King's College London

About us 

King’s College London is the leading destination for ambitious students from across the world, because of our academic excellence, reputation and research impact. Our focus is on ensuring the best possible student experience, from the beginning of their journey with us as prospective students through to enrolment, so that our students can thrive in our diverse and inclusive community in central London.

The Global Student Recruitment and Admissions directorate delivers marketing, student recruitment and admissions services in partnership with Faculties, creating strategies to attract growing numbers of students from across global markets, as well as from the UK.

As a directorate we are responsible for the delivery of student recruitment targets, ensuring cohesive recruitment strategies and planning from lead generation and attraction, via admissions, through to conversion and enrolment.

About the role 

The Faculty Marketing team is the face of the Global Student Recruitment and Admissions team with internal stakeholders. This team plays a critical role in providing expertise and student recruitment and marketing support to our faculties.

The Faculty Marketing Officer will support the Head of Faculty Marketing in delivering marketing strategies and plans for faculties. The role will use in-depth knowledge of their faculty/faculties targets and priorities to contribute to the development of marketing plans which support attraction of prospective students and enhance conversion numbers.

The role will work collaboratively across the Global Student Recruitment and Admissions team to ensure the delivery of marketing plans and campaigns to achieve faculty student recruitment targets.

This is a full time post and will be offered on an indefinite contract.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience: 

Essential criteria

1. Educated to degree level and/or experience in marketing
2. Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrable ability to form and maintain excellent relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
3. Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make informed decisions.
4. Ability to work independently in a fast-changing environment and meet challenging deadlines.
5. Strong written and verbal communication
6. Excellent IT skills to support campaign delivery e.g., MS Office suite, SharePoint, and MS Teams, PowerBI, presentation software and marketing tools.
7. Able to work on own initiative, able to identify and resolve issues promptly and/or escalating where required.

Desirable criteria

1. Experience working within the Higher Education sector.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information on what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community. 

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.