Academic Partnerships Executive

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.

Allen Associates is a leading recruitment company in Oxfordshire recruiting for Marketing, Finance, Human Resources and PA/Administrative roles. Allen Associates operates as an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and an Employment Business for temporary recruitment. For more information on current vacancies please visit (url removed) and follow us on LinkedIn
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