Admissions and Outreach Coordinator
Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 8PE14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
7 September 2026
Closing date
6 July 2026 at 9am
Date listed
22 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,343 to £26,818 per annum
Pay scale
- Support Staff Pay Spine Point 8 to Point 9
What skills and experience we're looking for
Do you like working with a wide range of people, have excellent interpersonal skills, are extremely well organised and love the idea of a varied role where you can directly impact student experience? If your answer is yes, then this could be the ideal position for you. We are looking for a full-time Admissions and Outreach Coordinator to join our Admissions team.
Ideally with admissions and/or outreach experience, you must enjoy working with people and want to make a positive contribution to our work. Admissions is a busy and exciting environment for which strong teamwork and a solution-based outlook are essential.
Person Specification
Essential:
- Level three qualification, e.g. three A levels at grade C or above or BTEC merit
- Customer service experience
- Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Outlook
- Full UK Driving License
Desirable:
- Qualified to degree level
- Experience of working in an education environment
- Experience in using databases and email marketing systems
What the school offers its staff
We offer great team-work and a varied workload, an attractive salary, 24 days annual leave rising to 27 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays, generous pension scheme, free use of our on-site sports centre, including a newly refurbished gymnasium, wellbeing activities, discounts on all our Adult Education courses, free onsite parking, cycle to work scheme and ongoing professional development.
Further information about the job
In any given week, you could be helping to organise a college transition day, contacting schools to offer outreach workshops, answering parent enquiries, liaising with the support team about a particular applicant, or working through student data to support the next stage in the applicant journey. The role is extremely varied, and there is a genuine opportunity to contribute your experience and ideas.
We have established the foundations of a growing Outreach and Widening Participation Programme, which we are keen to develop further. Experience in this area, or in a related role such as careers, enrichment, or student engagement, would be beneficial but is not essential. More important is a genuine interest in extending opportunities for young people, an understanding of the potential barriers they may face, and enthusiasm for helping to shape and grow this area of the College’s work.
Purpose: To support the delivery of the College’s admissions process, outreach activities, and widening participation initiatives, ensuring a high-quality experience for all stakeholders.
Reports to: Head of Admissions
Main Accountabilities:
- Ensure a customer-focused approach is embedded throughout all processes, delivering a high-quality experience for all stakeholders.
- Support the Head of Admissions with the activities across the annual admissions cycle, including applications, data management, guidance meetings, offers, transition activities, and enrolment.
- Act as the first point of contact for admissions enquiries whether they are face-to-face, via telephone or email. Includes managing the admissions email inboxes and departmental diary.
- Develop positive working relationships with key staff across the College, in particular Heads of Department, Estates, Curriculum and Information Services.
- Work with Marketing colleagues to manage the creation and distribution of communications to applicants throughout the admissions cycle.
- Coordinate the College’s annual programme of outreach and widening participation activities in liaison with the Head of Admissions. Dependent on experience, lead on the ongoing development and delivery of the programme.
- Liaison with the Performing Arts team to organise outreach workshops and support the development of similar activities with other curriculum areas overtime.
- Organise the College’s post-16 information evenings (September and October), including organising the staff and student rotas, managing communications, preparing supporting materials, and attending a small number of events to provide admissions advice, alongside other colleagues.
- Support the development and delivery of the Student Ambassador Programme to assist with admissions events and outreach activities.
- Organise and run small-group tours throughout the autumn and winter term, in conjunction with the Student Ambassadors.
- Coordinate communication with Heads of Department at key times in the admissions cycle, including summer work, and promotional content to support major events.
- Maintain and update admissions information on the College’s public facing website and internal SharePoint pages, to ensure content is accurate and aligned with the annual cycle.
- Assist with the preparation and delivery of the College’s events in June and July, including the Open Events, and transition days for offer holders.
- Support the planning and delivery of enrolment for new Year 12 students in late August and early September.
- demonstrate behaviour and values consistent with the person specification for this role
- promote equality of opportunity in accordance with the college’s Equality and Diversity Statement
- maintain high standards of attendance and punctuality
- To comply with all college policies and procedures. This includes those where each member of staff has an individual duty to act and for which the college can be held vicariously responsible for the actions of its employees:
Accountabilities that relate to all staff at the college
o equality and diversity
o safeguarding the welfare of young people
health and safety
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
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About Hills Road Sixth Form College
- School type
- Academy, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- Sixth form or college
- School size
- No information available
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hills Road Sixth Form College website
- Email address
- recruitment@hillsroad.ac.uk
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