Vacancy title:
Student Recruitment Manager, Area Manager

Jobs at:
Navitas

Deadline of this Job:
Open Until Filled

Duty Station:
Nairobi, Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: 18th August 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:
Navitas is a leading global education provider that delivers an extensive range of educational services to over 80,000 students annually through more than 120 institutions in 31 countries. We are proud to be an ASX 200 listed organisation and strive for continuous growth and excellence with students at our forefront. Navitas creates life changing opportunities for learners around the world to realise their education and career ambitions; and we’ve been doing that since we began nearly three decades ago.

Navitas promotes and embraces an inclusive and diversified workforce. We believe equality, flexibility and diversity in the workplace will deliver a rich and collaborative environment for our employees, students and clients. As such, we encourage applications from women, sexually and gender diverse people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, p

Student Recruitment Manager (ANZS)
• Job TypeFull Time
• QualificationBA/BSc/HND
• Location Nairobi
• Job Field Administration / Secretarial Human Resources / HR
Reference number SRC256

Job description

• Create life changing opportunities for learners in 31 countries
  
• Work for one of the most trusted learning organizations in the world
  
• Be surrounded by driven, passionate, respectful and adventurous individuals

Position Details
The Student Recruitment Manager (Australia, New Zealand, Singapore), located in Nairobi, is a product sales role that will execute Navitas’ regional and division student recruitment strategies throughout East Africa. A key responsibility of the SRM is to provide services to agents on behalf of the regional businesses within East Africa. This role will play an important role in driving leads/enquiry & conversion activities through agencies & other channels and delivering support services in conjunction with the business teams to support conversion from enquiry to enrolment.
The sort of person that will be successful in this role is someone who is intelligent, fun and a team player. Being organised and driven with close attention to detail and process is also key to the success in this role.

The candidate we seek will ideally have the following:

• Strong written and oral communication skills in English
  
• Tertiary qualifications in Marketing, sales or a related discipline
  
• Salesforce experience desirable
  
• An understanding of the international education industry and visa process
  
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to tailor the message to various types of audiences, i.e. Presenting benefits of Navitas to a student vs. parent vs. business partner
  
• Experience in building and managing internal and external relationships, particularly with agents
  
• Proven ability to work in a multi-cultural matrixed environment
  
• Demonstrated team player with excellent relationship management skills in a commercial, fast paced environment
  
• Ability to articulate the benefits/value proposition of Navitas products
  
• Emotional intelligence – ability to build relationships and influence
  
• Responsive – acts with urgency and outcome driven
  
• Results oriented – driven to succeed
  

Working at Navitas
At Navitas we recognise that our success is driven by our people. Your professional development, health and wellbeing is very important to us, and we take pride in offering a range of programs to celebrate our talent, develop capabilities and support our staff. We offer competitive remuneration packages, a generous incentive payment plan that rewards an individual’s high performance, flexible working arrangements and outstanding long-term career opportunities, both within Australia and abroad.
NaviGROW, is an extensive range of professional development programs for employees
NaviLEAD, is a leadership development program that encourages succession planning;
Virgin Pulse Global Challenge, is a wellness initiative that aims to improve the health, performance and engagement of our employees

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a voluntary and confidential counselling service
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a vehicle for Navitas to partner with charitable and not-for-profit organisations by providing annual funds]

Area Manager (East Africa)
• Job TypeFull Time
• QualificationBA/BSc/HND
• Location Nairobi
• Job Field Sales / Marketing

Job description
Reference number SRC242

Position Details

The Area Manager (AM), located in Nairobi, is responsible for pro-actively driving agent and direct channel performance throughout East Africa. They will work closely with product specialist training and ensure support to all channels. The AM will support the Regional Manager in relationship management of all the agent channel partners. They will support the development and execution of the strategic marketing plan with the aim of driving market development, diversification and achieving student enrolment targets for all Navitas business units. To do this they will work closely with their Regional Manager and the product sales team. The role requires a practical knowledge of marketing and sales within the international education environment and specifically student recruitment through agent networks for study abroad.

The candidate we seek will ideally have the following:

• Can be understood in written and spoken English and preferably one local language
  
• Understanding of the international education industry
  
• Successful sales and marketing experience
  
• Has used CRM tools to drive business decisions
  
• Customer focussed
  
• Demonstrated innovative thinking and proactive work habits including an eye for detail and for new sales opportunities
  
• Demonstrated and proven ability to support marketing campaigns and sales tactics which have made a strong contribution to sustainable business growth
  
• Demonstrated ability to deliver to tight deadlines, changing priorities and to take accountability for decisions and outcomes
  
• Good interpersonal, negotiation, presentation and communication skills
  
• Demonstrated flexible attitude to work (e.g. in hours and content), including a willingness to work weekends and evenings in support of recruitment activities both locally and internationally
  
• Demonstrated and proven ability to work autonomously and collaborate as a team player
  
• Relevant tertiary education
  
• Is an advocate of the benefits of Salesforce.com
  
• Collaborative
  
• Culturally sensitive, ethical and globally aware
  
• Creative yet analytical, organised, structured