Business Development Manager Job at Study Affairs

Study Affairs is an overseas education consultancy based in Lagos Nigeria. As an International Education Consultancy, we provide personalised customised services to students, thus, enabling them to find the right international university.

We also provide extensive services to our students ranging from career counselling, programme and university selection, application process and visa support. We have a competent team of experienced counsellors with a substantial experience and background in the field of international education.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Business Development Manager

Job Location: Ikeja Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are seeking to appoint a Business Development Manager to play a key part in supporting the delivery of successfully integrated business development, international student recruitment and marketing activities across all core target markets.
• The role holder will be responsible for the planning, organising and delivery of key strategic business development, marketing activities and campaigns, managing a high successful visa application for students and informing prospective students about opportunities to study in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, and UAE while raising the profile of Study Affairs.
• The role holder will also be responsible for increasing the volume and quality of student enquiries and subsequent application and enrollment rates.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement annual marketing and recruitment strategy and meet the objectives of the company’s growth strategy.
• Manage, develop, and support branch managers and counsellors.
• Manage the recruitment cycle budget, providing regular reports to the Directors.
• Provide initial admissions advice to both prospective and current applicants, on courses and facilities, admissions requirements, course- specific entry criteria, tuition fees, scholarships and any other issues relating to admissions.
• Manage visa checking services, coordinate strategic and professional visa counselling sessions for students, and confirm all documents are correct prior to visa submission.
• Provide leadership and coordination of the development of a high performing network of international feeder schools to undergraduate courses offered by the company’s HE partners.
• Undertakes/co-ordinates market research and competitor analysis, in the context of student recruitment, as required by the company Director.
• Plan, lead and deliver recruitment fairs and other events for the company.
• Liaise with partner institutions on behalf of applicants & ensure students are updated on their application status.
• Co-ordinate all marketing activities, social media campaigns and foreign partners visits
• Keeping track of admission decisions, statistics, and making a report to the Directors
• Ensure all entries in the database are updated for follow-up.
• This post will involve some national and international travel.

Minimum Qualification Required

• Educated to Master's level or equivalent qualification at Higher Education level.

Core Personal Skills:

• The individual must have a minimum of 3 years of work experience in the international education sector.
• Provide evidence of working in a fast paced and target driven organization within the international education sector and delivering on ambitious growth target. He/she must possess the ability to take initiative and able to work with minimum supervision.

Customer Focus and Service:

• Understands the relationship between company and customer, and the expectations of the recipient of a service Study Affairs offers, with an attitude of mind that places the needs of the customer first.

Enterprise and Support for Income Generation:

• Understands the critical importance of income generation, in particular from student recruitment, and is alert to the opportunities for increasing income.

Team Working:

• Works collaboratively and harmoniously within the team and more widely with all partners to get the job done.

Organising Work:

• Organises work for optimum effectiveness and meet deadlines, using all the resources, tools, and methods available, so that the objectives of the role, team and organisation are met.
• Ability to deal with multiple channels of enquiries, e.g., email, calls, etc.

Using IT:

• Makes optimum use of appropriate digital technology and IT systems in all aspects of the role.

Team Leadership and Management:

• Leading and managing team(s) successfully towards specific agreed outcomes in ways that engage, motivate, and develop team members.

Staff Management:

• Ensures that all staff managed are properly, deployed and developed in their role, and are enabled to make their contribution to the achievement of short- and medium-term objectives and longer-term organisational success

Resource Management:

• Ensures that the resources required are available at the right time and in the right place, and appropriately monitored, so that the work can be done effectively and efficiently.

Benefits

• Attractive salary plus performance related bonus per intake
• Paid annual leave.
• Visiting international HE partners for training purpose.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: studyaffairs@yahoo.com using the Job Position as the subject of the email.