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Interim Chief Marketing and Student Recruitment Officer
Vacancy ID
11756
College/Service
Vice Chancellor
Location
UAL - High Holborn, London UK
Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience
Contract
Fixed Term
Hours
37
Apply by
19 June 2025, 11:55 pm
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The opportunity
An incredible opportunity for an experienced leader in Marketing and Student Recruitment to join the Executive team and support the continued success of one of the UK’s most prestigious and globally renowned arts universities.
Following the recent appointment of our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Karen Stanton, we seek to appoint a Chief Marketing and Student Recruitment Officer to join the Executive team. This is a new Chief Officer role. You will be a key member of the Executive Board, supporting our Vice-Chancellor and working collaboratively across the University, developing a commercial delivery model focusing on national and international student recruitment and growth in innovative strategic partnerships with industry and the sector.
With responsibility for marketing, and working closely with the brand function in the Communications Department, you will ensure UAL is a destination of choice for students and recognised as a world leading institution both within the sector and within the creative industry, ensuring all our activity is in line with our UAL strategy and mission, and enhancing UAL’s reputation as well as student applications and enrolments.
The role will also look at commercial opportunities, generating ideas for growing market share, revenue generation and diversification, and business development and impact, and lead the creation of a Business Development Strategy for the University.
The University of the Arts London is ranked second in the world for Art and Design in the 2025 QS World University Rankings. We welcome a diverse body of over 18,000 students from more than 130 countries. Established in 2004, UAL brings together six eminent colleges at the cutting edge of art, design and technology.
Your profile
You will have a track record of successful leadership working in a senior executive role, with extensive leadership, management and experience in a Higher Education student recruitment, marketing and admissions setting. As a senior professional with strong business and commercial awareness and experience, you will have a sophisticated understanding of Higher Education policy and development and be recognised as an authority in your area or profession.
You will be able to demonstrate how you align to UAL’s values and will possess exceptional communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to represent the University with a wide range of stakeholders. You will be a champion of equality, diversity and inclusion, and you will be able to demonstrate your commitment to creating a University where we can all be ourselves and reach our full potential. You will demonstrate exemplary judgement and commercial insight, bringing a strong sense of integrity as well as energy and innovation.
If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please email Karen Gooday, Director of People and Culture, at: K.Gooday@arts.ac.uk
We are UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.
Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.
As a University we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.
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