Salary Rate: Casual HEW 5 (52.47 per hour + 11.5% superannuation) 
Employment Type: Casual - Approx 1-2 shifts a week

Location: Burwood (hybrid)

About the role

The Officer, Prospective Student Enquires is the first point of contact for domestic prospective students and the general public, and provides information about courses, recruitment events and enrolments. This includes inbound phone, email, live chat and outbound consultations. The role builds and maintains the leads management database and nurtures and converts those leads into Deakin students.

The role also includes liaising with faculty representatives and following up with both faculties and prospects to ensure all enquiries have been resolved. A particularly strong focus of this role is to build the Future Students database and accurately record prospective student contact details, study interests as well as the outcomes of the enquiry in the Salesforce CRM.

Infrequent work outside business hours is required (e.g. work at evening, or weekend events).

As an Officer, Prospective Student Enquiries, you will:

• Deliver a high standard of accurate, tailored, high quality course information to prospective students in response to phone, email, online and live chat enquiries whilst adhering to current privacy legislation and current university policies.
• Ensure all inbound and outbound enquiries are recorded, reported and resolved in a timely manner.
• Achieve set targets in regards to data collection, call success and attempt rate, lead generation and conversion.
• Monitor course applications and conduct follow campaigns where required.
• Consult with available sources to gather relevant information and seek the expertise and advice of other people as appropriate.

To be successful, you’ll have:

• At least two years relevant work experience in both sales and customer service provision
• High level interpersonal skills and ability to respond to people confidently, positively, and with respect while maintaining confidentiality when required
• Ability to master content knowledge across a broad range of course and policy areas
• Experience in operating in a high-pressure diverse environment, involving face to face, phone, and written enquiries (preferably in a large organisation)

Here's how to apply: 

Please submit your updated resume and a short cover letter outlining your skills and experience.

For a confidential discussion regarding this role, please contact Hina Faisal, (Team Leader, Prospective Student Enquiries) on hina.faisal@deakin.edu.au.

Applications for this position close on 23rd of March, at 11.59pm.

This role requires the incumbent to apply for and maintain a Working With Children Check (refer to Deakin’s Recruitment Procedure for further details).

About us 
The flexible learning options we provide our students and our diverse team of professionals and academic experts has enabled us to achieve a 5-star rating by the prestigious university ranking organisation Quacquarelli Symonds. For eight consecutive years, we've achieved the highest level of overall student satisfaction among Victorian universities.
We have a network of campuses, learning centres and research centres across Victoria and corporate offices in Melbourne, China, Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka.  Our online Cloud campus provides more than 13,000 students with access to state-of-the-art digital tools and direct access to world-renowned academics.
As a Victorian university with a global impact, Deakin is translating its research into commercial outcomes that will help drive innovation for Australia’s economy.