Selection and Outreach Co-ordinator

**Selection and Outreach Co-ordinator**

**Salary £31,000 - £33,000 per annum** **plus benefits**

**Permanent, Full Time**

**Location: Rhodes House in central Oxford, Hybrid Working**

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Selection and Outreach Co-ordinator to join the Rhodes Trust.

**About the Rhodes Trust**

**The Rhodes Trust is an educational charity which offers Rhodes Scholarships to exceptional students from around the world to come and study at the University of Oxford. Our mission is to build a better world through global fellowship programmes that develop and connect compassionate, innovative, and public-spirited people committed to solving humanity’s challenges.

In recent years, we have also partnered with several other remarkable organisations to create the Mandela Rhodes Foundation, Atlantic Institute, the Schmidt Science Fellows, and our most recent initiative called RISE.

**The role**

The Selection and Outreach Co-ordinator is a key role within the Selection and Outreach function of the Rhodes Trust. Selection and outreach for the Rhodes Scholarships encompasses the following core areas and the coordinator will work across each of them:

- Supporting the annual applicant and selection round
- Launching new Rhodes Constituencies
- Underpinning current Rhodes Constituencies
- Data capture, analysis and visualisation
- Outreach - increasing the reach and awareness of the Rhodes Scholarships globally

This role will be predominantly based at Rhodes House in Oxford, with the opportunity for hybrid working as agreed with your line manager.

**Essential skills, experience and qualifications**:

- Strong organisational and administrative skills, with a high attention to detail and an ability to prioritise and plan ahead to deliver work in (or ahead of) time, according to an annual cycle.
- A desire to improve processes year-on-year and to find ways of working that ease and facilitate the work of volunteer selectors.
- An ability to manage projects - to co-ordinate multiple initiatives simultaneously and involve relevant staff and volunteers at appropriate times.
- Experience of accurate data entry and record maintenance; competency in creating and running reports from a database.
- A team player with a positive approach to new challenges, quick to learn, and a willingness to find / adopt new approaches to complete tasks in the interests of efficiency or because of changing requirements.
- Service-oriented with the flexibility to be able to converse and work easily with a large variety of stakeholders across the globe.
- Excellent technical skills, with an ability to troubleshoot and problem solve across key digital platforms.
- An expert user of Microsoft packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), with a degree of literacy in content management systems (CMS), producing externally facing online content and using social media tools.
- Sensitivity and discretion in dealing with a wide range of people on many different issues; the ability to handle personal information with an awareness of data protection requirements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

**Desirable skills and experience**
- Experience of working with Salesforce.
- Experience of working with people from a variety of international backgrounds would be beneficial to the role.
- Ability to use Adobe Pro to a good standard.
- Educated to BA level or equivalent.

**Benefits of working here**

We are a global organisation and we use our deep connections across the world to bring together people of different backgrounds and viewpoints. We encourage our staff to challenge each other’s thinking and generate new ideas.
- 30 days annual leave (pro rata) plus 8 bank holidays
- Competitive pension scheme
- Generous family leave schemes
- Private health insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Personal development opportunities
- Additional benefits, such as free access to the University's gardens, parks, libraries and museums, and University staff discounts in shops across Oxford.

If you would like to find out more, please click 'apply’ to view the full job description and to find the link to apply. Please send us your CV and a covering letter. Please note, this advert will close on Monday 1st May at 17:00 BST.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £31,000.00-£33,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Oxford: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Oxford

Reference ID: VA101