College Admissions Tutor (School of Design)

The opportunity

Are you a Design academic with a passion for higher education admissions and student recruitment? Chelsea College of Arts is seeking to appoint to their team of College Admissions Tutors.  This team plays a key role in shaping the future of our creative community, engaging with applicants, course teams and supporting the recruitment process.

As a College Admissions Tutor, you’ll play a central role in processing undergraduate and postgraduate applications to the School of Design, providing key academic insight to ensure that the School continues to recruit skilled and ambitious creatives looking to deepen their knowledge and enhance their skills.

You’ll oversee and support the academic decision-making process, ensuring that offers are made to meet intake targets. This includes providing academic oversight for offer making, acting as the lead contact for student recruitment within the school, and managing fractional College Admissions Tutors. Your duties will also involve reviewing applications and portfolios, making decisions on offers, rejections, and cross referrals, and supporting interviews.

In addition to your admissions responsibilities, you’ll also support the wider Student Marketing and Recruitment Team in promoting undergraduate and postgraduate study.

Your profile

To succeed in this role, you’ll need a higher degree (e.g. MA) in a Design field and will have previous experience in student recruitment or admissions within the higher education sector. Teaching and learning experience, or equivalent industry experience in your subject areas of expertise, is also essential.

You’ll possess strong teamwork, organisational, and management skills, with the ability to build effective teams, networks, or communities of practice and foster constructive collaboration across teams.

This is an exciting and varied role that offers an excellent opportunity to further your career at a world leading arts institution, while contributing directly to enhancing the student experience and maintaining excellent standards of customer service.

Should you have any questions about the role, please contact Tim Wilson /  t.l.wilson@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.

We are a global University, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. We aim to be a university where people can be themselves and feel supported to reach their full potential. That’s why we are proud to hold a Bronze Award from the Race Equality Charter (REC), are members of the Business Disability Forum and Employers for Carers, and maintain our status as a Disability Confident Scheme and Living Wage employer.

Application process

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our job board. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.

We understand the benefits of using AI in work. But, if you are thinking of using it to submit an application, we ask you to think about what value it adds. AI tools tend to lack the personal touch and authenticity we value in candidates. We encourage you to showcase your unique knowledge and skills using your own voice.

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