Interim Director of Marketing & Student Recruitment, UK University

Anderson Quigley is partnering with a leading UK university to appoint an Interim Director of Marketing & Student Recruitment, a pivotal role at the heart of the institution’s growth and diversification journey. This six to nine month assignment offers the chance to make a visible, lasting impact while the university moves to appoint a substantive leader.

Reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer, you will inspire and lead a high-performing team to deliver a global, integrated marketing and recruitment strategies that underpin the university’s ambitious student number targets. This is a role for a bold, strategic operator who can blend creativity with rigour, shaping campaigns that cut through a crowded market and energising colleagues to deliver with confidence and pace.

What you’ll deliver

As Interim Director of Marketing & Student Recruitment, you will be expected to quickly establish credibility and deliver impact across a number of critical areas. Over the course of the assignment, your priorities will include:

• Visible and inspiring leadership: bringing energy and confidence to a talented team, engaging colleagues through change, and strengthening internal networks and stakeholder relationships.
• Strategic alignment: playing a key role in shaping and implementing the revised strategy, ensuring that marketing and recruitment activity is clearly connected to the university’s wider priorities.
• Operational clarity and consistency: designing and delivering an integrated plan for marketing and student recruitment, aligning activity across teams to drive coherence, efficiency and measurable outcomes.
• Agency onboarding and external partnerships: leading the successful integration of a new media agency and establishing effective partnerships that extend the university’s reach and enhance its reputation.
• Operating model review: contributing evidence-based insight and practical recommendations to ensure the marketing and recruitment function is structured for long-term success.

This is a rare opportunity to take the reins at a critical moment, lead with authority, and leave behind a stronger, sharper and more confident function. If you thrive on challenge, change and visible results, this interim role will put your skills firmly in the spotlight.

Please reach out to Claire Lauder at Anderson Quigley to apply.