Are you a confident, passionate, results-focused business development professional with experience of working with and recruiting international students?
Are you looking for your next challenge with a sector leading, international organisation?
Join Coventry University.
‘’We are a dynamic, global and transformational University Group.
Creating better futures, we will be world leading in all that we do.’’
Coventry University has been awarded a five star overall rating by the QS Stars awards system - confirming the breadth of our excellence across teaching, employability, internationalisation, facilities, innovation and inclusiveness. According to QS, a five star university is “generally world class in a broad range of areas, enjoys a high reputation and has cutting edge facilities and internationally renowned research and teaching faculty”.
We have been ranked a top 15 UK University in the Guardian University Guide for 5 years running, and we ranked top 10 across 9 subject areas in the Guardian University Guide 2020. For three straight years we were voted Modern University of the Year (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2014-2016), we were named University of the Year for Student Experience (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019) and we were awarded Gold for outstanding teaching and learning in the 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). Coventry University is now one of the leading UK study destinations for international students and the global agenda is at the heart of our mission and strategy: http://creatingbetterfutures.coventry.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Creating_Better_Futures.pdf
Coventry University International Office is the University Group’s international student recruitment and admissions service, operating centrally from our Coventry University campus in addition to a further nine offices around the world. We are a sector leading team and through our dynamic, innovative and target driven approach have we have achieved results that has made us one the largest recruiters of international students in the UK.
To continue driving our success we are looking for a Regional Manager, South Asia to work closely with the Deputy Director, International Development.
As a member of the management team you will make a significant contribution towards the growth and future success of this dynamic and successful International team. Through a targeted strategy you will work to drive growth in enrolments from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka by achieving targets through a diverse number of pipelines.
You will lead the regional team who are based in the UK and overseas to achieve their own targets and develop them to achieve success in their own markets
You will have experience of working within international student recruitment and understand the challenges facing the sector and foresee opportunities to tackle these to achieve success, with a commercially focused background and experience of achieving targets and driving growth.
This position involves regular travel to the region for 8-12 weeks a year on average although this may vary depending on business demands
Coventry University offers a package of generous annual leave allowance and pension scheme. A relocation allowance may also be made available.
If the above sounds like you and you’re curious to know more about our dynamic team, don’t hesitate – submit your application and we will be in touch shortly to discuss next steps.
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