Job reference: SAE-030560
Salary: £32,080 - £36,636 per annum depending on experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Permanent
Division/Team: FSE Communications and Marketing
Hours Per Week: 35 hours per week (1 FTE)
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 15/01/2026
Contract Duration: Permanent
School/Directorate: Faculty Office - Science and Engineering

Job Description


What the role entails:

The Faculty of Science and Engineering at The University of Manchester is excited to present the opportunity for a new role as Student Recruitment and Marketing Coordinator with a Postgraduate Research focus.

The team are looking to appoint a creative, enthusiastic individual to help us deliver a wide range of marketing activity to support student recruitment into our Postgraduate Research Programmes. Reporting to the Faculty Marketing and Recruitment Officer they will play a key role in the Faculty of Science and Engineering Student Marketing and Recruitment Team.

The successful candidate will have experience of working in a student marketing and recruitment environment, working in partnership with academics. We are looking for someone who can create and deliver marketing campaigns to attract potential students from around the world to join our world class research community.

The successful candidate will have experience of creating inspirational marketing content and collateral and feel comfortable organising and delivering recruitment activities, which may include faculty Open Days and virtual events, as well as representing the University of Manchester at external events

You’ll have some experience using CRM systems to communicate with segmented audiences, and be comfortable using data to inform campaign planning as well as evaluating the success of your activities.

As a natural collaborator and an excellent communicator, you will build up excellent working relationships with academic and professional services staff and students across departments in the Faculty.


What you will get in return:

  • Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
  • Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
  • Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
  • Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
  • Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers


As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.


Please note this role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route of the Points Based System. Candidates will need to be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK in order to be eligible to take up the post.


Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Joseph Phelan

Email: joseph.phelan@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home


This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.



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