International Partnerships and Progressions Officer (MK5115-21-179)

This is an exciting time to join the International Team at the University of Brighton – becoming an important part of a globally distributed team working to enhance the diversity of our international student cohort. 

This role seeks to develop an important recruitment channel for the University through establishing a global network of income generating international partnership and progression agreements.  These agreements will support a growing global intake of students to join via progression agreements into the first year of a course at Brighton and via articulation agreements to join with advanced standing into later stages of the course.

The post holder will also have responsibility for contract management for the University’s extensive network of recruitment representatives and feeder colleges including the University of Brighton International College run by Kaplan and a growing list of other feeder college relationships. 

Whilst the main focus of work will be on agreements supporting the recruitment of full-time degree students, the post-holder will also work to develop other forms of income-generating inter-institutional agreements to support income generation in particular into Study Abroad and Summer School activity. 

The successful candidate will combine a strong understanding and experience of international recruitment and/or international partnership development with the ability to manage tasks, projects and objectives through to completion to the accomplishment of targeted results.  They will be a strong communicator with a positive approach to work, enthusiasm, determination and resilience in the face of challenges.

Despite having grown in size in recent years, we remain a small, welcoming and mutually supportive team aiming to work efficiently and effectively to the achievement of the Universities objectives for internationalisation.

This is a full time, permanent post and it is anticipated that interviews will be held on 22/7/2021

For an informal discussion about the role please do get in touch: g.topp@brighton.ac.uk

Closing Date: 07 Jul 2021
Category: Administrative/Clerical/Technical