgraduate degree programmes and enables us to meet our student recruitment targets. We are looking for someone who, in conjunction with the Student Recruitment Manager, can lead on many aspects of the student recruitment and marketing activity that will attract and convert well qualified applicants in order to meet the student recruitment objectives.


This is your opportunity to join a thriving school with a mission to create and share knowledge through research and education to make meaningful change for people, organisations and the environment.


For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Michael Chambers, Student Recruitment Manager by email on: Michael.chambers@ed.ac.uk

Your skills and attributes for success:

HNC/HND or equivalent level qualification plus relevant work experience in a similar role Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal) and at ease when dealing with a wide range of stakeholders including prospective students from a wide range of countries, current students, and colleagues both professional services and academic. Ability to plan, prioritise, take initiative and find proactive solutions, contribute new ideas to projects, work unsupervised, under pressure and multitask effectively. Strong IT skills across a wide range of programmes including MS office (particularly PowerPoint), online meeting platforms like Zoom/Teams, and other applications (for example, EventBrite, DotDigital, SharePoint) Attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills.

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Application Information

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

A competitive salary An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our

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Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.


Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our

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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is

5

th

September 2025.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.


Interviews will be held

on the 16

th

September 2025.