Student Recruitment Outreach Officer (Pre 16) (Multiple posts)

Widening Participation & Outreach

The University of Nottingham is looking to appoint two Student Recruitment Outreach Officers to join its Widening Participation and Outreach team. This is a varied and rewarding role that combines programme and event planning with front-line delivery and prospective student support.

As a Student Recruitment Outreach Officer, you will support the delivery of the University of Nottingham’s recruitment and widening participation strategies to raise aspirations and attract prospective students to the University. This will include building and maintaining relationships with schools and colleges, delivering presentations and activities, promoting the University at events, assisting in the development and delivery of Pre 16 programmes (including Ambition Nottingham),and supporting wider team projects and initiatives. You will primarily work with Pre-16 secondary school students.

As the successful candidate, you should be a motivated individual with experience of working with, and the ability to motivate and engage, young people, preferably in a classroom setting. You will have excellent interpersonal and customer service skills, both written and verbal. This will include the ability to engage with a wide range of learners, as well as their families and teachers, about Higher Education. You will be experienced in delivering presentations and organising events of different scales for varied audiences.

You will require the ability to build and develop a strong rapport with academic staff, support colleagues and Student Ambassadors from across the University and partner organisations. In addition, you will be a strong team player, have excellent IT skills and have the ability to manage a varied and demanding workload, proactively working under pressure to meet deadlines.

In the Widening Participation and Outreach team, our outreach work is predominately with groups that are under-represented in Higher Education in order to raise aspirations and remove preconceived barriers to continuous learning. Our wider team delivers sessions to primary and secondary-aged children, post 16 learners, and mature students, to provide insight into University life and demonstrate the benefits of Higher Education.

These full-time (36.25 hour per week), permanent positions are based in the Widening Participation and Outreach Team at the King's Meadow Campus, but involve frequent travel to schools, colleges and other venues around the East Midlands region. Some of these venues are rural and sometimes quite remote; therefore you must have a full driving licence, access to your own transport and business insurance. Student Recruitment Outreach Officers are expected to work some evenings and weekends.

Interviews are likely to take place on Friday 31st March.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Michael Dosanjh: Michael.Dosanjh@nottingham.ac.uk Please note that we will not accept applications sent directly to this email address.

It is a condition of this post that satisfactory enhanced disclosure is obtained from the 'Disclosure and Barring Service'.