Job Description

Academic Partnerships Executive

Are you driven to build relationships and help inspiring voices reach students? As a Academic Partnerships Executive (3-month FTC), you will identify, engage, and secure distinguished guest speakers and academic ambassadors, strengthening the profile of an elite education provider.

Academic Partnerships Executive Responsibilities

This position will involve, but will not be limited to:

Proactively reach out to potential guest speakers and academics to secure confirmed participation, supporting programme prestige.

Build and nurture a pipeline of academic contacts to sustain long-term ambassador relationships and future summer programme strength.

Coordinate speaker engagement steps, from initial agreement through to key logistics support, ensuring smooth delivery.

Work with internal stakeholders to shape outreach messaging and opportunities, supporting premium student experience and thought leadership.

Capture and share relevant content information for website features, strengthening digital presence and public profile.

Academic Partnerships Executive Rewards

Fixed fee for 3-month contract plus commission

Part-time role (approximately 20-25 hours per week) with flexibility to manage your own schedule

High autonomy and trust, with clear objectives and measurable outcomes

Opportunity to influence programme quality and brand reach through real stakeholder impact

The Company

The company is a long-established, premium international education provider.

Academic Partnerships Executive Experience Essentials

Strong networking and relationship-building experience, ideally within education, academia, professional services, or a comparable stakeholder environment

Proven ability to engage stakeholders through phone and email outreach, and manage conversations confidently

Demonstrable success in pipeline building, negotiation, and securing commitments

Excellent written and verbal communication, including persuasive storytelling

Strong organisation for tracking multiple priorities, speaker logistics, and administrative detail

Experience working autonomously and delivering results against targets

Location

There is opportunity to work remotely in this role, however our client requires someone who is local to Oxford. You should be comfortable with planned travel for meetings.

Action

If you would like to find out more about this excellent opportunity, then please apply online today! We will review and respond to all applications.

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