Recruitment Project Manager (Job Vacancy)

Global University Systems (GUS) is one of the world’s most dynamic, inclusive, and diverse education organisations. GUS is an international network of higher education institutions, brought together by a shared passion for accessible and industry-relevant qualifications. We deliver a wide variety of programmes, including bachelor’s degree programmes, master’s degree programmes, professional training, English Language training, and corporate & executive education. When someone chooses to study at one of our institutions, whether on campus in Europe, North America, Asia or even in their own home, they are joining a network of over 100,000 students worldwide. When you decide to work with GUS, you will be joining an industry leading, global organisation that has a reach in over 150 different countries.

Position:

Our successful candidate will be confident, enthusiastic, and proactive. You have a high attention to detail, care about the quality of your work, and are always looking to improve. You’re analytical, methodical, efficient, and a great communicator. You’re a self-starter who knows how to follow the vision. You’re happy to teach others your skills and level-up your fellow teammates, and are seeking your next role because you want to help shape the future of an organization.

You’re a brilliant generalist with a track record of getting excellent work done. You want a role that’s full of variety and where you’ll be pushed to learn and do new things every week and in return, you will get to see up close and personal how a major global operation runs. You’re highly organised and focused on outcomes over inputs — you’re not happy until it’s done and you can see the impact. You’re a proactive communicator and relationship builder — creating a true collaboration with the different teams we have will be an essential part of your success in this role. You have experience in a high-performing environment that demands pace and quality of execution — this might be a fast-growing startup, consulting, or finance. You seek out feedback and honesty and you see it as an essential component in supporting your development and growth. This role would be a great fit for someone looking to understand every area of a business and develop on the path of a COO.

• The role is charged with project planning and management across functions relating to the growth of the firm. This requires detail-orientation and follow-through. This role will have significant responsibility for the road map and ensuring that the firm follows that road map to success.

• Tools and Dashboards Development: assist in developing key dashboards, SOPs, and tools to enhance team behaviour and drive system usage. Publish newsletters and announcements on FBT updates.

• Internal Updates and Reporting: provide regular updates internally to the progress of the lead/funnels and potential trends/forecasts at the Business Developer, Agent, Regional, and Program level. This may involve developing funnel views and metrics to help drive Business Development discussions, and writing documents outline key strategy or business updates.

• Sales Operations - Target setting, projections, and monitoring.

• Business Operations – Helping the CIRO to work past blockers in the business wherever you find them and supporting marketing and business development as they steer the growth of the company.

• People Operations – Maintaining the onboarding program, helping lead on planning and execution of digital and in-person corporate events.

In brief, you’ll do whatever is needed to support the department’s success as we grow.

• Excellent project management competencies including a proven track record of successful operational projects.

• Strong analytical skills including the ability to summarise quantitative concepts into a digestible format.

• Excellent ability to influence key stakeholders, work cross-functionally and autonomously.

• Ability to manage priorities simultaneously and meet time-sensitive deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong problem-solving skills, taking ownership for business problems, and using data to create lasting solutions.

• Experience working in an agile environment.

Requirements:

• Experience within a consultancy, or a high growth build environment

• Proven track record, owning and delivering high impact projects successfully. Including manufacturing/ production/ engineering or related projects

• Adaptability, experienced working on a variety of projects, including new product developments and scaling up operations

• Exceptional communication, organisational and problem-solving skills

• Proactive and self-motivated, driven to achieve results, excited by challenge and working in ambiguity

• Team player with great interpersonal skills, able to build strong relationships and handle conflict management

• Enthusiastic approach, injecting energy into colleagues and inspiring others through leading by example

• Experience with financial reporting or projections

• Proven Salesforce experience

• Time-management skills

• Achievement Orientation

• Technical Expertise

• Drive and Initiative

• Learning Agility

• Teamwork and Cooperation

• Organizational Awareness

Other information:

We acknowledge receipt of your resume for a position at Global University Systems and sincerely appreciate your interest in our company.

We will screen all applicant CVs and select the candidates whose qualifications and experience meet our requirements. Please note due to the high volume of applications we will only contact you if you are selected to continue for the next stage of the recruitment process. We wish you every success.

GUS is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.