University of Edinburgh Hiring for Director of Undergraduate Admissions Job at Edinburgh, Scotland Full Time

Director of Undergraduate Admissions

School/Support Department: College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

College Admissions Team

Grade UE08 (£42,149-£56,587)

Post will be available from the start of December 2021

Open ended / full-time (35 hours per week)

Student recruitment and admission is increasingly challenging with a complex funding picture, ambitions to widen participation locally and globally and rising levels of global competition. The College is at the forefront of addressing those challenges and has an ambitious 10-year plan for student population growth on and off campus. The College currently admits approximately 9500 students each year joining a total student population of more than 22,800 students representing more than 95 nationalities. The College Office Admissions Team comprises an Undergraduate (UG) and a Postgraduate (PG) Admissions Service with both services committed to delivering an excellent applicant experience. The UG Admissions Service is responsible for the annual processing of more than 41,000 applications, making over 14,500 offers and admission of just under 4000 UG students to more than 420 programmes over the 12 Schools in the College.

The successful candidate for the post of Director of Undergraduate Admissions will be an experienced and committed professional administrator with significant experience of working in higher education admissions, proven leadership skills and knowledge and understanding of the key issues affecting student admissions, both in the national and the global context. You will have experience of leading successful change projects as well as a flexible and innovative approach to problem solving and the ability to deliver key objectives under pressure.

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The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

Informal enquiries are encouraged. Please contact:

Rupert Lezemore, Head of Student Recruitment and Admissions, [email protected].

The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Tier 2/Skilled Worker Visa.

Student Recruitment and Admissions (SRA) leads the design, development and implementation of the University of Edinburgh’s strategy for student recruitment, admissions, pre-arrival and induction, and widening participation. SRA is one of a number of key services within the University Secretary’s Group (USG). We contribute to two core University strategies: the Student Recruitment Strategy and the Widening Participation Strategy.

We support the implementation of these strategies in two ways:

• Our teams deliver a range of core, University-wide activities;
• We lead and co-ordinate the delivery of aspects of the strategies where there is shared responsibility with Schools, Colleges and Support Group services.

Our departmental values are:

• Professional: we are experts and skilled practitioners: adept communicators, analysts and strategic thinkers.
• Collaborative: we work in partnership with colleagues within and beyond the University, forming valuable networks and teams.
• Constructive: we are helpful, supportive, reliable and trustworthy.
• Creative: we are innovative, inspiring, proactive and flexible.