Student Recruitment Manager / Marketing Manager - Education Industry

Job description / Role

The Australia Student Recruitment Manager (Marketing Manager) is an international education industry specific role.

As a member of the source country marketing team the Australia Student Recruitment / Marketing Manager leads the recruitment team that provides services to agents on behalf of the regional business units ie, Australia/NZ/Singapore. The role plays an important role in driving leads/enquiry & conversion activities through agencies & other channels and delivering services in conjunction with the business unit/college teams to support conversion from enquiry to enrollment.

- Train agents in Navitas (pathways) value propositions
- Train agents in business unit propositions
- Attend agents exhibitions/fairs and seminars
- Coordinate attendance of colleges and University Partners at exhibitions/fairs
- Manage agent enquiries (re. students)
- Product and refresher training for agents using sales toolkit
- Handle outbound calls to students from within source country
- Handle on the ground student and agent enquiries
- Review offers, current status and maximise conversion with agents
- Provide information to agents on ongoing conversion campaigns
- Coordinate and deliver internal English test (where required)
- Provide visa support and information
- Coordinate student contact to confirm outcome of visa interview
- Pre-departure execution training of agents
- Facilitate pre-departure process with agents and students on the ground where required
- Work closely with agents to drive conversion
- Reporting on conversion process metrics

Requirements

Technical skills
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English
- Tertiary qualifications in marketing, sales or a related discipline
- Salesforce experience desirable
- An understanding of the international education industry and visa process
- Strong presentation skills
- Experience in building and managing internal and external relationships, particularly with agents

Non-Technical Skills
- Proven ability to work in a multi-cultural matrixed environment
- Demonstrated team player
- Relationship management skills in a commercial, fast paced environment
- Ability to influence
- Ability to articulate the benefits/value proposition of Navitas products
- Emotional intelligence – ability to build relationships
- Socially adept
- Responsive – acts with urgency
- Results oriented
- Organised

Right of abode in Dubai, UAE, and ability to travel freely to various countries across Middle East and Africa

Desirable: fluency in a second language of prevalence in the Middle East and/or Africa

About the Company

Navitas has helped generations of learners transform their lives through education. Over the last 40 years, hundreds of thousands of learners from around the world have graduated from Navitas colleges, having experienced a teaching and learning environment that supports them to harness their talents and achieve their dreams.

Navitas’ success is underpinned by its unparalleled international network, a peerless commitment to student experiences and outcomes, a track record of working in partnership with universities and industry and a passion for discovering new technologies and models of teaching and learning that will improve education now and into the future.

From pre-university and pathway programs to university, to English language and vocational training and undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, Navitas reaches more than 80,000 aspirational learners at more than 120 colleges and campuses across its global network each year, powered by a diverse and talented group of 8,000 employees.