🌟 We’re Hiring: Admissions Manager / Student Recruitment Lead

📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

🕒 Employment Type: Part-Time

💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior

🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are an education-focused organization committed to helping students and families access high-quality learning opportunities. We combine personalized guidance, responsive communication, and efficient admissions processes to create a positive experience from initial inquiry through enrollment.

Our culture values integrity, student success, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. We are looking for an experienced admissions professional who can lead student recruitment while maintaining high standards of service and ethical communication.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Admissions Manager / Student Recruitment Lead to oversee admissions activities, develop student recruitment strategies, manage prospective-student relationships, and support enrollment growth.

The ideal candidate is an effective communicator and relationship builder with strong admissions, sales, education consulting, and team-leadership experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate day-to-day admissions and student recruitment activities.
• Develop and implement student recruitment strategies aligned with enrollment and institutional objectives.
• Manage the prospective-student journey from initial inquiry, consultation, application, assessment, and follow-up through enrollment.
• Supervise admissions counselors, recruitment staff, coordinators, and assigned support teams.
• Set recruitment targets, monitor team performance, and provide coaching and guidance.
• Respond to inquiries from prospective students, parents, guardians, agents, and education partners.
• Provide accurate information regarding programs, admission requirements, fees, schedules, learning options, and application procedures.
• Conduct consultations to understand student goals and recommend appropriate programs or pathways.
• Review application documents and coordinate with academic teams regarding eligibility, assessments, and admission decisions.
• Maintain accurate prospective-student and applicant records in CRM or student-management systems.
• Develop and manage follow-up strategies to improve application completion and enrollment conversion.
• Coordinate open days, webinars, school visits, education fairs, information sessions, and recruitment events.
• Build relationships with schools, education consultants, community organizations, corporate partners, and other recruitment channels.
• Monitor enrollment pipelines, conversion rates, recruitment sources, and other key performance indicators.
• Prepare admissions forecasts, recruitment reports, pipeline updates, and management presentations.
• Collaborate with marketing, academic, finance, student services, and administration teams to improve the enrollment experience.
• Ensure recruitment and admissions activities follow institutional policies, ethical standards, privacy requirements, and applicable education regulations.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes, student engagement, conversion rates, and overall applicant experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Education, Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, or a related field is preferred.
• 3+ years of professional experience in admissions, student recruitment, education consulting, enrollment management, or a similar role is preferred.
• Proven experience managing admissions or recruitment teams and achieving enrollment targets.
• Strong understanding of the student recruitment and admissions lifecycle.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills.
• Strong customer-service mindset with the ability to communicate effectively with students and parents.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of recruitment funnels, lead conversion, and enrollment KPIs.
• Experience with CRM, student information systems, admissions platforms, or education-management software.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple applicants, deadlines, campaigns, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• High level of professionalism, integrity, discretion, and confidentiality.
• Knowledge of UAE education markets and international student recruitment is advantageous.
• Admissions, education counseling, recruitment, or management certifications are advantageous but not required.

What We Offer

• Flexible part-time working hours with a fully remote work arrangement.
• Competitive compensation aligned with experience and responsibilities.
• Opportunity to lead student recruitment and contribute directly to enrollment growth.
• Exposure to admissions strategy, education consulting, CRM management, recruitment marketing, and student engagement.
• Professional development opportunities and continuous training in admissions and education management.
• A student-focused environment where integrity, communication, relationship building, teamwork, and measurable recruitment results are highly valued.