Student Recruitment Operations Coordinator
This range is provided by University of Exeter. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range
External Engagement and Global (EEG) – Student Recruitment Operations This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home. We have one full-time post available immediately, on a permanent basis, based at our Penryn Campus in Cornwall. Summary of the role Based within the Student Recruitment Operations team at the University of Exeter, this role focuses on providing nurturing customer experiences, providing information, advice and guidance, across a range of enquiry channels for prospective students and stakeholders. Working within a team of colleagues in similar roles, you will become a specialist in an aligned faculty area, with the ability to hold knowledge, and support across all faculties, supporting prospective students and University colleagues on a daily basis. You will be joining our team as we continue to build an excellent, customer focused, enquiries service at the University for prospective students. You will be responding to enquiries from a varied and multinational customer base daily across different enquiry channels, including live chat and phone lines and via our CRM system, Microsoft Dynamics. In addition to enquiries, this role will help support the Student Recruitment Operations Team organise and run a range of student recruitment activity – both in person and virtual – throughout the academic year. Supporting the University's undergraduate and postgraduate recruitment ambitions, this work will include activity like online sessions, large scale on-campus Open Days and Offer Holder Days, as well as applicant interviews. Within the role you will build relationships across the Student Recruitment Operations team and more widely within the EEG division, as well as key academic and stakeholder contacts to support the smooth running of student recruitment activity across all levels of study. About you We are looking for a proactive individual with a natural instinct for excellent customer service and who prides themselves on their ability to provide a positive, supportive, and nurturing customer experience at every opportunity. Ideally you will have experience of handling enquiries across a variety of channels and experience in working in a customer focused environment dealing with a wide range of stakeholders. An ideal candidate would be an effective communicator with demonstrable organisational and planning skills and some experience in working on events. Your attention to detail and ability to provide clear and accurate information is key. Whilst experience of using Microsoft Dynamics or a CRM system would be welcome, you will be provided with training to use our different software systems, as well as wider training to develop your knowledge of the university in a specialist area. Within your application to the role, you are welcome to use examples or refer to skills or attributes that you have developed in the workplace, or within your personal life, such as through volunteering or other personal commitments like activities or clubs. Student Recruitment Operations Team Our team delivers student recruitment activity for the university across all cohorts, markets, and programmes of study to support the university's recruitment strategy and aims. Working across all our campuses, the team is responsible for supporting the student experience at key touchpoints in their recruitment journey, whether that is through creation and delivery of over 200 in-person and virtual events or managing thousands of individual enquiries and requests for information and advice. The team works in a matrix approach, with thematic groups focusing on specific areas of recruitment, ranging from digital activity to events and enquiries. We have staff situated across our three campuses in Devon and Cornwall and work collaboratively across the university to provide prospective students with the advice, guidance and support they need when choosing a university. Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role by clicking on the attachment. We offer some fantastic benefits including: 39 days leave per year options for flexible working numerous discounts at leading retailers onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a new Fertility Treatment Policy stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England Further information Please contact Laura Swainson via l.swainson@exeter.ac.uk Please be advised that due to the minimum salary thresholds imposed by the UKVI, this post will not qualify for university sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. If you are a migrant worker, you will need to ensure you have a visa which permits the right to work in the UK. Further details can be found on the Home Office website - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas. If you are an existing Skilled Worker visa holder, we may be able to sponsor and will review the transitional arrangements - https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/certificate-of-sponsorship-before-4-april-2024 This post will close at 23:59 on 16 July 2025. Seniority level
Seniority level Associate Employment type
Employment type Full-time Job function
Job function Administrative and Customer Service Industries Higher Education Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at University of Exeter by 2x Get notified about new Recruiting Operations Coordinator jobs in
Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.
#J-18808-Ljbffr