Country Officer, West Africa at Aston University

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 Apply
Interested 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.