GEDU Global Education
Student Engagement Officer

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Department: Academic Operations
Location: Leeds
Type of Contract: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: £30,000 - £33,000
Our Vision: Changing Lives through Education
The Role:
The Student Engagement Officer helps deliver GBS’s student participation in a range of educational, professional, and extra-curricular activities across GBS. They provide day-to-day management of the Student Representative system for all GBS collaborative programmes. They arrange, attend, and minute all Student Representative meetings and provide logistics for Partnership Student Focus groups across all programmes.
The role also requires some occasional flexibility for work outside of normal hours, which can include late evenings and weekend work, to meet service needs.
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship!
What the Role Involves:
- To work at the direction of the Student Engagement Manager and Dean of Students to assist with student events such as Partnership Focus Groups, Student Voice Roadshows, Celebrating Your Success Events, Wellbeing Events, and other activities allied with the Student Activities calendar.
- To work with Student Success Tutors (SSTs) in the election of Student Representatives.
- To deliver Student Representative training for all partnerships.
- To act as secretary, as required, to the Student Representative Committees.
- To support academic student consultation activities.
- To assist Student Representatives to write and submit the external and internal Student Written Submissions (SWS).
- To work with our Communications Manager to coordinate material for the publication of student engagement and voice materials such as the GBS Life Student Newsletter.
- To maintain appropriate records of actions and interventions so as to support timely and accurate reporting of student engagement activities against key performance indicators.
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Essential:
- Excellent written skills with experience of report writing.
- Understanding and awareness of the needs of a diverse student body.
- Ability to deal with sensitive student data.
- Creativity in producing student-facing documents and communication.
- Ability to compile, analyse, and evaluate qualitative and quantitative data to incorporate into reports.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work with students and staff at all levels, including senior colleagues at GBS and beyond.
- Ability to work under own initiative to plan, prioritise, and organise own workload, including working to tight deadlines with limited supervision.
- Willingness to develop professionally and maintain continuous professional development, ensuring familiarity with sector and institutional level developments which may impact upon the work of the team.
- Willing to travel to GBS campuses, as appropriate.


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Desirable:
- Experience of committee servicing.
- Experience of working within Higher Education (HE).
- Understanding of current issues within the HE sector.
What We Offer:
- 25 days annual leave, plus 8 public holidays
- 1-day extra leave per year of service, up to a maximum of 5 days
- Workplace pension scheme
- Tuition reimbursement for career development courses
- Flexible Benefits: Cycle to Work, Workplace Nursery, Techscheme, and much more
- Perks@Work discounts platform, wellbeing centre, and much more
- Reward and recognition programme
- £500 award employee referral scheme
- Discretionary annual performance bonus
“GBS has been a good place for professional growth. I have received great support from managers and colleagues who have encouraged me to develop new skills and take on more senior roles. Their mentorship has been invaluable to help me advance in my career.”
— Barbara Vargas (Professional Services Employee)
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