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University Support Services, an Affiliate of St. George's University
Associate Director, International University Affiliates
FULL TIME
September 20, 2024
To be considered, all candidates must submit a formal application here: https://sgu.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/7/home/requisition/1420?c=sgu
Reporting to the Director Transnational Education (TNE), the Associate Director, International University Affiliates is responsible for creating awareness of progression opportunities to SGU’s MD program for university students, building positive and long-lasting relationships with universities, ensuring they understand SGU’s value proposition, and expanding SGU’s network of contracted university affiliates across all international markets but with a primary focus on UK Universities.
Essential Functions
Work Location: Remote
Reporting to the Director Transnational Education (TNE), the Associate Director, International University Affiliates is responsible for creating awareness of progression opportunities to SGU’s MD program for university students, building positive and long-lasting relationships with universities, ensuring they understand SGU’s value proposition, and expanding SGU’s network of contracted university affiliates across all international markets but with a primary focus on UK Universities.
Essential Functions
- Strategic Planning and Execution: Collaborate with colleagues in TNE to develop and implement both strategic and tactical plans aimed at expanding SGU’s network of University Affiliates and maintaining a robust market footprint, leading to increased student enrolment into SGU’s MD4 program.
- Research: Research and create a comprehensive database of potential university partnerships or affiliations including relevant program details and key contacts.
- Market Engagement: Travel extensively within the designated market to meet prospective university partners, present all aspects of SGU including the academic programs and value proposition.
- Partnership Development: Initiate and build strong relationships with potential university partners. Collaborate with Associate Director, Affiliates to support international university affiliation approval process from proposal to executed agreement.
- Recruitment Collaboration: Work closely with the regional teams to help them engage with prospective students in all target universities and support the recruitment team’s efforts to maintain existing and develop new relationships with universities to support their efforts to achieve their target NSEs.
- Administrative Responsibilities: Ensure all administrative duties are completed in a timely manner and in compliance with all SGU policies and procedures.
- Market Analysis: Identify emerging market opportunities and shifts, stay informed about new programs and competitive status, and adapt strategies accordingly.
- Educational Systems Knowledge: Gain thorough knowledge of comparative education systems and implement strategies for efficient review of international academic credentials. Collaborate with the Associate Director Admissions to seek the recognition of relevant global qualifications and English language modules delivered by our Affiliates.
- Visa Regulations Expertise: Stay updated on visa regulations for Grenada, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom and understand their impact on students throughout the admission, study, clinical, and postgraduate phases.
- SGU Proposition Communication: Develop a deep understanding of SGU’s offerings and effectively communicate the value proposition through proposals and presentations.
- Reporting and Analysis: Develop, implement and present regular reports tracking KPIs from the university affiliate channel. Understand and report on enrolment trends at our university affiliates and their impact on progression to SGU and our strategic direction.
- Market Feedback: Provide critical market feedback from various stakeholders to support the development of SGU initiatives and recruitment strategies.
- Marketing Collaboration: Work with the marketing team to provide market feedback for collateral development and marketing activities, including organizing recruitment events in universities to boost brand awareness and interest.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong relationships with SGU’s functional areas (Recruitment, Admissions, Operations, Marketing, Finance, and Academics) to ensure high customer service standards, efficiency, and problem resolution. Continuously evaluate and adjust processes to align with recruitment strategies.
- Additional Duties: Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.
- Self-Motivation: Highly self-motivated, enthusiastic, and results-oriented.
- Pressure Management: Ability to work well under pressure, with significant organizational skills and the ability to prioritize tasks.
- Initiative: Self-starter capable of asserting ideas, making decisions, and providing feedback.
- Strategic and Creative Thinking: Strong attention to detail with strategic and creative thinking abilities.
- Relationship Building: Ability to develop and leverage strong relationships across the business.
- Leadership: Excellent leadership skills with experience in leading and developing motivated teams.
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Sales & Marketing Acumen: Strong understanding of sales and marketing concepts.
- Execution Ability: Demonstrated ability to execute results against strategy.
- Travel Capability: Ability to travel long distances and for extended periods.
- Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree required.
- Experience: Minimum of five years of professional work experience, with at least two years in a global or enrolment planning environment.
- Technical Skills: Experience with spreadsheets, data analysis tools, statistics, and knowledge of CRM systems and university SISs.
- Collaborative Environment: Positive, creative, and collaborative work environment.
- Location: Remote, based in United Kingdom.
- Travel Requirements: Extensive travel within target regions and the ability to work unsociable hours and weekends during peak periods.
- Research and Planning: Database completion and maintenance, market opportunities identified
- Targets: Number of new university affiliations, growth in MD4 Enrolments.
- Goals: Number of university visits, success rate of market engagement.
- Collaboration: Effective collaboration across all SGU’s functional areas to achieve overall recruitment targets. and goals.
Work Location: Remote
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