Student Recruitment Project Officer

Working within the context of a developing student recruitment strategic framework during a period of transformational change for the university partnership, this is a key fixed-term role to provide essential operational capacity alongside supporting the further development and continuous improvement of UHI's Course Information and Updates requirements for prospective students.
Reporting to the Student Recruitment and Marketing Manager, and working closely with student recruitment, marketing, academic and professional services colleagues across the UHI partnership, this role is ideal for someone with a strong customer service orientated mindset who can demostrate experience delivering excellent customer focussed communications and information.
Bringing a combined ability for excellent communication and relationship management skills alongside strong data literacy, reporting and attention to detail, the successful candidate for this exciting role will be a champion of the UHI brand, student experience and high quality provision.
Funded as part of a fixed term growth project within the university's Student Recruitment and Growth portfolio, this role is funded to the end of July 2028. Whilst there may be an opportunity for this role to transition into a longer-term or permanent position at the end of this period, there is no guarantee of extension.
Opportunities for secondment are welcomed.

The starting salary for this position will normally be in the range £29,145 to £31,849 per annum.
This post is fulltime, fixed-term to end-July 2028, and will involve working 35 hours per week on a working pattern as agreed with your line manager.
This post is subject to a Disclosure Scotland Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme check, so please let us know if you are currently a PVG scheme member.
The workplace pension scheme we provide to workers grade five and below is the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). This is a qualifying pension scheme, which means it meets or exceeds the government's standards. Full information about the scheme can be found on the Highland Council's Pension Fund website .
Full-time posts carry a total of 42 days leave per annum. It is practice that, with the exception of a Christmas and New Year closure, leave may be taken at any time of year, subject to the requirements of the post and department and with the permission of your line manager.
Recruitment Process
When completing the application form please ensure that you clearly evidence how you meet the selection criteria identified on the relevant person specification.
The deadline for submitting your application is Sunday 29th November 2026 at 11.59pm.
Shortlisting will take place the week commencing 30th November 2026
If you have any queries regarding our recruitment and selection process, or if you would like to request any reasonable adjustments to either the recruitment process or the prospective job, please contact the as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held w/c 7th December 2026.