International Officer (North America) - King's College London

  • United States
  • Permanent
  • Education Consulting
  • 2 - 5 years
Job Title:

International Officer (North America) - King's College London

Job Description:

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Sannam S4 helps leading educational institutions develop and succeed in high-growth education markets, including North America.

Sannam S4 is seeking an International Officer (North America) to provide recruitment support and partnership development for King’s College London.

King's College London is one of the top 10 UK universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2020) and the fourth oldest university in England. It is research-led and based in the heart of London. King's is dedicated to internationalization: The College's diversity, curriculum, interdisciplinarity, London location, and global reach all combine to develop successful students, staff and alumni who can contribute to building a better, fairer world around them.

This role, as a member of Sannam S4’s higher education advisory team, will support the College’s international marketing team, focusing on the USA. The role will be home-based near a regional hub and reports to Sannam S4’s Operations Manager.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. Sannam S4 does not sponsor employment visas.

Experience Range:

2 - 5 years

Educational Qualifications:

Any graduation,

Job Responsibilities:

To enhance the capacity of the College, which is seeking to strengthen its presence in the US, this role will lead on the development and implementation of outreach and student recruitment to increase the number of full-time degree-seeking undergraduate, postgraduate and study abroad students from North America.

Key responsibilities and objectives of the job:

● Identifies opportunities – and effectively communicates these opportunities in the form of written marketing plans – to increase market visibility for King’s, advising and developing marketing and communication plans and viable opportunities in the US market across all relevant on and offline marketing channels

● Provides market insight on North America trends and makes recommendations to support informed decision making for the development of the marketing strategies of these markets.

● Liaises closely with a range of colleagues at King’s, with the first point of contact being the International Marketing Manager, and acts as a key contact for personnel visiting the USA.

● Represents King’s College London at education and recruitment fairs, conferences and school visits. Comfortable preparing and delivering presentations to a range of audiences.

● In conjunction with the Head of Digital, Content and Event Marketing, the development of online and offline marketing tools, including social media, and presence on relevant online media; and will also contribute in the development of printed materials to support international recruitment activities

● Working with the International Marketing Manager, liaises with the Alumni office to develop a system for best utilizing local alumni networks focusing on recruitment activities.

● Is a team player providing mutual support and encouragement to other team members

● Develops effective internal and external working relationships with a range of campus communities and external partners, representatives, and professional organizations, leveraging these networks to achieve targets set by King’s.

● Plans recruitment travel as part of a team, and independently executes travel and manages travel budget and expenses.

● Perform other such duties as required.

Skills Required:

Digital, Communications, Higher Education Marketing, Higher Education Recruitment, International Admissions, Public Speaking, Establishing Strategic Partnerships,

Candidate Attributes:

Knowledge of the higher education industry with a focus on UK higher education
● Knowledge of the North American secondary and post-secondary education systems
● Experience in event planning or program administration
● Experience delivering presentations and other public speaking activities
● Willingness and ability to work both independently and part of a team
● Willingness to work off-hours to accommodate the UK time-zone
● Holds a valid US driver’s license and personal car insurance.
● Minimum bachelor’s degree
● Proficiency in the use of all MS office applications
● Prior experience working within a CRM system
● Strong commitment to the student experience
● Desire and ability to travel regularly in North America and abroad.

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About Us
Sannam S4 is itself rapidly expanding into dynamic markets. Based on client demand, the Company is taking its unique support model into fast growing, dynamic and complicated markets. The Company’s aim is to be the leading market entry and expansion support partner to leading globally ambitious firms.
In the past five years alone we have assisted over 350 organizations explore enter and expand into India, China and Brazil and we are now rolling out our own support network in the further high growth markets like Australia, Canada, Colombia, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, UAE, Singapore, Thailand, U.K., U.S.A and Vietnam.

We are trusted by many of the world’s leading brands to support them in the most difficult business environments. We are passionate about what we do and committed to our own further international expansion. We employ over 200 staff, operate many offices, across multiple continents, and at virtually every working hour of the day are serving someone somewhere with their own international growth agenda.

The Sannam S4 Group consists of a number of integrated international market entry and expansion businesses. Sannam S4 also conceptualised and operates the US Business Centers, an initiative to support increased trade and investment between the US and India.
Why Us?
OUR SUCCESS IS BASED ON

1. Understanding
As an international to in-country firm, we deliver home-to-host country business support on both sides and act as a bridge between you and your target market. A fully integrated suite of services delivered by one firm, to ensure continuity and business success in the market. Our solutions are practical, implementation focused and results-driven. They are not theoretical. We seek to fully understand your needs and then deliver bespoke solutions to meet your objectives, business model and mode of entry. We are credible in all that we do, we look after your interests-our business depends on it. You can trust us to do the right thing.

2. Focus
Supporting cross border trade and investment is what we do 24×7, 365 days a year. We operate directly in some of the world’s most challenging regions, and have the experience and know how where and when you need it most. We free you up to focus on your core competencies by taking care of your back-office functions and we take the worry of local compliance away from you. Our end-to end support continues throughout your journey, giving you confidence that there is always someone in-country looking after your best interests. Our professional success is measured by your success so our objectives are aligned.
The scale of our operations and the quality of our resources mean you don’t have to invest in fixed local operations costs

OUR UNIQUENESS

1. Our approach
We are not a think-tank. We deliver practical solutions and implement them. Our processes are robust, well ‘tried and tested’, across all industry sectors and in our markets. Our approach delivers results which enable our clients to ‘hit the ground’ running.

2. Our people
Born and bred in the local market, supported by 30+ years of expatriate, local market entry, experience. Our teams are a deeply blended mix of ‘local’ and ‘foreign’ professionals, all with substantial ‘cross–border’ experience. We are client focussed and operate under a set of shared values of integrity and trust. These govern what we do and we do not compromise on these qualities.

2. Our expertise
We employ highly-skilled, ‘in-country’ professionals across all the functional disciplines needed to deliver market entry and business expansion services, across all industry sectors in challenging markets. We bring expertise from market research, compliance, tax, accounting, business development, marketing, HR, and recruitment to deliver practical solutions to your business.