Admissions Officer - Maternity Cover

Turning Passion into Purpose.

London South Bank University are excited to be recruiting for the post of Admissions officer on a Maternity Cover contract, starting in June 2025, within our Marketing, Recruitment, and Communications team.

As the Admissions Officer you will be responsible for your own portfolio of programmes, ensuring consistent assessment of applications submitted. You will provide a high level of customer service to applicants, make decisions on applications, short-list applicants for interview, implement the pre-CAS process for International students and work closely with key stakeholders including Admissions Tutors. Working efficiently and flexibly, the role plays a key part in the delivery of an excellent applicant experience and assisting the University to meet its student number targets by admitting suitably qualified applicants.

About You:

We are looking to hear from candidates who have the following skills/experience:

• Experience of working in a higher education institution, preferably including experience of the main clearing houses or University administration.
• Ability to understand, explain and apply complex procedures and regulations.
• Experience of solving problems, effectively and efficiently.
• Experience of working in a high-volume processing environment using complex databases.
• A commitment to professionalism, collaborative working and the delivery of high service and client satisfaction levels, both internally and externally.

The ideal candidate will be degree educated or the equivalent work experience, be highly motivated with attention to details and has an excellent organisation skill to deliver a professional, fair, and efficient applicant experience to UK and International applicants, whilst providing the academic schools with advice on process and acting as the institutional repository for qualifications expertise.

A full list of key responsibilities and the required skills and experience for this role, alongside guidance on what to submit within your application can be found in the candidate pack. The candidate pack is attached to the full advert for this position on our careers site, which you can access via the "Apply" button.

Benefits of Working With Us:

As a leading Higher Education Institution LSBU offers staff a highly competitive benefits package including holiday entitlement starting at 26.5 days per annum, pro rata, professional development opportunities and flexible working. Full details on the range of benefits we offer can be found here.

Key Dates:

• The closing date for applications is 23:59 Sunday 13^th April 2025
• In-person interviews will take place on Wednesday 23^rd April 2025 

We are happy to talk flexible working and reasonable adjustments and aim to make our recruitment and selection process accessible to all, please contact us to discuss any support you need. The diversity of LSBU’s staff and students is a source of our strength and the richness of ideas and perspectives that this diversity brings makes LSBU a unique place to work.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the UKVI Skilled Worker route.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early, should we receive sufficient applications.

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