"Associate Director, UK Student Recruitment"

University of Southampton - UK Student Recruitment Team

Placed On: 23rd February 2026

Closes: 12th March 2026

Job Ref: 3345126NP

Join us and be part of an ambitious new expansion of our UK Student Recruitment Team.

We are seeking to appoint to a position that will grow our UK Student Recruitment Team and extend our reach across the UK. This role provides an exciting opportunity to join the University at a time of continued growth, and to develop your student recruitment career by delivering innovative and impactful student recruitment strategies and activities.

The University of Southampton is a research-intensive university and a founding member of the Russell Group. Ranked 17th in the UK, 33rd in Europe and 39th globally with a diverse community of students from over 130 countries. We are standing out across the Higher Education sector, and our UK Student Recruitment Team will be a key part of delivering our future ambitions.

Associate Director, UK Student Recruitment: You will lead the development of UK student recruitment strategies across the University. This will include identifying and implementing new, innovative and ambitious approaches to UK activity. With responsibility for managing an overall team of nine recruitment professionals and graduate roles, this post will lead the development of recruitment plans to target regions and schools/colleges, identifying opportunities for growth of the University’s UK student recruitment pipeline, contributing to ambitious growth targets and delivering programmes of activities to meet them, whilst ensuring delivery of the University’s strategic objectives.

For this post, you will demonstrate a passion and commitment to recruiting UK students and an ability to enhance our undergraduate and postgraduate offer in this key region.

What we can offer you

Working at the University of Southampton gives you access to a wide range of benefits in addition to our competitive rates of pay. All our benefits can be viewed here.

As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work. We welcome applications from candidates who are committed to helping us create an inclusive work environment.

Interviews will take place in Southampton as indicated.

For further details about the post, you are invited to contact Amanda Hall, Deputy Director of Global Recruitment, Admissions & Marketing, a.l.hall@soton.ac.uk.

Application procedure

You should submit your completed online application form at www.jobs.soton.ac.uk via the associated job advert.