School Admissions Manager

International Schools Partnership; Qatif; On-site; SAR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational organization is seeking a Head of Admissions in Qatif, Saudi Arabia. This senior role focuses on attracting students and overseeing the admissions process, nurturing relationships with families, and collaborating with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in business administration, strong leadership, data management skills, and fluency in Italian. An understanding of international markets is advantageous. This position offers an opportunity to influence recruitment strategies and create excellent family experiences.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Health and wellness programs

Qualifications

• Excellent command of Italian (written and spoken); knowledge of English is an advantage.
• Strong background in education sector recruitment and retention.
• Experience handling and analysing admissions data.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Schools Admissions process ensuring exceptional family experience.
• Nurture relationships with prospective families and other stakeholders.
• Monitor and develop lead generation activities.

Skills

Leadership skills

Data management

Customer experience

Analytical skills

Communication

Organisational skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in business administration or a related field

Tools

CRM systems (HubSpot or Salesforce)

Job description

Position at Centro Studi Alexandria Srl

Head of Admissions – Alexandria

This is a senior role, responsible for attracting and driving student enrolments to meet ambitious targets, building relationships with prospective families, and collaborating with all stakeholders involved in the admissions process. The role will oversee lead conversion (generated by our marketing team) to enrolment. This is a role for someone who is a natural leader, performance‑driven, and comfortable with using data strategically.

The Head of Admissions reports directly to the Head of the school and has a functional reporting line to the Regional Head of Admissions. The Head of Admissions is a member of the School Senior Leadership Team.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise prospective parents & stakeholders on our value proposition across all sales channels.
• Lead the Schools Admissions process, nurturing the sales funnel, ensuring exceptional family experience, customer service, negotiation, objection handling, commercial scripts, and parent communications.
• Follow up all potential leads to warm prospective sales and convert to new enrolments.
• Create, organise, and deploy innovative open days and recruitment events (virtual and presential), and admissions meetings with excellent customer experience service.
• Support the School responsible in carrying out assessment of prospective students per the admissions policy.
• Implement all policies and documentation related to student admissions with stakeholder support following ISP guidelines.
• Monitor and develop lead generation activities, work with Marketing and Admissions heads to meet targets.
• Collaborate with the Head of School and SLT to develop programmes and campaigns such as referral schemes and scholarships.
• Review and develop admissions documents, parent communication platforms and marketing collaterals.
• Ensure implementation of ISP customer service and experience standards and conduct regular training for admissions team front‑facing staff.

Networking & Building Relationships

• Develop and nurture mutually beneficial relationships with feeder schools, nurseries, universities, local businesses, government entities, education agents and other organisations.
• Support the Head of School with participation in national and regional conferences and events.
• Collaborate closely with parent‑facing administrative staff for outstanding coordination and visitor experience.
• Advise on continued support and communication to new families after enrolment – after‑sales care.
• Ensure a customer loyalty programme aligned with the regional programme.

Enrolment Targets & Data Management

• Work with the leadership team to establish recruitment and retention targets through demand appetite, enrolment data and trend analysis.
• Lead preparation of comprehensive reports based on data analysis and provide recommendations for recruitment tactics.
• Maintain the CRM system with up‑to‑date, accurate information for tracking prospective students.
• Take ownership for agreed retention targets and ensure structured, personalised approaches for retaining families.

Team Coordination & Management

The Head of Admissions is responsible for leading and coordinating the admissions team, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and operational efficiency. This includes setting clear goals, overseeing daily activities, providing guidance, professional development, and fostering a high‑performance culture.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in business administration or a related field.
• Excellent command of Italian (written and spoken); working knowledge of English is an advantage.
• Familiarity with Italian and international markets.
• Demonstrable experience in the commercial service sector, ideally in education sector recruitment and retention.
• Strong data management, analytical skills and proficiency in technology for organising, analysing admissions data and generating reports.
• Experience managing a CRM system (HubSpot or Salesforce preferred).
• Articulate, communicative, and able to present information concisely and professionally.
• Excellent organisational and prioritising skills.
• Excellent customer experience skills.
• Critical thinking.
• Leadership skills – ability to manage self and a team effectively and work cross‑functionally.
• Initiative, negotiation, persuasion, motivation skills, and solution orientation.

ISP Principles

Begin with our children and students – their success is our success. Wellbeing and safety are essential for learners and learning.

Treat everyone with care and respect, embrace differences and promote the wellbeing of self and others.

Operate effectively: focus relentlessly on the most important things that make the most difference, apply school policies and embody shared ideas.

Are financially responsible: make careful financial choices based on the needs of the children, students and schools.

Learn continuously: positively engage with personal and professional development and school improvement.

ISP Commitment to Safeguarding Principles

ISP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All post holders are subject to appropriate vetting procedures, including an online due diligence search, references and satisfactory Criminal Background Checks or equivalent covering the previous 10 years of employment history.

ISP Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

ISP is committed to strengthening our inclusive culture by identifying, hiring, developing and retaining high‑performing teammates regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender expression, age, disability status, neurodivergence, socio‑economic background or other demographic characteristics. Candidates who share our vision and principles and are interested in contributing to the success of ISP through this role are strongly encouraged to apply.