Recruitment Advisor

University of Newcastle, Australia
- New Delhi, India

We are looking for a talented, dedicated professional to support the University of Newcastle’s activities in South Asia via Grok Global’s Program Office, based in New Delhi.

The role’s primary focus will be to carrying out promotional and market engagement activities supporting the university across South Asia. The position involves significant domestic and international stakeholder-engagement activities. This may constitute participating in both in-person and online/tech enabled information sessions, meetings, and student education fairs. Significant travel time is required.

As a Recruitment Advisor you will implement engagement plans for South Asian markets. Specifically, you will:

- Develop positive relationships with key stakeholders within South Asia such as education agents, prospective students’, and other key stakeholders.
- Follow up with academic offer holders via conversion/acceptance of offer campaigns.
- Build relationships with high schools and universities, support potential institutional partnerships.
- Expand, extend, and enhance student experience and success initiatives (contributing to UON’s ‘value proposition’).

**Core Responsibilities & Typical Activities**
- Ensure planning and budgeting of resources to improve market engagement.
- Ongoing, proactive review and evaluation of existing activities, contributing to delivery of an effective strategy. Evaluate and new and approved strategies and approaches to meet market changes.
- A strong understanding of stakeholder needs (students; alumni; academic and administrative units) and how this relates to student engagement and student success.
- Lead the development of strong constructive networks and relationships with internal and external partners, with strong lines of communication and engagement.
- Provide outstanding standards of service and partnership with all relevant stakeholders including across UON faculty and divisions, prospective and continuing international students, alumni, fellow staff members and external representatives.
- Maintain a thorough knowledge of relevant standards, legislation, and political frameworks as it pertains to Australian international student regulations.
- Lead the preparation and submission of reports and review collated statistics to inform planning and strategy, as requested.
- Bachelor’s degree with good to strong academic performance.
- 3-5+ years of experience in increasingly responsible roles related to education or international education.
- Clear, proven understanding of the international education market.
- A thorough understanding of the educational value of a diverse and inclusive community.
- Experience representing a known institution will be a plus.
- Strong English fluency; proficient in business writing; able to discuss strategy and analysis with English speakers.
- Study or experience abroad strongly preferred. Study or experience in Australia will be an additional advantage.
- Voluntary or other life experience that demonstrates creativity, hard work, persistence or drive to succeed.
- Highly-developed problem-solving skills, the ability to work individually on tasks and collaboratively in a team environment, and the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Highly-developed organizational skills, including the ability to manage multiple complex tasks with competing deadlines.
- Proven capacity to develop and implement plans to achieve defined outcomes.
- Demonstrated extensive experience working at a senior level in administration or customer service.