Deputy Head of Admissions

We are seeking an experienced admissions specialist to join the University's Admissions Management team, based in the Academic Registry.

The Admissions service handles a large volume of undergraduate and postgraduate applications every year, as well as managing a number of key events in the cycle, including confirmation and clearing. This is an exciting opportunity to combine your technical admissions knowledge with your experience of managing or supervising people to make a difference to the experience of the University's applicants. 

The Deputy Head of Admissions leads the operational delivery of the University’s admissions service, ensuring excellent customer service for applicants to Brighton’s diverse portfolio of courses. Closely supported by the Head of Admissions, the Deputy Head leads on allocating work across the service, with a focus on ensuring admissions colleagues are trained on the latest policies and practices. 

A confident and credible communicator, you will be comfortable developing collaborative and constructive relationships with academic leaders and admissions contacts in the University’s academic Schools, and for working with a range of external partners, for example the University’s international college provider.  To be successful in this role, you should have:

• a commitment to customer service excellence for applicants
• experience and knowledge of higher education admissions processes
• experience of managing or supervising people, including training and briefing colleagues on processes (which could be informal supervisory experience)
• ability to build relationships with a wide range of colleagues

For full details of the role, and the skills and abilities required, please see the attached job description and person specification. This is a full time (37 hours per week), permanent post, and we welcome applications from candidates seeking to job share.

You will be based at our Moulsecoomb Campus. Our current hybrid working policy means you can work from home for up to 3 days per work. A minimum of 2 days per work must be on-site, subject to the needs of the business. 

If you wish to discuss this role, please contact Chris Wellings, Academic Registrar, c.wellings3@brighton.ac.uk

Further details:

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.

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