Outreach Officer

Our University

Ravensbourne University London is a dynamic institution at the intersection of creativity, business, and technology. Based in London’s Design District in the heart of North Greenwich, we are home to a diverse, global community in one of the world’s most vibrant business and creative hubs.

The Role

We are looking for an Outreach Officer to join our Student Recruitment and Outreach team.

The Outreach Officer will deliver the widening access activities within our Access and Participation Plan, which aims to support young people and mature learners from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds to access higher education.  This includes outreach programmes and campaigns aimed at engaging with schools, colleges, learners, and other key stakeholders to raise awareness and understanding of the creative and digital industries and future careers within in our industry, as well as supporting journeys into higher education through skills development workshops, and providing information, advice, and guidance.

The Outreach Officer works within the Student Recruitment Marketing team and collaborates with colleagues across the Institution, including the Access and Participation team, Academic Departments, and with colleagues in Admissions, Data and Planning, Communications & Content and Student Services.

• Responsible for programming and delivering the outreach activities within our Access and Participation Plan aimed at supporting journeys into higher education through skills development workshops and careers information, advice and guidance.
• Contribute to the achievement of access targets within the University’s Access and Participation Plan (APP) by supporting and encouraging learners from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds to enrol onto our courses and by bringing forward new ideas to attract students to the University.
• Support and develop relationships with teachers and careers advisors in schools and colleges in APP priority areas. 
• Undertake visits to schools and colleges in partnership with academic staff and student ambassadors to deliver workshops and represent the University at information events. 
• Promote the full range of RUL’s Undergraduate programmes to young people, teachers, careers advisors, parents and other key stakeholders.
• Measure and analyse performance of activities using our CRM system and Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT) database. 
• Undertake the management of data capturing and evaluation for all Outreach activities, providing data reporting and analysis for our Access and Participation Plan. 
• Utilise the CRM system and Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT) database to monitor, analyse, evaluate, and report on all Outreach activities. 
• Undertake administrative support for all activities including, but not limited to; programming and promoting activities, organising logistics, itineraries, travel, materials, risk assessments and health and safety paperwork.  
• Act as an ambassador at Open Days and other Student Recruitment Marketing events on behalf of the University. 
• Manage Outreach social media platforms such as Instagram to promote our Outreach programmes. 
• Support the Outreach Manager with the management of the University’s relationships with schools, colleges, and collaborative Outreach networks.
• Deliver outreach programmes with our collaborative outreach networks - AccessHE, Linking London and Aimhigher London.
• Liaise and work collaboratively with academics across the University to support and deliver outreach activities. 

The Candidate

The ideal candidate for this role is an organised, solutions driven individual who is passionate about making education accessible to all. The candidate could come from an arts, charity, education or teaching background, as long as they have proven experience managing and coordinating projects.

We Offer

• Generous leave
• We operate a hybrid working model of on-site and working from home for most of our posts
• Competitive Pension Scheme
• An Employee Assistance programme
• A cycle-to-work scheme