Higher Education Partnerships Manager (International)

HE Partnerships at Unifrog

After successfully launching the HE Partnerships arm of Unifrog in 2020, we now support 190+ universities around the world with raising brand awareness, inspiring the next generation, and developing talented and diverse pipelines of prospective applicants.

Our international university partnerships are an exciting and growing part of our work. We connect universities around the world with students and counsellors across our international school community, helping universities reach prospective applicants in a targeted, meaningful way while ensuring the activity we deliver adds genuine value for students.

What you’ll do

As International HE Partnerships Manager, you’ll play a key role in growing Unifrog’s international university partnerships. You’ll secure new partners around the world, including international teams at UK universities, while managing a portfolio of existing international partners and helping them get maximum value from working with Unifrog.

Your key responsibilities:

• Grow our international university partner base
  
  You’ll proactively identify and build relationships with prospective university partners around the world. You’ll set up and conduct meetings with university recruitment and marketing teams, understand their international student recruitment priorities, demonstrate how Unifrog can support them, and secure new partnerships.
  
  You’ll also help grow our work with international recruitment teams at UK universities.
   

• Manage and grow existing international partnerships
  
  You’ll manage a portfolio of international university partners, building excellent relationships and ensuring they get maximum value from their partnership.
  
  You’ll onboard new partners, conduct regular strategic check-ins, demonstrate impact and make recommendations based on their recruitment objectives. You’ll be responsible for maintaining excellent retention rates while identifying opportunities to deepen and grow our work with each partner.
   

• Deliver impactful international recruitment activity
  
  You’ll work consultatively with partners to identify the activity that will best support their international recruitment goals. This could include:
  
  - Student webinars and virtual events
  - International student fairs
  - College counsellor networking events
  - Targeted campaigns
  - Talent Pool activity
  - Conversion activity
  - Data and Insights
  
  You’ll make sure partner activity is relevant and valuable for our student and counsellor community while delivering meaningful results for universities.
   

• Use data and insights to demonstrate impact
  
  You’ll use Unifrog’s data and Insights tools to help partners better understand prospective students and international school audiences.
  
  You’ll use data to demonstrate the impact of their partnership, inform recruitment strategies, strengthen renewal conversations and identify opportunities for further activity.
   

• Help shape our international university strategy
  
  Our international university offering is growing quickly, and we want you to play an important role in shaping what comes next.

You’ll bring fresh ideas and creativity to the team, using your understanding of universities' recruitment challenges to identify exciting new opportunities. You'll work closely with colleagues across Unifrog to develop, test and launch innovative products, services and events that help international universities achieve their recruitment goals.

We’re looking for someone who is excited to think beyond our existing offering, spot opportunities for growth and take an active role in turning new ideas into reality.

Working together

You’ll work closely with colleagues across the HE Partnerships team, including our UK HE Partnerships Managers, HE Partnerships Engagement Lead and New Business Lead, as well as colleagues across our school-facing, international schools, marketing, events, content and data teams.

You’ll be line-managed by our Head of HE Partnerships.

What we're looking for

• Resilient and motivated to exceed targets
  
  This is a commercial role with ambitious new business, renewal and growth targets. You’ll be motivated by building something, opening new opportunities and consistently delivering against your goals.
  
   

• An excellent relationship builder
  
  You’ll be comfortable developing relationships from scratch as well as managing long-term partnerships. You’ll be confident engaging with stakeholders across different roles, institutions, cultures and markets.
  
   

• Strong communication skills
  
  You’ll communicate with university partners and prospects around the world through meetings, presentations, email, phone and video calls. You’ll need to be an engaging and persuasive communicator who can adapt your approach to different audiences.
  
   

• Commercial and consultative
  
  You’ll be curious about what universities are trying to achieve rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach. You’ll be able to understand recruitment challenges and recommend activity that genuinely helps address them.
  
   

• International HE sector insight
  
  You’ll need to quickly understand different international student recruitment markets and the priorities of universities operating within them. Experience of international higher education or student recruitment would be an advantage.
  
   

• Comfortable using data
  
  You’ll be confident interpreting data, identifying useful insights and translating these into clear recommendations for partners.
  
   

• Proactive and excited to build something
  
  Our international HE offering is developing quickly. You’ll enjoy spotting opportunities, testing new approaches and contributing ideas about how we can grow our international partnerships over the long term.
   

• Creative and innovative
  
  You’ll enjoy thinking creatively, challenging existing approaches and coming up with fresh ideas. You’ll be confident spotting opportunities for improvement and turning ideas into action, bringing new perspectives and solutions to help us develop and grow our international university offering.

Benefits 

On our jobs page you’ll find a full list of the benefits we offer our team. Here’s a snapshot:

• Mission focused
  
  Join one of Escape the City’s top 1% employers and help transform careers and destinations for students.
   

• Be part of a growing company
  
  Become part of a committed, dynamic, and growing company. We want to build our team for the long term: if you do well, we will do our best to make sure you want to stay at the company for a long time.

• Grow individually
  
  Professional development is important at Unifrog. You will define your own 6-month objectives and will be supported by your line manager and the rest of the team to achieve them. You will have an annual training allowance to spend on what you need to grow and progress.

• Have impact
  
  Influence the company’s direction: we love to promote great ideas, wherever they come from.

Key details 

• £37,485 per year plus commission (OTE of £60,000), plus team-related performance bonuses. Grade B.

• Full-time (unfortunately, we cannot consider part-time hours for this role). 

• Work remotely in the UK or flexibly from our London or Edinburgh office.

• 28 days paid holiday per year (plus bank holidays).

• Working hours are 8:30am to 4:30pm, or 9:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Thursday, and 8.30am to 4:00pm or 9:00am to 4:30pm on Friday.

• Start date: as soon as possible, though we will be flexible for the right candidates.
   

• We can only consider candidates who are based in, and have the right to work in the UK.

Application process  

• Deadline: 10:00am (GMT) on Wednesday 25th November 2026.

• We may need to close applications early if we receive a lot of interest. As long as you’ve already started applying, we’ll give you 48 hours’ notice of the deadline changing - so if you’re thinking of applying, please start an application so we can keep you updated. 

• Stage 1: Application form (~1 hour) ✍️

• Visit our website to upload your CV and complete the questions below. Please note that we do not review CVs at this stage of the application process, so please be as specific as possible about your experience.

• With reference to examples of your recent experience, what would make you an excellent candidate for this role? (250 words)
   

• In this role, you’ll be asked to find new ways to improve and develop our international university offering. Tell us about a time when you took the initiative to suggest a creative improvement to a product or process. What was your idea, what did you do, and what was the outcome? (250 words)

• Stage 2: Phone task (15 minutes) 📲

• Stage 3: Video call interview (1 hour) 🖥️

• Pre-prepared presentation (5 minutes).

• Standard Q&A from a panel of three, including questions about your experiences and how these relate to the role, and scenario questions based on common situations you might face (plus time for your questions) (55 minutes).

• Phone interviews will be held throughout the application window. Video call interviews will be held on 11th December 2026.

• Your answers are an opportunity to let us know more about your motivations and experience. While we understand that candidates might want to use AI to improve parts of their application, we strongly encourage you to write your answers independently.

• Please note, we compare all answers to an AI generated answer. Where we suspect AI has been used to write the majority of the answer, this will be taken into consideration when scoring. You can find more details and our full policy on AI in applications here.