Job Description
About usWe are the leading destination for the world's brightest students because of our academic excellence and research impact. The focus for UCL's Student Recruitment and Admissions team is to ensure the best possible experience for applicants from the beginning of their journey with us as prospective students through to enrolment. Our student recruitment team are also brand ambassadors for UCL, where they nurture and develop relationships with key stakeholders around the world, from schools to parent and counsellors.Our students make UCL the vibrant, diverse and intellectually curious place it us. Each year we attract around 27,000 of the best and brightest students to come and study at our campuses. UCL brings talented individuals from all over the world to study in the heart of London, and the Recruitment and Admissions function creates strategies to attract students across global markets, as well as from the UK.The Recruitment and Admissions team will bring together existing UCL functions under the leadership of this new role. The team, of circa 145 staff, are in a period of significant transformation, with work already well underway to improve the systems we use to manage the student journey from application through to enrolment.About the roleReporting to the Vice-President, Operations, this is a critical senior leadership role responsible for designing, leading, and transforming UCL's approach to student recruitment and admissions, ensuring UCL consistently delivers an excellent experience to all student applicants, at every stage of their journey. Main responsibilities: With the aim of delivering on student enrolment targets and creating an excellent student experience: develop and deliver a student recruitment and admissions strategy which ensures a sustainable pipeline of undergraduate and postgraduate students. This is key to enabling us to meet our financial and strategic goals, and to achieving an effective approach to student number planning, whilst managing key risks. Accountable to UCL's executive team, the University Management Committee, (via the VP Operations) for student recruitment and admissions activity, including significant stakeholder engagement with Deans and Faculties. Establish a data and KPI driven customer-focused approach to student recruitment and admissions. About youThe successful candidate will have a highly commercial, service orientated mindset and a proven track record of successfully leading and developing a high performing student recruitment and admissions function, with experience of both international and home markets. You will have experience of leading successful student recruitment strategies, including growing previously untapped markets as well as having optimised data analytics and technology to improve performance in recruitment and admissions.You will have excellent leadership and managerial skills with the ability to drive high performance and measurable outputs as well as exceptional stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to land change well with a varied stakeholder group.What we offerAs well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below: 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loanOn-Site nurseryOn-site gymEnhanced maternity, paternity and adoption payEmployee assistance programme: Staff Support ServiceDiscounted medical insurance Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and InclusionAs London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/