Student Recruitment Officers

Description:

Student and Scholarly Services provides student administration and services from recruitment and point of enquiry to graduation. This team also delivers wellbeing and scholarly services to students and staff.

About the Role

The Future Students team within the Divisional Groups is responsible for coordinating onshore and offshore recruitment strategies, managing enquiries from prospective students, providing outstanding service to prospective coursework and research students, managing the processing and assessment of graduate coursework applications and supporting complex undergraduate selection as required.

The Student Recruitment Officer will be primarily responsible for promotion of the University’s profile among future graduate students and the wider community within Australia and internationally. The role is also required to contribute to promotion and profile of undergraduate programs for the Divisional Group.

The role supports a network of internal and external relationships and assist with delivering a schedule of recruitment-based profiling activities, events and recruitment campaigns to maximise student enrolment outcomes. An innovative approach to student recruitment, utilising multiple communication strategies, alignment to the future student journey stages and understanding of student experience is essential to success in this role.

We currently have three roles available:

• Two full time (1.0) continuing roles
• One part time (0.4) fixed term role to December 2022

About You

To be successful in this role, you will ideally possess the following skills and attributes:

• Have a degree with student recruitment experience within a tertiary education context; or extensive experience and broad knowledge of the field; or an equivalent combination of relevant professional experience and/or education and training
• Experience and demonstrated ability to develop, implement and review policies and strategies
• Strong planning, attention-to-detail and organisational skills, and ability to coordinate largescale events and programs
• Demonstrated experience in the field of customer service, communications, marketing and/or event organisation
• High level problem-solving skills with the capacity to think flexibly and implement solutions based on sound judgement when required and flexibility to work within a team to achieve results

Benefits

• Maximise your benefits through our Salary Packaging scheme
• Flexible family friendly policies, providing generous leave and working conditions
• The opportunity to work in a culturally rich environment
• A substantial discount to eligible staff and their immediate families in undertaking further studies at the University of Melbourne