[Job Vacancy] Country Officer, West Africa at Aston University

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Aston University is the UK’s leading university for business and the professions. Founded in 1895 and a University since 1966, Aston University is internationally recognised for being a research-led University and known for its world-class teaching quality and strong industry partnerships, government and commerce.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Country Officer, West Africa

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

The individual must provide evidence of working in a fast-paced and target-driven organization within the International education sector and delivering on ambitious growth targets.
He/she must possess the ability to take initiative and able to work with minimum supervision.
The role is critical to achieving our international goal of diversification in nationality, subject and level cohorts at Aston University.
You will have the chance to work in a friendly and highly professional international recruitment team

Responsibilities and KPI

Achieving 30% Growth in enrolment from the Agent Pipeline
Training and sharing updates with agents across the region
Developing new relationships and partnerships in new markets
Able to travel to overseas markets for university business
Representing the University professionally at all events within Nigeria and overseas as may be assigned by the Regional Manager, Africa.
Delivering training at agent offices within the region
Actively contributing to a high conversion rate of direct applicants’ pipeline
Representing the University competently and in an acceptable manner at virtual and physical events including fairs, exhibitions, job fairs etc
Consistently delivering to deadline and within the business timeline
Promoting Aston University in the most professional and efficient manner
Achieving 24-hour response time to emails from internal and external clients
Take the lead on new projects as assigned by the Regional Manager, Africa
Performing any other tasks that may be assigned by the Regional Manager, Africa.

Requirements

Interested candidates should possess relevant qualifications
Minimum of 4 years of consistent and verifiable experience within the international student recruitment sector
Be a Good team player
Good and efficient customer service
Possesses strong and impeccable character and integrity
Excellent email and oral literacy
A Good team player who can work and relate across a multi-disciplinary team
Able to travel at short notice and up to 10 weeks annually
Excellent report-writing skills.
Have a track record of exceeding sales and growth target
Strong people management skills
Excellent presentation skills and ability to demonstrate competence in hosting virtual and physical events
Excellent organizational skills and management
A good university degree with a postgraduate qualification is preferable

Benefits

Exposure to training and development opportunities
Paid annual leave
Attractive salary plus performance-related bonus.
Visiting the UK for training purposes
Annual Health Care benefit

How to ApplyInterested and qualified candidates should their CV and 3-paragraph cover letter in a single PDF attachment to [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail

Application Deadline  2nd March, 2023.