Access & Recruitment Operations Officer in Cambridge

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: The UK Schools and Colleges Engagement team, based in the Corporate Marketing Directorate, are recruiting for an Access & Recruitment Operations Officer on a permanent contract to help the delivery of our Access and Participation Plan and Widening Access strategy. Primary responsibilities will involve providing high-quality coordination, delivery, operational support and relationship management for UK student recruitment and widening access initiatives, building strong relationships with stakeholders and acting as the central point of contact for all internal and external widening access and recruitment enquiries.

To be successful in this role, you will be educated to degree level, hold a relevant professional qualification (or be working towards one), or be able to demonstrate an equivalent level of relevant experience. You will also have experience of, and be passionate about, working with diverse groups of people, from primary-age students to mature learners, as well as their parents/carers and teachers/advisers. You will need to be an innovative, creative thinker who is enthusiastic, proactive, patient and highly organised. You will need to demonstrate excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills and you must be able to engage and enthuse those around you. It is important that you can develop and maintain relationships with a wide range of colleagues, partners, and external stakeholders. Confidence with organising and presenting group activities is essential.

The successful applicant will be based on our Cambridge Campus. You’ll have the option of working on an agile basis with a mixture of office and home-based working (minimum 60% of weekly hours face-to-face). Occasional travel between campuses, and occasional work outside of normal office hours is expected.

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
• a competitive relocation package

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the 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 shortlisted candidates. This appointment is subject to an enhanced level children's barred list disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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 and will conduct Right to Work checks in line with UKVI’s Right to Work policy and our own institutional policy.

Committed to being inclusive and open to discuss flexible working. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications.