Student Attraction Advisor in Manchester

Job description

Student Attraction Advisor

This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of our clients in house recruitment team, finding future talent that will enable them to deliver their strategy.

The Opportunity:

The UK Student Recruitment Brand and Attraction team are responsible for attracting the best and most diverse candidates to the firm's school and university programmes across the UK. They are looking for someone who can work autonomously with senior stakeholders within the business and externally, managing relationships with schools, universities, and third party organisations. You will be responsible for designing and implementing the promotion and event strategy across the Glasgow and Aberdeen regions to source candidates for our UK wide opportunities.

Your Key Responsibilities:

You'll spend most of your time independently driving the planning, coordination and delivery of activity around the Glasgow and Aberdeen areas. You will work with the UK wide team virtually and in person to implement the national strategy at a local level, and knowledge share with peers in different regions. There will be opportunities to become involved in different projects to support the wider team's objectives.

Skills and Attributes for Success:

• Use market research, data, and internal and external knowledge to develop a marketing plan, implement the national strategy at a local level, and make specific interventions to support KPIs
• Professional and personable, able to hold and maintain strong relationships with a number of universities, schools, and external 3rd party organisations, as well as internal business stakeholders. Able to challenge and influence decisions appropriately
• Strong event management skills, able to develop and organise multiple, varied events at once and design them to meet specific purposes
• Budget management
• Work in partnership with other Advisors, and other teams within Student Recruitment, to meet shared objectives.
• Understand and articulate the factors which contribute to employee value proposition
• Able to produce reports and analysis for the team and the wider business as required, and can identify when data is not accurate or of questionable integrity
• Demonstrate knowledge regarding the type of measures and targets that are set for recruitment and hold awareness of these targets while delivering work
• Team supporter, contributing equally to the achievement of Student Recruitment hiring targets across all programmes
• Understanding of assessment methods, e.g. strengths based recruitment, different interview tools
• Intimately understand, or able to quickly build understanding, of all programmes from Apprenticeships to Gradates, recruiting teams, what they do, what candidates they require, and able to identify methods to source appropriate candidates
• Responsive to business recruitment needs, demonstrating speed of response through own actions and proactively proposing ideas and solutions
• Work with line manager to monitor recruitment requirements across the business groups and takes action to address critical pipeline issues and hot spots
• Knowledge and best practice sharing through written communication and informal presentations

To qualify for the Role you must have:

• Proven track record of executing volume Student recruitment as well as dealing with niche roles
• Solid experience of recruiting direct candidates from a variety of sources including talent spotting at events
• An advocate of KPIs
• Knowledge of core assessment and selection tools
• Relevant student recruitment experience

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Time and project management skills - able to plan and manage time effectively and demonstrate flexibility to deal with changing priorities
• Relationship building skills - with the ability to challenge senior management where necessary, always acting with integrity and enthusiasm
• Demonstrates a willingness to look beyond the task at hand and consider the broader picture
• Demonstrates calm and objectivity when under pressure

Our client is looking for:

You will be an experienced Advisor with a passion for attracting the best and most diverse candidates and desire to provide an exceptional candidate experience. You must be effective managing multiple priorities while travelling and in and out of events. You will also work closely with Partners and Directors across the business, and a variety of external university, schools, and 3rd party networks, so the ability to build strong and effective relationships is key.

What's on Offer:

Offering a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. The comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with Flex scheme you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, they offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you

Extra information

Status

Closed

Education Level

Other

Location

Manchester

Working hours per week

4 - 40

Type of Contract

Full Time Jobs

Profession type

Training

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English