Marketing and Student Recruitment team

The Marketing team are responsible for student recruitment marketing campaigns. We work on departmental marketing campaigns (e.g. an email from a department), alongside wider corporate campaigns (eg. the prospectus and membership packs).

How we can help

We can help staff with:

• advertising
• digital Marketing (including social media, photography and video)
• production of publications and print
• Course Finder
• recruitment campaigns
• emails and membership packs
• third-party websites

We take a lead on all recruitment activity across the UK and overseas, specifically Europe and Americas and we work with our regional offices in other areas. This includes school fairs and talks, education fairs, working with partner universities, agents and other stakeholders.

Our Student Recruitment Officers and International Officers are responsible for activity in their own set areas/countries. The team also manage key recruitment events, including Opens Days and Offer Holder Days and virtual events.

How we can help

We can help staff with:

• organising on-campus student visits/tasters/conferences
• organising in-country and virtual recruitment activity
• expertise of UK regions and international markets
• working with schools – as part of the Schools Membership Scheme and outside of this
• working with partner universities, agents, funding bodies and various stakeholders

The Regional International Offices are responsible for the University’s International Recruitment, Alumni Engagement and Partnerships Network; specifically in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, India, China and South East Asia.

If you would like to work with one of our Regional Offices, or want advice on how to apply from one of our international regions, our regional teams will be happy to hear from you.

How we can help

We can help staff with:

• organising in-country recruitment fairs/school visits
• working with schools
• expertise of international markets
• information on alumni engagement and partnerships

Contact us

• Africa: africa@essex.ac.uk
• Middle East and North Africa: mena@essex.ac.uk
• India: india@essex.ac.uk
• China: china@essex.ac.uk
• South East Asia: seasia@essex.ac.uk

The Market Intelligence team co-ordinate the University’s market research and insight activities to ensure student recruitment and marketing strategies and operations are underpinned by the most relevant internal and sector data, alongside broader market insight.

How we can help

We can help you with:

• competitor benchmarking
• surveying applicants and offer-holders
• profiling enquirers, applicants and offer-holders
• market audits to support new course proposals
• Tableau reports exploring current and historic admissions trends

Who we are

The Market Intelligence team spread our time across the University’s three faculties:

Arts and Humanities – Ben Tully
Science and Health – Claire Lawrence
Social Sciences – Becca Coster

The team’s data analyst works across all three faculties – Vish Sri Rangan

EBS Marketing is responsible for the marketing activity of the Essex Business School.

Our team is responsible for the strategic development and management of the University's use of the website and related digital media. Our role includes the production and development of central corporate web pages, planning and editing content, and the online implementation of the University's brand.

We work closely with a team of web authors across the University to make sure our website content is of the highest quality. This includes providing staff web author guidance and a series of training courses to develop and maintain web authoring skills.

How we can help

We want to ensure that users of our website find the information they need as quickly and as easily as possible. Contact us or your department web author if you would like to suggest a change to the website, we can also give you advice and support with:

• writing effective web content
• planning and organising your web pages
• improving your web author skills
• analytics reports on website traffic