UK Recruitment and Outreach Co-ordinator

Do you want to join the UK Recruitment and Outreach team at London’s University of the year? This exciting position will play a pivotal role in engaging students at local schools and colleges to deliver and participate in our student recruitment events, on and off campus, including UCAS fairs, undergraduate and postgraduate open days. Organised, with high attention to detail, you will help with the planning and delivery of innovative outreach and widening participation activities. 

The role of the UK Recruitment and Outreach Co-ordinator is key in supporting our dedicated team to deliver a portfolio of experiential activities and initiatives for prospective students. Making higher education more accessible to our community is part of who we are at Middlesex University’s DNA. We work with local students and deliver activities that support students in developing their aspirations, attitudes and academic attainment. The co-ordinator will help with organise outreach activities with local schools as well as supporting the delivery with students. 

We are looking for someone who enjoys engaging with young people and who can communicate enthusiastically with potential students, as well as their advisors, parents and carers about all that the University has to offer. You will be one of several co-ordinators critical to both the organisation and the delivery of recruitment and outreach activities. This role has been opened up at a time of team expansion and presents significant development opportunities. It would be an advantage if you have working knowledge of the UK education system including an awareness of current recruitment and access challenges facing the UK Higher Education sector. You’ll be a team player who is also able to use your own initiative to achieve results and with excellent attention to detail. 

We are looking for different combinations of the above skills and experience from successful candidates and are open to genuinely supporting the development of new team members. Middlesex will offer you a platform to develop a broad portfolio of recruitment and outreach experience plus opportunities to support key marketing activities and develop commercial acumen. 

A week in the life of the post holder; a busy week for the UK Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator could see the post holder support an academic taster day for Y13s on campus. This could include liaising with the school before the visit, the supervision of Student Ambassadors who are supporting on the day, managing the logistics of the day around registration, scheduling, catering and transport and troubleshooting any issues that arise. Later that week, the role could see you participating in an event on our campus, raising awareness of our postgraduate courses to our own undergraduate students. Later, you could be supporting a group of Year 10s in a local school with an assembly talk describing university life. Your week could end with a planning session with the rest of the team around ideas for the development of new activities. Tasks will be varied and will support the whole team in their work with prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students and those underrepresented in higher education. 

We are a member of Athena SWAN a gender based charter, the Race Equality Charter, Stonewall Workplace Equality Index and Disability Confident. We are committed to improving employment opportunities for underrepresented groups. We particularly welcome applications from gender non-conforming individuals who are underrepresented in this area. All recruitment decisions will be based on merit. We have also made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in the role profile. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service certificate. You are therefore required to disclose details of any criminal record. ALL criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings, even if they would otherwise be regarded as spent under this Act must be disclosed, as well as any other information that may have a bearing on your suitability for the post, including pending prosecutions. The University will apply for a DBS certificate before your appointment is confirmed.

For further information or an informal discussion about the role, please contact Lucia Byrne, Education Liaison and Outreach Manager at l.byrne@mdx.ac.uk