Senior Recruitment and Outreach Officer

Hours:

Full time only, will require occasional weekend, evening work and overnight stays away.

Expected Interview date: w/c 10^th February 2025

Expected start date: March 2025 

About the role

Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) is looking to appoint a highly motivated, confident and enthusiastic professional to support the widening participation (WP), outreach and recruitment work for the school.

This new and exciting role will work as part of the BSMS Admissions team, to provide up to date and accurate information, and subject matter knowledge, advice and guidance to perspective medical students, parents/carers, teachers and careers advisors.

To lead on a number of key elements to BSMS recruitment and outreach activity and to assist the team with other areas of day to day business. This role will require the successful candidate to work at least 12 Saturdays a year, plus evenings and occasional overnight stays away from home.

About you

Applicants will have experience of widening participation into higher education and demonstrate enthusiasm and commitment to this motivate and inspire young people. They should have a high level of personal responsibility, initiative and attention to detail.  The post holder will be highly organised, adaptable, and flexible, have excellent interpersonal skills.

The successful candidate will be a team player, with excellent IT skills and have a supportive approach to students and be able to communicate information in an understandable way, both orally and in writing. They will have the ability to work with minimal supervision.

About our School

We are a diverse, collaborative research community with expertise in a wide variety of research areas, from laboratory research through to social science and clinical studies. Our close integration collaborations with local NHS organizations allows our researchers to work directly with the local population, improving their health while developing research work that can be applied nationally and globally.

Here, at our School, our medical research has and continues to develop a strong reputation for making a real impact locally, nationally and internationally. Ultimately, our research aims to:

• improve medical diagnosis and treatment
• answer fundamental biomedical and clinical questions
• deliver more personalised healthcare to patients.

We are passionate about training and supporting our researchers at all levels, to deliver research that is relevant to our stakeholders, accelerate its recognition and foster adoption of our findings to catalyse new research impact.

Please find further information regarding the School at Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Brighton and Sussex Medical School is proud to hold a Gold Athena Swann Award.

Why work here

Find out more about our reward and benefits package.

Find out about our equality, diversity and inclusion

Further Key Information

Please contact Claire Johnson (C.Johnson2@bsms.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex. 

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