Schools and Colleges Development Officer - Recruitment

About ARU:

ARU is a global university transforming lives through innovative, inclusive and entrepreneurial education and research. ARU holds a Gold award for the quality of its education, awarded through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).

ARU’s research institutes and four faculties bridge scientific, technical and creative fields.  We deliver impactful research which tackles pressing issues and makes a real difference to our communities.  Our academic excellence has been recognised by the UK’s Higher Education funding bodies, with 16 of our research areas assessed as world leading. We are the largest provider of Nursing, Midwifery, Health and Social Care students in the East of England, and we are also among the UK’s leading universities for degree apprenticeship provision, working with hundreds of employers across the UK.

About the Role:

Within Corporate Marketing, we’re looking for four, full time Development Officers. These roles focus on student recruitment and relationship development with identified schools and colleges in Essex, North London, East London and Hertfordshire/Northamptonshire/Bedfordshire.

Candidates must state their preferred location in the application form. Every effort will be made to match you to your preference but we cannot guarantee this. 

With a degree, or part qualified in a relevant professional qualification at degree level, or appropriate experience, you’ll develop and maintain high quality working relationships between ARU and your Sixth Forms and Colleges. This will include organising the logistics of on- and off- campus visits, collecting and utilising data, tracking against budgets and building a strong network of stakeholders to support you in the successful delivery of your role. You must be highly organised, with experience of working in a fast-paced environment. It’s important that you can develop and maintain relationships with a wide range of people from diverse backgrounds.

Working mainly from home, you'll have regular office-based work and extensive travel to your Sixth Forms and Colleges. You’ll be expected to provide support to officers in other regions as needed. There is occasional travel between campuses, national schools and colleges and occasional work outside of normal office hours is expected.

All travel expenses incurred by the role will be reimbursed in line with ARU policies.

This appointment is subject to an enhanced level children's barred list disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service; https://www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check.

Closing date for applications: Monday 6th May 2024

Face-to-face interviews will take place on the ARU Chelmsford Campus on Wednesday 15 May 2024.

For informal enquiries please email; Schools & Colleges Senior Officer katie.price@aru.ac.uk

Find out more about working with us.

We have an agile working culture and offer an extensive range of benefits including generous holiday entitlement, occupational pension schemes, training and development opportunities, travel to work scheme and a competitive relocation package. Visit our benefits page for full details.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of our staff and students and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that ARU will carry out online searches as part of the due diligence on short listed candidates.

We value diversity at ARU and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We have a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Committed to being inclusive and open to discuss flexible working. 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications.

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