Marketing & Recruitment Officer
Company
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/22/2025
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Description
Job Description
Grade UE06: £34,610 - £39,906 per annum
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences/Business School/Admissions, Marketing and Alumni Team
Full time: 35 hours per week
Fixed term contract: 12 months
We are looking for a Marketing & Recruitment Officer within the University of Edinburgh Business School, to cover a maternity leave period.
This post is advertised as full-time (35 hours per week). We are open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working. Most of the team currently works three days from home and two from the office.
The Opportunity
Each September we welcome new postgraduate students to the Business School. Currently we have just under 900 postgraduate students representing around 70 different nationalities studying our 13 taught Masters and 2 MBA programmes.
The efforts of the team, including this role, are instrumental in delivering activity that raises awareness of our postgraduate degree programmes and enables us to meet our student recruitment targets. We are looking for someone who, in conjunction with the Student Recruitment Manager, can lead on many aspects of the student recruitment and marketing activity that will attract and convert well qualified applicants in order to meet the student recruitment objectives.
This is your opportunity to join a thriving school with a mission to create and share knowledge through research and education to make meaningful change for people, organisations and the environment.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Michael Chambers, Student Recruitment Manager by email on: [email protected]
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
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.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab)
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 5 th September 2025.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Interviews will be held on the 16 th September 2025.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
The aim of University of Edinburgh Business School is to be a world-class Business School within a world-class University. We are distinctive, fostering a unique coaching culture, where all students have access to coaching and much of this is facilitated by peer support leaders from the student cohorts. The Business School is focused on sustainability, aiming to anchor the UN Sustainable Development goals into our strategic planning and developing our activities in line with the University’s target to be carbon-neutral by 2040. Furthermore we are actively participating in data-driven innovation which envisages Edinburgh becoming the Data Capital of Europe.
Based in the heart of Edinburgh, staff at the Business School are immersed in the vibrant life of the city. The Business School has excellent transport links including buses and a location that is only a 20 minute walk from Edinburgh Waverley station. In the summer we find ourselves with easy access to the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. For a breath of fresh air all year round, green spaces such as George Square and the Meadows are right outside our front door.
The culture of the Business School is people orientated and diverse; we have a strong Equality and Diversity committee made up of both academic and professional services staff and we are committed to the principles of Athena SWAN https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/equality-charters/athena-swan-charter . We also support staff in a hybrid working environment and offer the possibility for most roles to work in a combination of on-campus and at-home working where suits both them and the organisation.
Academically, we are an interdisciplinary School with particular strengths in management science, leadership organisations and society, interdisciplinary accounting, corporate finance, climate change and sustainability, and entrepreneurship. The School is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and the Association of MBAs (AMBA). This triple accreditation highlights the quality of teaching and excellence of research at the School.
Detailed information can be found at the School website at www.business-school.ed.ac.uk
Grade UE06: £34,610 - £39,906 per annum
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences/Business School/Admissions, Marketing and Alumni Team
Full time: 35 hours per week
Fixed term contract: 12 months
We are looking for a Marketing & Recruitment Officer within the University of Edinburgh Business School, to cover a maternity leave period.
This post is advertised as full-time (35 hours per week). We are open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working. Most of the team currently works three days from home and two from the office.
The Opportunity
Each September we welcome new postgraduate students to the Business School. Currently we have just under 900 postgraduate students representing around 70 different nationalities studying our 13 taught Masters and 2 MBA programmes.
The efforts of the team, including this role, are instrumental in delivering activity that raises awareness of our postgraduate degree programmes and enables us to meet our student recruitment targets. We are looking for someone who, in conjunction with the Student Recruitment Manager, can lead on many aspects of the student recruitment and marketing activity that will attract and convert well qualified applicants in order to meet the student recruitment objectives.
This is your opportunity to join a thriving school with a mission to create and share knowledge through research and education to make meaningful change for people, organisations and the environment.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Michael Chambers, Student Recruitment Manager by email on: [email protected]
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
- HNC/HND or equivalent level qualification plus relevant work experience in a similar role
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal) and at ease when dealing with a wide range of stakeholders including prospective students from a wide range of countries, current students, and colleagues both professional services and academic.
- Ability to plan, prioritise, take initiative and find proactive solutions, contribute new ideas to projects, work unsupervised, under pressure and multitask effectively.
- Strong IT skills across a wide range of programmes including MS office (particularly PowerPoint), online meeting platforms like Zoom/Teams, and other applications (for example, EventBrite, DotDigital, SharePoint)
- Attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills.
Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
- CV
- Cover Letter
- A competitive salary
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits
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.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab)
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 5 th September 2025.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Interviews will be held on the 16 th September 2025.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
The aim of University of Edinburgh Business School is to be a world-class Business School within a world-class University. We are distinctive, fostering a unique coaching culture, where all students have access to coaching and much of this is facilitated by peer support leaders from the student cohorts. The Business School is focused on sustainability, aiming to anchor the UN Sustainable Development goals into our strategic planning and developing our activities in line with the University’s target to be carbon-neutral by 2040. Furthermore we are actively participating in data-driven innovation which envisages Edinburgh becoming the Data Capital of Europe.
Based in the heart of Edinburgh, staff at the Business School are immersed in the vibrant life of the city. The Business School has excellent transport links including buses and a location that is only a 20 minute walk from Edinburgh Waverley station. In the summer we find ourselves with easy access to the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. For a breath of fresh air all year round, green spaces such as George Square and the Meadows are right outside our front door.
The culture of the Business School is people orientated and diverse; we have a strong Equality and Diversity committee made up of both academic and professional services staff and we are committed to the principles of Athena SWAN https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/equality-charters/athena-swan-charter . We also support staff in a hybrid working environment and offer the possibility for most roles to work in a combination of on-campus and at-home working where suits both them and the organisation.
Academically, we are an interdisciplinary School with particular strengths in management science, leadership organisations and society, interdisciplinary accounting, corporate finance, climate change and sustainability, and entrepreneurship. The School is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and the Association of MBAs (AMBA). This triple accreditation highlights the quality of teaching and excellence of research at the School.
Detailed information can be found at the School website at www.business-school.ed.ac.uk
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