Overview
Job Title: Student Recruitment Manager
Salary: Commencing at £34,347 with progression to £36,437 per annum
About the Role
What You Will Do
- Lead a team delivering on-campus, online, and external student recruitment events and activities.
- Develop and implement strategic recruitment event and activity plans that align with our marketing and recruitment goals.
- Build and maintain relationships with key schools, colleges, and community groups.
- Provide expert advice on event logistics, strategy, and best practices to internal stakeholders.
- Oversee the recruitment and training of student ambassadors.
- Monitor and evaluate the impact of events, ensuring continuous improvement.
- Manage event budgets, ensuring cost-effective and impactful activities.
- Represent our institutions at external conferences and industry events.
- This role involves some evening and weekend work, plus UK-wide travel.
About You
- Proven experience in event planning and management, ideally within an educational setting.
- Strong people management skills, with experience leading and developing teams.
- Excellent project management abilities, ensuring smooth and efficient event delivery.
- A customer-focused approach, with the ability to engage and inspire prospective students via our marketing material.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience managing budgets and evaluating event success.
- A creative, problem-solving mindset to enhance event innovation.
- A commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in student recruitment.
- A degree (or equivalent qualification) is essential.
For an informal chat about the role, contact Liam Bunce, Head of Marketing and Student Recruitment at liam.bunce@luminate.ac.uk
Benefits
There are plenty of benefits available to our staff members, here are just a few:
- Generous Annual leave entitlement – If you work full time, you’ll get at least 39 days holiday plus bank holidays. This includes closure days at Christmas (pro rata for part time staff).
- Support Staff 39 days
- Academic 44 days
- Senior Management 44 days
- Excellent Pension schemes
- Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Memberships and discounts – employees can sign up to various membership cards and discount schemes such as TOTUM card (formerly NUS card).
- Travel and commuting – discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
- Learning and development opportunities – including staff development days
- Employee wellbeing initiatives
- Flexible and hybrid working opportunities – this will vary depending on role requirements
About Us
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions – Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.
As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.
Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.
Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.
SAFEGUARDING
At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion. As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too. For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds. It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important. It’s not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyone’s contributions and perspectives.
