Sponsor Engagement Manager

Sponsor Engagement Manager

Location: United Kingdom or Middle East

Type of Contract: Full time

Start Date: ASAP

Salary: Competitive

Bonus: Sales Incentive Plan

Who we are: Oxford International

Oxford International Education Group is a renowned institution dedicated to providing exceptional educational experiences to international students. With a global presence and a commitment to academic excellence, we strive to empower students to achieve their full potential and thrive in a dynamic, interconnected world. We are proud of our culture and have recently been officially certified as a Great Place to Work ©!

Job purpose

To support the Global Recruitment Team (GRT) to build and maintain relationships with education sponsors to build recruitment pipeline to key OIEG products across our UK Partnerships, UK Direct and UK EFL division. The role requires a candidate with extensive experience working with sponsors across the world, with a primary focus on the Middle East. The role will be responsible for establishing relationships with sponsors, engaging with key contacts in region to support building and converting a recruitment pipeline of sponsored students, and fulfilling reporting requirements for these sponsors with our university partners to ensure we offer and maintain a superior level of service. The successful candidate will be required to become an expert on our current UK product portfolio, and to support with the strategic development of this portfolio moving forward related to growing our sponsored student pipeline.

This new role plays an integral part of a highly successful team in the University Partnerships Division which includes Admissions, Central Marketing and College Operations.

Main duties and responsibilities

Establish relationships with key sponsors from around the world with the intention of having funded students join OIEG’s UK product portfolio. This will require working with team members across the GRT and the wider OIEG team.

Work with our UK and regional teams to develop and implement effective recruitment strategies to build and convert a recruitment pipeline from our key sponsors

Establish and maintain an effective reporting strategy with our College and University partners to ensure we not only meet our sponsor needs, but provide a superior level of service to our sponsors and the agents working with them

Monitor the progress of our sponsorship projects and support the Partnerships and Product Sales Director to provide regular updates for OIEG stakeholders.

Contribute as required to work on market research, remodelling existing services, service delivery model development and on implementing successful strategies across the sponsor market regions.

Deliver results consistent with expectations, on time and in line with forecasts.

Undertake regular travel as required to meet the requirements of the role.

General responsibilities:

Provide ideas and best practice synonymous with a high-performance team.

Ensure detailed and accurate records are maintained

Adhere to all policies and procedures with regards to budget expenditure, displaying budget control, reporting any variances on a monthly basis.

Adhere to OIEG’s Equal Opportunities policy in all activities, and to actively promote equality of opportunity wherever possible.

Ensure that all activity and communication, where possible, is accessible by those with disabilities.

Keep abreast of all legislation and regulations and to ensure OIEG’s adherence and to report all new systems to the Data Protection Controller.

Be responsible for personal development within the area of sales, marketing and current trends that may support job performance and encourage it for team members.

Carry out such other duties as are within the scope and spirit of the job purpose, the title of the post and its grading as deemed necessary within this strategic role.

Person specification

Statutory requirements

• Eligibility to live, work and travel freely in the designated region
• Undergo an Enhanced DBS disclosure check or overseas equivalent

Qualifications

• Degree or other qualifications in a business or marketing – related subject (Desirable)

Experience and knowledge

• Experience of working with sponsors who sponsor UK education options including pathways, direct to university and/or English language sales. Ideal candidate would come with a pre-existing network of sponsor contacts.
• International sales experience
• Demonstrable experience of partnership and project management
• Demonstrates excellent market knowledge of the UK Higher Education landscape
• Understanding of UK Visa requirements (Desirable)
• Understanding of the student recruitment journey, and opportunities to optimise outcomes at each stage (Desirable)

Skills and abilities

• Excellent command of English language
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional organisational skills
• Ability to work without close supervision and to set own priorities
• Highly numerate and IT literate

Personal qualities

• Motivated to exceed targets
• Leads by example, demonstrating professionalism, integrity, commitment and drive
• Adopts a collaborative approach to working
• Responds positively to new challenges, seeking solutions

This job description is provided as a guide to the role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive description of duties and responsibilities and may be subject to periodic revision.

Oxford International is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. This role involves working with children and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Oxford International is an equal opportunity employer. Every applicant and employee has the same opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.