Job Description

Role
We are looking to recruit a School and College Recruitment Assistant to join our Student Recruitment Team within Marketing and Communications at DMU. You will enjoy a blend of face to face engagement with potential students at school events alongside desk based administrative/event focussed work. You will be a well organised administrator, confident communicator, able to balance your time effectively in a role that offers a wide variety of tasks and activities and enjoy working in a busy environment.

In schools and at events you will be student facing, engaging primarily with 14-18 year olds, to support them on their future higher education journeys and promote and endorse DMU as a university of choice. On campus and from home you will support our internally focussed School and College Recruitment Officer to plan and deliver on campus events, develop communication plans, engage with internal colleagues and provide a core administrative service to underpin our day to day recruitment activity.

The role is available in a flexible hybrid format with a blend of time working in schools/at events, on campus and from home. Each week will be different and flexibility will be a key skill. The role will be managed and supported by our internally facing School and College Recruitment Officer.

The role will start asap until 29/12/2023

Duties and responsibilities

• Promoting DMU at student recruitment events in schools and colleges
• Supporting School and College Recruitment Officer in planning and delivering wide range of student facing events on the DMU campus
• Manging event operations and logistics
• Attending meetings with internal stakeholders
• Delivering a core administrative service to the wider School and College Recruitment Team (booking hire cars, hotels etc)
• Delivering presentations to in school or on campus audiences as required
• Working flexibly through the student recruitment cycle
• Working in a busy, student recruitment environment
• Evening and weekend work as required during the student recruitment cycle

Skills and experience

• Excellent communication skills, confident presentation skills
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills
• Attention to detail enthusiasm for and ability to promote higher education as a post school/college destination
• Knowledge of Marketing and Student Recruitment (optional)
• Proficient in Microsoft packages including Excel, Word and Outlook.
• Flexible and adaptable
• Enjoy working in a role that varies day to day and utilises a wide range of front facing and back office skills and experience

Location
De Montfort University

Additional information
If you have any questions or would like to know more about the role prior to applying please contact faye.wickham@dmu.ac.uk

Unitemps is acting as an Employment Business, supplying temporary workers, in relation to this vacancy.

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De Montfort University