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 Student Market Research, Insights and Planning team play a critical role in providing data and insights related to the student journey to enable the development of strategies to achieve the university’s student recruitment targets.

The Market Research and Insights Manager plays a key role in coordinating student market research and data analysis of global student insights which can be used to support the development of student recruitment and marketing strategies.

The role will work closely with colleagues across Global Student Recruitment and Admissions to provide market and competitor analysis, providing actionable insights to support the development of strategies, campaigns, plans and activities. 

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered 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 proven experience in market research and data analysis
2. Ability to analyse and interpret data to make informed decisions/recommendations, produce reports and monitor progress
3. Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
4. Excellent verbal and written communication
5. Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills with the ability to build, maintain and manage stakeholder relationships
6. Meticulous attention to detail in data collection, data management and reporting
7. Experience and proficiency in using data analysis tools and software (e.g. Excel, SPSS, Google Analytics).

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 page. This document will provide information of 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.

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and/or Occupational Health clearances.