LIS: The London Interdisciplinary School
Recruitment Officer
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LIS Student Recruitment Officer
LIS students are remarkable. Gaining roles in companies such as Goldman Sachs, sustainability startups, and the arts. Publications in academic journals and securing fully funded PhDs. CEOs and serial entrepreneurs. And we’re looking for more of them. Do you think you can help?
Our Student Recruitment Officers are usually the first point of contact for people interested in studying here. They are key in supporting individuals throughout their pre-arrival journey - from representing LIS at events, to understanding their goals and passions, to helping them decide between the wide range of options available.
The skills you will develop in this role include consultative sales, CRM, data management, marketing, higher education, and much more.
Reporting directly to the Director of Recruitment and Admissions, you'll also be able to help shape the strategy as you go as we increase our core number of students, expand our international recruitment efforts, and grow our portfolio of programmes. This role also offers a great step into the life of scale-up organisations.
LIS Student Recruitment Principles
- High touch – we will be in regular contact with qualified contacts, understanding their motivations, barriers, and personal context.
- Human centric – we will take an individualised approach to engagement, favouring personalised connection over automated outreach.
- Focussed – we will concentrate our resources on contacts who have the highest likelihood of successfully joining the cohort.
- Agile – we will be flexible in our approach – failing fast, learning lessons, and pivoting tactics when required.
- Community driven – we will amplify our efforts by engaging the whole LIS community – staff, students, faculty, alumni, prospects, and partners.
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We are looking for candidates who will:
- Be comfortable communicating across different mediums, including over the phone, email, video, and face-to-face.
- Be an inspiring and credible ambassador, comfortable engaging with a range of stakeholders across sectors and adept at articulating LIS’s vision and value proposition.
- Be able to prioritise opportunities in a fast-moving, scale-up style environment.
- Be a natural relationship builder who thrives on creating meaningful connections.
- Demonstrate a proactive and resourceful mindset, bringing creativity and a passion for innovation to the role.
- Align deeply with LIS’s values: rigour, curiosity, courage, compassion, and meraki.
It would be a bonus to have any experience or understanding of:
- Consultative sales
- UK higher education
- International student recruitment
- CRM and data
We value growth mindset and action over years of experience. If you are excited about our mission and believe you can thrive in this role, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- 1:1 outreach to leads across the portfolio of programmes, via telephone, email, and face-to-face activities.
- Lead scoring potential applicants/ students to prioritise leads, assess the health of the pipeline, and inform marketing tactics.
- Being the primary point of contact for some of our offer-holders, including building individual relationships with each offer holder, keeping them updated on programme information, and answering any questions they may have.
- Effectively leveraging existing students for insights, event support, and community building (e.g. the buddy system).
- Representing the portfolio at both internal and external events, including the potential for international travel.
- Engaging with and visiting schools to work directly with students and teachers.
- Actively contributing to how we market the portfolio, including development of the LIS website, prospectuses, and digital communications.
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Note: Role to include but not restricted to the tasks detailed here. LIS is a scale-up and all employees may be asked to help out or get involved with different parts of the organisation at any time.
Benefits
- £33,000-£36,000 salary, with the potential to progress to £40,000
- 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- Monthly fitness contribution and, on successful completion of your probationary period, option to join the company-sponsored health plan
- Annual personal development contribution for external training/coaching
- The opportunity to join a mission-led, fast-growing organisation that is changing higher education
About LIS
The challenges humanity is facing aren’t the stuff of dystopia, science fiction, or textbooks. They’re happening today – and they’ve never been more complex and interconnected.
Yet our higher education system is still structured in silos, leaving graduates ill-equipped to tackle the complexity that surrounds them. The next generation is now demanding to learn in a different way. That’s where The London Interdisciplinary School comes in.
LIS equips learners with an interdisciplinary toolkit to tackle the complex, real-world problems of the 21st century. With a world-class faculty, a growing alumni community, and close partnerships with global organisations such as McKinsey, KPMG and innocent, LIS is a new type of education for those who want to shape the world, not just fit in.
We are the first new UK education institution for 50 years to have full degree-awarding power since inception, and offer undergraduate, masters, as well as professional development programmes that take a ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to education.
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