Details
1122355
De Montfort University (Leicester)
16/11/2026
Other - See Job
37 hours per week Monday to Friday
Business Dress
Pay
£16.95
£2.64
Description
Role
Unitemps is a University-owned temporary staffing agency that operates in various universities, including De Montfort University (DMU). There are several benefits to working with Unitemps at DMU:
Networking Opportunities: Through Unitemps, you may have the chance to work with various departments and individuals at the university. This can help you expand your network and establish connections that may be valuable for your future career.
Professional Development: Many positions available through Unitemps may offer opportunities for professional development and skill enhancement. You can learn new skills and gain valuable knowledge while on the job.
Career Progression: Some temporary positions may lead to permanent employment within the university, giving you a potential pathway for long-term career advancement.
Contribution to the University Community: By working with Unitemps at DMU, you become a part of the university community and can contribute to its success and growth.
ROLE
The Progression Officer will play a pivotal role in the Progression and Pathways team contributing to DMU’s engagement with its global academic progression partners. They will support and develop relations with both external and internal stakeholders to enhance recruitment opportunities, whilst contributing to a strong sales climate and culture.
They must also ensure they maintain highly effective policy, governance, systems and processes. Reporting into the Senior Progression Officer, they will also work closely with the international recruitment team and faculties to ensure effective and efficient assessment of new opportunities arising, appropriate due diligence and curriculum mapping and subsequent preparation of agreements for approval through university channels.
Externally, they will liaise with prospective and current partners and representatives to ensure DMU is achieving its ambitious international recruitment targets.
The working hours are full time, 37 hours per week across Monday to Friday.
The closing date for the advert is 25th November 2026, Interviews to be held on 2nd December2026 with a proposed start date of 7th December 2026.
The proposed end date of 29.01.2027.
Duties and responsibilities
Operational and Administrative processes
To monitor the progression partnership development process, guiding internal colleagues and the partner through all stages, ensuring that partnerships are developed in a timely manner and managed in line with university policy.
To maintain highly effect governance systems and processes, including maintaining a database giving an overview of partnerships at all stages of development from identification through to approval and implementation.
To ensure regular communication with international partners to ensure the stated objectives for the partnership are met and provide attention to the progress against those objectives.
To work with the Senior Progression Officer and faculties to conduct desktop Due Diligence of prospective partners.
To initiate and facilitate curriculum mapping, working closely with senior academic stakeholders.
Provide International Office (IO) recruitment teams, and other DMU stakeholders with advice, guidance and support to ensure governance requirements are fully understood and met in relation to the management and development of progression partnerships
Carry out data collection, analysis and reporting for key DMU stakeholders, ensuring that all progression partnership reporting demonstrates data integrity to allow for effective international strategy and operational decision making within DMU
Manage projects as requested from time to time relating to DMU’s progression partners and DMU’s International College (DMUIC) and deliver to quality requirements Develop and propose policy ideas that represent leading edge practice in relation to international progression partnerships
To support with committee servicing where required, ensuring accurate papers and minutes are produced and circulated
Partnership Development
Work closely with all other members of the sales team to deliver the overall international recruitment strategy
To project manage the development of new international progression opportunities in a specific region(s), working closely with the relevant Regional Managers, Senior Progression Officer and faculties.
Contribute to a strong a sales climate and culture within the team and develop a spirit of shared mission within the International Office
To develop an understanding of partnership opportunities that best align with institutional objectives.
Contract Management
To provide detailed performance data on current international partnerships.
The post holder will provide reports outlining the performance of these partnerships, presenting data on issues including recruitment and other relationship management elements and suggesting actions where necessary.
To maintain oversight of progression agreements, monitoring and renewing agreements where necessary and notifying stakeholders in response to changes in the university course portfolio including addition and closure of degree courses.
To draft and issue progression agreements (including Variation agreements, MoUs and renewals) using template contracts, working closely with the partner and DMU’s Legal Services to expedite issues effectively.
Develop a strong internal and external network to support sales and income generation
To collaborate with International Recruitment teams to organise recruitment activities, monitoring performance, troubleshooting and other aspects of partner relationship management. Build effective and influential relationships with key DMU academic and professional services colleagues and involve them in the achieving the delivery of DMU’s international recruitment strategy
Build effective and influential relationships with partners to facilitate high volume growth.
Skills and experience
Qualifications and training:
Educated to degree level, or with equivalent qualification or experience
Postgraduate or Professional qualification
Previous work experience
A track record of developing operational processes with both external and internal stakeholders.
For example, including carrying out desktop
Due Diligence on external partners
Demonstrate capability to competently deliver presentations, relationship building and networking skills
Knowledge and experience of curriculum mapping
Proactive and innovative strategic thinking and problem solving
Experience of working within a global marketplace
A good understanding of the current international HE landscape
Leadership and Management
Ability to be decisive, especially when under pressure
Diplomacy and the ability to deal with issues sensitively and confidentially
Ability to provide evidence of achieving and exceeding targets
Flexible – able to deal with conflicting demands and priorities
Demonstrable capability to build effective internal and external networks to support sales and income generation
Performance Improvement
Demonstrate sound knowledge of international market needs and trends to inform portfolio developments and innovations
Experience of developing and supporting a high performing team
Additional requirements
Adhere to DMU’s Health & Safety policy
Ability to provide a service to a diverse range of people to promote good relations and equality
Willingness to travel nationally and internationally
Ability and willingness to adopt a flexible approach to work in order to provide support across a broad range of responsibilities and, when required, cover out of normal working hours
Location
De Montfort University
Additional information
Other
Perform any other duties commensurate with the job grade as reasonably required from time to time.
Treat all DMU staff, students, contractors and visitors with dignity and respect. Provide a service that complies with the Equality Act 2010, eliminating unlawful discrimination, advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations with particular attention to the protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief (or none), sex and sexual orientation.
The post holder is required to minimise environmental impact in the performance of the role, seek to promote environmental sustainability within area of responsibility and actively contribute to the delivery of the DMU Environmental Policy.Unitemps is acting as an Employment Business, supplying temporary workers, in relation to this vacancy.Unitemps DMU operates a monthly payroll - Please refer to the candidate information hub for DMU unitemps in relation to pay dates and further information.We aim to notify all candidates of the outcome of their application however the volume of applications sometimes does not allow us to do so; please check your application status via your Unitemps account regularly; we may also communicate via email; please check your junk mail.