Recruitment Manager, Student Recruitment, Rest of East Asia

Shorelight; Indonesia; On-site; IDR 100,000,000 - 200,000,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Assistant Recruitment Manager to drive student recruitment strategies across East Asia, with a focus on Indonesia. This dynamic role involves managing relationships with schools and universities, executing marketing campaigns, and ensuring a seamless recruitment process for prospective students. The ideal candidate will possess strong sales and account management skills, along with a strategic mindset to achieve enrollment targets. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in the international education sector while working collaboratively with a dedicated team. If you are passionate about education and eager to foster global citizenship, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in international education/recruitment in Indonesia.
• Strong sales and account management skills required.

Responsibilities

• Execute student recruitment strategies for university partners.
• Manage key channel accounts to achieve enrollment targets.
• Travel extensively for recruitment and outreach activities.

Skills

Sales Skills

Account Management

Communication Skills

Customer Service

Strategic Thinking

Pressure Resilience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Marketing

Bachelor's Degree in Communications

Bachelor's Degree in Business

Bachelor's Degree in International Relations

Tools

Technology Reporting Programs

Job description

Recruitment Manager, Student Recruitment,

Rest of East Asia

About Us

Shorelight is reinventing the international education experience for students worldwide. Based in Boston, the company works directly with top-ranked, nonprofit American universities to build innovative programs and high-touch, technology-driven services that help talented students thrive and become global citizens.

Job Overview

The Assistant Recruitment Manager, Student Recruitment, assists in executing a student recruitment strategy across Rest of East Asia (focus on Indonesia, Singapore) that targets international students seeking U.S. university degrees. The role includes account management of Shorelight’s regional network of recruiters, schools, and universities, along with building and managing direct-to-student marketing campaigns that drive enrollments to Shorelight’s university partners. This role is based in Indonesia, reporting to Regional Director, Rest of East Asia.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute Shorelight’s university partners’ student recruitment strategies, partnering with the Recruitment Manager, REA as well as Shorelight’s Marketing Team for all marketing and advertising strategies and collateral.
• Help manage key channel accounts and partnerships to achieve enrollment targets for all university partnerships.
• Maintain a data-driven approach to recruitment, monitoring enrollment trends, and reporting on all phases of recruitment process to the Recruitment Manager, Rest of East Asia, using technology systems.
• Maintain maximum levels of competitor awareness, product knowledge, and market intelligence.
• Travel extensively to attend recruitment and outreach activities, seminars, conferences, meetings, and training events to build strong and lasting relationships with current and prospective students, families, faculty, staff, agents, partners, and other external institutions and vendors.
• Execute efficient and streamlined processes for all stages of the recruitment process (inquiry, application, assessment, offer, acceptance, visa applications, orientation, etc.) with a strong focus on conversion of inquiries to applications.
• Work effectively with the university liaisons to ensure smooth entry into the school or program (working with finance offices on incoming deposits, tracking of payments, processing of agent contracts and commissions, as necessary; assisting incoming students with form completion; coordinating arrival transportation for new, incoming students; etc.).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in marketing, communications, business, international relations, or related area.
• 3+ years of experience in the international education/recruitment industry in Indonesia.
• Strong sales and account management skills.
• Proven track record of working collaboratively in a matrix governance model.
• Strategic-minded and sales-driven, with strong drive for results, and pressure-resilient.
• Proficient with technology and reporting programs/systems.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Exemplary customer service skills and ability to foster a customer service ethic within the team.
• Willingness to travel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Existing network and relationships within the education industry in Indonesia.
• Strong working knowledge of key international markets, programs, and products; and US higher education are all pluses.
• Eligibility to work in the hiring location without sponsorship.

Application Process

To apply for this position, please visit the Shorelight Careers page to submit an application with a resume and cover letter.

Shorelight is an Equal Opportunity Employer.