Communications & Student recruitment
Work towards the future! Do you thrive at the heart of a dynamic academic environment, where every message matters and every interaction helps shape a student’s journey? In this role you bring clarity, creativity, and coordination to the full student experience through communication from first contact to graduation.
In this combined role, you work at the intersection central educational services and admissions.
You strengthen communication and coordination within the Centre for Educational Support (CES) and work closely together with the department of Marketing & Communication (MC) for student recruitment in the Netherlands and abroad.
Your primary responsibility is to ensure effective, efficient and appealing communication towards current and prospective Dutch and international students, as well as educational staff.
Your responsibilities and tasks involve:
- Coordinate internal and external communication for CES in close collaboration with the Marketing & Communication Department (M&C).
- Act as linking pin between CES and M&C, ensuring smooth cooperation and alignment.
- Identify areas for improvement in communication processes and advise colleagues on appropriate communication methods.
- Coordinate and optimise website architecture and content, ensuring a user-friendly structure and supporting colleagues in day-to-day content management.
- Contribute to communication and marketing of the Open Days with the MC colleagues.
- Coordinate participation of CES colleagues in participating in online and offline recruitment and information events (Open Days, webinars, wo-dag and others). Of course, you also participate yourself.
- Develop multimedia communication tools and write SEO-proof, clear texts
- Support communication within CES-related IT projects (e.g. introduction of new tools for teachers or communication about tender trajectories) and Life Long Learning developments.
In this role, you work independently within a complex organisation, motivate colleagues, think out of the box and ensure that communication channels are effectively connected to target audiences.
Information and application
If you want more information about this vacancy please contact Lieke Schreel, director Centre for Educational support: l.a.j.m.schreel@utwente.nl (email only)
Would you like to join CES and MC? Then we are looking forward to your motivation letter and CV. Use the ‘apply’ button at the bottom of this page to submit your application.
A screening is part of the selection process.
About the department
The University of Twente's Centre for Educational Support (CES) guides students and supports educational processes. We support students from application through graduation, providing study guidance and career advice. CES also offers language courses, functional management, scholarship information, schedule planning, and educational expertise. We are a proactive service where reliability, drive, and collegiality are paramount. The University of Twente and CES offer work that matters. We are proud to contribute to the development of the next generation. We value diversity and inclusion and invest in our employees. We offer an open and entrepreneurial atmosphere with room for personal growth and talent development.
About the organisation
The Centre for Educational Support (CES) of University of Twente supports and guides students and educational staff with a wide range of services. These include student administration, support and advice while studying, and career guidance for after graduation. We also offer language support, functional management, information about scholarships, timetable scheduling and various training programmes. As a learning community and a part of a people-first university of technology, we make sure our service offer reflects a strong commitment to diversity, inclusiveness, personal growth and talent development – as well as to the individual needs of UT students and staff members in an international context.
As an employer, the Centre for Educational Support offers jobs that matter. We equip you as a staff member to shape new opportunities both for yourself and for our society. With us, you will be part of a leading tech university that is impacting our world for the better. We offer an open and entrepreneurial climate, in which we encourage you to make healthy choices, for example, with our flexible, customizable conditions.
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