International Admissions and Conversion Officer

Birmingham Metropolis College is a big and various place to review proper within the coronary heart of town and we at present have an thrilling alternative throughout the Worldwide Workplace for an Worldwide Admissions and Conversion Officer.  

The post-holder will present an efficient and environment friendly admissions service for each inside and exterior prospects, and by so doing obtain the goal for the recruitment of worldwide college students in step with the College’s internationalisation technique.

In return we provide a beneficiant pension and annual go away provision. We additionally function a hybrid working mannequin that permits employees to mix on-site and distant working the place acceptable, depending on work duties. We additionally present entry to wonderful services on campus, together with supportive household pleasant insurance policies.

The appointed candidate will usually be employed by way of our subsidiary firm BCU Assist Providers Restricted, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Birmingham Metropolis College.

OUR VISION

Birmingham Metropolis College is rising in high quality and standing, with an educational STEAM agenda on the coronary heart of our ambitions. We’re remodeling the lives of scholars and their communities, and need excellent individuals to affix us in taking us on the following stage of our thrilling journey.  

Our college students be taught by way of doing. They’re empowered all through their academic journey, reaching important academic acquire and private transformation.  

There has by no means been a greater time to affix us. Come and be a part of the following thrilling stage of our journey.

ABOUT BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY

On the coronary heart of our 2025 Technique is our mission is to allow our college students to rework their lives and to realize their potential. By means of our training and analysis, and the roles our graduates go on to play on this planet, we not solely assist people to rework their lives, however we additionally play an element in remodeling society.

Situated within the centre of the UK’s second metropolis, we’re a college with an extended heritage of innovation and of constructing, courting again to our origins in 1843 after we have been based because the Birmingham Authorities College of Design.  

Our heritage of constructing by way of innovation and its software by way of information alternate, and of inventive analysis and follow, immediately finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our analysis and enterprise, and in our dedication to challenge-based studying. Working throughout disciplines, and delivering impactful analysis and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is on the coronary heart of the persevering with transformation of our tutorial portfolio. 

OUR STAFF COMMUNITY 

Birmingham is house to a wealthy and various vary of communities.  Our college students mirror this wealthy cultural combine, and we’re persevering with to work to guarantee that that is additionally mirrored in our broader college group. 

Birmingham Metropolis College values the standard and variety of our employees. Our employees and scholar group is outlined by our core values, which define who we’re as a College and the way we work with one another. Our core values are we create alternative, we expect in another way, and we construct group. 

We’re dedicated to equality, range and inclusion, repeatedly reviewing and bettering our insurance policies, practices, and procedures to make sure that we’re selling these in all points of our operations. We consider that by working collectively, combining our many alternative backgrounds and life experiences, we’ll empower one another to achieve our full potential. 

We maintain an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our dedication to bettering employment practices for the development of gender equality.

Our College is situated in one of the culturally wealthy and various Cities within the UK, and it’s our ambition to be the College for Birmingham and the encompassing area. The occasions of 2020 have highlighted the stark inequalities that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities face and we’re dedicated to eradicating the institutional obstacles that our employees and college students face and enhance the illustration, development and success of employees and college students from all backgrounds inside larger training.  To show this, we’ve signed as much as the Race Equality Constitution to point out our dedication.

Birmingham Metropolis College has been recognised for its progress on LGBT+ equality with a Gold award within the Stonewall Index and have entered the High 100 Employers 2023 for LGBT+ inclusion. In the meantime, we’re Incapacity Assured (Dedicated) and are on an thrilling journey to advance our College to progress by way of the Incapacity Assured scheme.

We’re additionally a Aware Employer, which suggests we’re dedicated to supporting the psychological well being and well-being of our employees, and we’ve additionally signed as much as the Psychological Well being Constitution led by scholar psychological well being charity Pupil Minds.   Moreover, we’re signed as much as The Technician Dedication – a college and analysis establishment initiative supported by the Science Council and Gatsby Basis – aiming to make sure visibility, recognition, profession growth and sustainability for technicians working in larger training and analysis.

WORKING AND LIVING IN BIRMINGHAM

The youngest metropolis in Europe with under-25s accounting for almost 40% of the inhabitants, Birmingham is a metropolis filled with power and enthusiasm and is a good place to dwell and work.

Based mostly within the coronary heart of England, town is well accessible by street, rail and air. Birmingham New Road station has just lately undergone main redevelopment, whereas town is on the coronary heart of the high-speed rail community, HS2.  HS2 will present new speedy rail journey connecting Birmingham Metropolis Centre to London and the remainder of the community from the brand new Curzon Road Station – adjoining to Birmingham Metropolis College’s Metropolis Centre Campus – and will likely be one of the environmentally pleasant stations on this planet.

Town’s urge for food for development is boundless, and it has been championing innovation for the reason that earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, mirrored in Birmingham Metropolis College’s new STEAMhouse constructing which opened in October 2022 and is house to an inter-disciplinary group of entrepreneurs, companies, tutorial researchers, and college students providing a wealth of assist to corporations of all sizes to spice up progress by way of innovation to handle industrial and societal challenges.

Birmingham is brimming with nice theatres, museums, the world-famous Birmingham Metropolis College Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, in addition to lovely historic buildings and the enduring Library of Birmingham. It additionally has superb live performance and sporting venues together with Edgbaston Cricket floor, which Birmingham Metropolis College has a long-standing partnership with.  It is usually house to the Alexander Stadium, which is the gorgeous new house for Birmingham Metropolis College’s sport programs.  The Stadium was one of many most important occasion areas for the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games in 2022, which noticed the eyes of the world on town, and Birmingham Metropolis College employees and college students performed pivotal roles – together with designing the official medals for successful athletes. 

Birmingham’s vibrant eating scene presents one thing for all tastes, together with Michelin star eating places, Spiceal Road on the Bullring, the Chinese language Quarter, and the well-known Balti Triangle.

Town additionally supplies an important place to buy, being house the Bullring and Grand Central, the luxurious Mailbox Birmingham and the world-famous house of British bling – the Jewelry Quarter, which is house to Birmingham Metropolis College’s College of Jewelry.

From Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and the attractive arcades and independents, to town’s historic markets in Digbeth, the outlets in Birmingham supply a plethora of selection.

BCU Values underpin how we work in reaching the ambitions set out in our Technique and Priorities, and are the rules that unite the way in which we work collectively and for our college students.