Student Engagement Manager
About ARU:
ARU is a global university transforming lives through innovative, inclusive and entrepreneurial education and research. ARU holds a Gold award for the quality of its education, awarded through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).
ARU’s research institutes and four faculties bridge scientific, technical and creative fields. We deliver impactful research which tackles pressing issues and makes a real difference to our communities. Our academic excellence has been recognised by the UK’s Higher Education funding bodies, with 16 of our research areas assessed as world leading. We are the largest provider of Nursing, Midwifery, Health and Social Care students in the East of England, and we are also among the UK’s leading universities for degree apprenticeship provision, working with hundreds of employers across the UK.
About the Role:
As part of the Faculty of Business and Law, our Student Engagement team offer students additional innovative, value added co and extra curricula activities, via our award-winning ARUCPD programme, to broaden our students’ skillset, experience and ability to stand out to employers when they graduate.
Leading in the growth and delivery of our team’s portfolio of events and activities, we are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our dynamic team on either our Cambridge or Chelmsford campus as our Student Engagement Manager (maternity cover).
In this role, you will be responsible for managing the members of our Student Engagement team, and overseeing the organisation, and delivery of our portfolio of co and extra curricula activities and communications with our Business and Law student body. This is a student focused role where you will engage students throughout their academic journey from induction to graduation and even as alumni too!
With a degree and appropriate level of experience or part qualified in a relevant professional qualification, you'll have the ability to demonstrate organisation, project and event management and interpersonal skills and you'll enjoy working in a fast paced, customer focused environment. The ability to multi-task, working on multiple projects at any one time to agreed deadlines is essential for this role.
For any informal queries please contact Daniel Berger, Deputy Dean (Education) at daniel.berger@aru.ac.uk .
Find out more about working with us.
We have an agile working culture and offer an extensive range of benefits including generous holiday entitlement, occupational pension schemes, training and development opportunities, travel to work scheme and a competitive relocation package. Visit our benefits page for full details.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of our staff and students and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that ARU will carry out online searches as part of the due diligence on short listed candidates.
We value diversity at ARU and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We have a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Committed to being inclusive and open to discuss flexible working.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications.
Guidance Notes:
For a list of key requirements, please download the Job Description and Person Specification above. To apply for this role please demonstrate how your skills and experience match the criteria in the person specification.