Marketing & Recruitment Officer
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Job Description
Grade UE06: 34610 - 39906 per annum
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences/Business School/Admissions Marketing and Alumni Team
Full time: 35 hours per week
Fixed term contract: 12 months
We are looking for a Marketing & Recruitment Officer within the University of Edinburgh Business School to cover a maternity leave period.
This post is advertised as full-time (35 hours per week). We are open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus of the team currently works three days from home and two from the office.
The Opportunity:
Each September we welcome new postgraduate students to the Business School. Currently we have just under 900 postgraduate students representing around 70 different nationalities studying our 13 taught Masters and 2 MBA programmes.
The efforts of the team including this role are instrumental in delivering activity that raises awareness of our postgraduate degree programmes and enables us to meet our student recruitment targets. We are looking for someone who in conjunction with the Student Recruitment Manager can lead on many aspects of the student recruitment and marketing activity that will attract and convert well qualified applicants in order to meet the student recruitment objectives.
This is your opportunity to join a thriving school with a mission to create and share knowledge through research and education to make meaningful change for people organisations and the environment.
For an informal discussion about the post please contact Michael Chambers Student Recruitment Manager by email on:
Your skills and attributes for success:
- HNC/HND or equivalent level qualification plus relevant work experience in a similar role
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal) and at ease when dealing with a wide range of stakeholders including prospective students from a wide range of countries current students and colleagues both professional services and academic.
- Ability to plan prioritise take initiative and find proactive solutions contribute new ideas to projects work unsupervised under pressure and multitask effectively.
- Strong IT skills across a wide range of programmes including MS office (particularly PowerPoint) online meeting platforms like Zoom/Teams and other applications (for example EventBrite DotDigital SharePoint)
- Attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills.
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Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
- CV
- Cover Letter
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary
- An exciting positive creative challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits such as a generous holiday entitlement competitive pension schemes staff discounts and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on ourstaff benefits page(opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits
Championing equality diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on ourright to work webpages(opens new browser tab)
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 5th September 2025.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Interviews will be held on the 16th September 2025.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
