Schools and Colleges Liaison Officer

Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Liverpool, L1 9HF

LIPA is a world leading provider of university-level performing and creative arts training. Our students become part of an international community of creatives, performers, technicians, film makers and business people who learn by working together on fully realised productions and projects. We enjoy a global reputation for the quality of our teaching, our world class facilities and an enviable track record of graduate employment.

We are looking to recruit a Schools and Colleges Liaison Officer who will be part of a small team of staff working with schools and colleges to provide outreach and fair access activities, which raise awareness of, and aspirations to, Higher Education and encourage applications to LIPA.

The post-holder will lead on the planning, coordination, and evaluation of LIPA’s key post-16 widening participation initiatives, including our Get Set residential summer school, a portfolio of activities with targeted partner colleges, a pre-audition phone call initiative and regional pipeline activities. These activities proactively aim to raise awareness of and support progression to Higher Education from prospective students from backgrounds that are underrepresented at university level.

The post-holder will also deliver and support a range of wider recruitment activities with schools and colleges, community groups and select organisations across the UK (and occasionally overseas), promoting LIPA directly among audiences such as prospective students, parents/carers, teachers and higher education advisers.

You will be a graduate with previous experience of designing, promoting, coordinating, and evaluating activities, as well as working with groups of young people. You will have excellent project management and organisational skills, strong written communication and presentational skills and be confident in dealing with a range of people. You will need to be an enthusiastic team player with the capacity to be flexible and think on your feet. Knowledge and experience of secondary education and/or Higher Education would be beneficial.

In return we offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience, pension, generous holiday entitlements, and complimentary tickets to our inhouse productions.

We are looking for the successful candidate to start in April 2025. This appointment will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

Closing date for applications: Monday 27^th January 2025 at 1pm

Interviews: Tuesday 11^th February 2025

You can download or request a hard copy of the details and an application form from our website, on the following link: lipa.ac.uk/about-us/working-here

CVs will not be accepted.

Should you have any questions about the application process or require reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact our Recruitment Team on recruit@lipa.ac.uk or 0151 330 3091.

Please send your completed application form to recruit@lipa.ac.uk

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