Student Market Research Officer

King's College London; London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

King's College London is seeking a Student Market Research Officer to enhance recruitment strategies through detailed market analysis. The successful candidate will leverage their analytical skills to provide insights that inform and improve student recruitment targets, working in a collaborative environment focused on academic excellence and diversity.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level and/or proven experience in data collection, analysis and reporting.
• Experience utilising data analysis tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Conducting market research and analysing data.
• Producing reports to inform data-driven decision making.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to provide actionable insights.

Skills

Data collection

Data analysis

Reporting

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree level education

Tools

Excel

SPSS

Google Analytics

Job description

About Us

King’s College London is the leading destination for ambitious students from across the world because of our academic excellence, reputation and research impact. Our focus is ensuring the best possible student experience, from the beginning of their journey with us as prospective students through to enrolment so that our students can thrive in our diverse and inclusive community in central London.

The Global Student Recruitment and Admissions directorate delivers marketing, student recruitment and admissions services in partnership with Faculties, creating strategies to attract growing numbers of students from across global markets, as well as from the UK.

As a directorate we are responsible for the delivery of student recruitment targets, ensuring cohesive recruitment strategies and planning from lead generations and attraction, admissions, through to conversion and enrolment.

About The Role

The Student Market Research, Insights and Planning team play a critical role in providing data and insights related to the student journey to enable the development of strategies to achieve the university’s student recruitment targets. The Student Market Research Officer will be responsible for conducting market research, analysing data and producing reports to inform data-driven decision making,

The role will develop and implement research plans, collaborating with various stakeholders to provide actionable insights that support the development of the university’s marketing and student recruitment strategies.

The research will cover academic and cognate areas as well as geographical regions and markets, so some travel will be required.

This post will be offered on a full time indefinite contract

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential Criteria

• Educated to degree level and/or proven experience in data collection, analysis and reporting.
• Experience utilising data analysis tools and software (e.g. Excel SPSS, Google Analytics) to collate information and produce reports.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to form and maintain excellent relationship with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-changing environment and meet challenging deadlines.
• Able to work on own initiative, able to identify and resolve issues promptly and/or escalating where required.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience working within the Higher Education sector.
  
  

Downloading a Copy Of Our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.

Grade and Salary: £38,482- £43,249 per annum including London Weighting Allowance

Job ID: 117207

Close Date: 23-Jun-2025

Contact Person: Dorothea Ganczarczy

Contact Details: Dorothea.Ganczarczyk @kcl.ac.uk