University Admissions Officer (Hybrid)

🌟 We're Hiring: University Admissions Officer (Hybrid)! 🌟

We are looking for a dedicated and detail-oriented University Admissions Officer to join our team. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in guiding prospective students through the admissions process, ensuring a smooth and engaging experience while promoting our university's values and offerings.

Overview:

As an Admissions Officer, you will undertake day-to-day operational admission processing of applications and decision making (or other admissions activities) in accordance with the partner’s requirements, processes and system, ensuring that you uphold compliance and deliver to expected quality standards in line with SLAs. You will ensure that you deliver an excellent applicant experience at every touch point, each and every time, to support our partners with their enrolment targets.

Working efficiently and flexibly to ensure that we respond to our partners’ and the sector’s changing needs will be integral to achieving success in this role. As part of the Admissions team, you will be an excellent team player whilst also being able to work independently and conscientiously. You will demonstrate a positive attitude to working flexibly and managing variation with the opportunity to develop knew knowledge and skills. You will work intelligently and with initiative, through which you will contribute to our ongoing success.

We value intelligent effort. To be an effective team member, you’re amazing at

• communication—all kinds and all directions

• solving problems and using initiative

• working independently to a high quality

• prioritizing intelligently

Key accountabilities:

• Assessing applications accurately in accordance with relevant requirements & regulations including but not limited to; charges liability, academic eligibility, English language requirements, widening participation, professional/clinical/industry experience requirements, immigration requirement, student route/visa regulations & other requirements

• Completing application assessments (as aforementioned) accurately and with a high level of attention to detail to determine appropriate outcomes, apply decisions and progress records correctly within partner(s) systems and in accordance with their defined procedures

• Ability to identify where additional information is required or needs querying and liaise with the prospective applicant and/or partner appropriately in a professional manner, whilst ensuring that such queries are resolved in a reasonable time frame.

• Through the delivery of your operational duties ensure that work is completed to expected standards and within agreed SLAs

• Maintain excellent working relationships with our partner(s) ensuring that they love us, communicating professionally and working collaboratively with their teams to deliver a best-in-class service and effectively resolving issues as they arise

• Ensure an excellent applicant experience at every touch point, each and every time, to support our partners with their enrolment targets

• Undertake such other duties as may from time to time be required, either on a short-term or permanent basis where these are commensurate with the level of the role and required by the business as it develops

Essential experience, skills and competencies:

• Relevant experience in an admissions setting is required, ideally within a higher education environment. Candidates will typically have around two years of experience, although equivalent experience in related contexts may also be considered where relevant and transferable.

• Excellent time management with the ability to intelligently prioritise your work whilst effectively coordinating with a team to ensure that deadlines are met.

• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of UK/USA or ANZ Higher Education postgraduate or domestic admissions process (at least one area/region is required).

• A working knowledge of qualification frameworks and an understanding of comparability/equivalencies across regions is required.

• An understanding of the principles of the GDPR, the DPA and data-protection across regions is desirable.

• Confident and professional telephone manner

• Superb communication skills including an excellent standard of spoken and written English

• A positive, can-do attitude and high level of initiative

• Ability to perform well under pressure and multi-task

• Ability to motivate and inspire others in a remote working environment

• Ability to work effectively and respectfully with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds

• Ability to deal with difficult issues with tact and sensitivity

• High personal standards of achievement

• Honest and conscientious

• Amenable to work onsite for the first 1–3 months, transitioning to a hybrid schedule (3 days in the office, 2 days WFH) or even working remotely with flexibility to cover midshift and night shift assignments.

Ready to make an impact? 🚀 Apply now and let's grow together!