• Employment Type: Full Time
• Duration: Fixed Term (January 2025 until August 2025)
• Remuneration: $123K-$130K+ 17% superannuation
• Location: Kensington UNSW Campus

About UNSW

UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community; a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. It’s the reason we’re one of the top 20 universities in the world and a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.

Why Your Role Matters

The Senior Recruitment Product Manager is responsible for Faculty product portfolio management and achievement of program level recruitment targets for either a sole faculty or portfolio of faculties dependant on size. This role optimises the positioning of faculty programs, takes new programs to market, improves depth of product recruitment knowledge and delivers tailored faculty recruitment activity via both centrally driven and faculty specific initiatives. The successful person will be instrumental in the setting and achievement of program level future student load planning targets and works alongside faculty stakeholders to develop new programs ensuring sustained future growth for the faculty product portfolio.

This role is a key point of contact between the Faculty and Future Student Recruitment team, ensuring that faculty needs are understood and met whilst working collaboratively with the Central recruitment teams both domestically and internationally as well as the Marketing Strategy and Content Team to deliver better outcomes for the UNSW community.

The role reports to the Head of Future Student Recruitment, with a dotted reporting line into one or two Future Student Faculty Partners and has a couple of direct reports.

Main Responsibilities Summary

• Drive achievement of faculty recruitment numbers for under and post-graduate programs locally and internationally
• Represent faculty at leadership meetings, sales meetings, and student recruitment events
• Develop and deliver faculty recruitment activities to meet student enrolment KPIs
• Collaborate with Heads of Schools/Program Directors to enhance program positioning
• Work with faculty stakeholders to develop new programs and ensure sustained growth
• Inform realistic program level and faculty portfolio student load planning targets
• Improve faculty product knowledge and training materials for recruitment activities
• Maintain detailed knowledge of external market forces affecting the faculty
• Produce recruitment activity reports for senior management
• Shape central and bespoke marketing campaigns with faculty input

You can access the full extent of the tasks on the job description.

Who You Are

We are looking for someone who is aligned with UNSW’s vision and values, who enjoys being collaborative and has experience working in a large and complex environment. We’d love you to come equipped with:

• Substantial experience in sales, with an understanding of product marketing
• Strong commercial acumen and achievement orientation in a KPI driven sales/marketing context. An ability to set targets, plan complex work plans with competing priorities and review return on investment of activity
• Experience planning and running events
• Excellent relationship management skills, with a demonstrated track record of fostering and maintaining strong and successful internal and external networks, supporting successful outcomes
• Highly developed organisational and time management skills
• Demonstrated leadership skills and demonstrated people management experience
• Demonstrated experience reviewing and interpreting data
• Higher Education and premium brand experience across local and international markets is highly desirable

Working hours are Monday to Friday, business hours. The team works in a hybrid environment (3 days on campus – 2 days home), however there is an expectation to be onsite 5 days a week in the lead up to key student events. We’re looking for someone to ideally start in January. This is a parental leave contract, expected to finish in August 2025.

Candidates will need to be based in NSW and have full working rights – this role is not available for sponsorship.

Benefits and Culture: People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world.  Our benefits include: 

• Access to up to 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments 
• Additional 3 days of leave over the end of the year period 
• Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness)

Recruitment process: Please submit your resume as well as cover letter outlining your interest for the role and how your experience aligns against each point of the “who you are “ section (2 pages maximum).

The shortlisting process won’t start before the job ad closes, so don’t worry if you don’t hear from us until then.

You can send via the ‘Apply Now’ button. A copy of the Position Description can be found  on JOBS@UNSW.

Applications close:  27 November 2024 5PM

Get in touch for any questions or support: Anne de Voronine, Talent Acquisition Coordinator, a.de_voronine@unsw.edu.au

Applications cannot be accepted if sent directly to the contact listed

UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff. The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.