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Careers at the London Interdisciplinary School

<html><head></head><body><h2>Description</h2>
<p>The challenges humanity is facing aren’t the stuff of dystopia, science fiction, or textbooks. They’re happening today – and they’ve never been more complex and interconnected.</p>
<p>Yet our higher education system is still structured in silos, leaving graduates ill-equipped to tackle the complexity that surrounds them. The next generation is now demanding to learn in a different way. That’s where The London Interdisciplinary School comes in.</p>
<p>LIS is a start-up university that equips learners with an interdisciplinary toolkit to tackle the complex, real-world problems of the 21st century. With a world-class faculty, three exceptional founding cohorts and close partnerships with global organisations such as McKinsey, KPMG and innocent, LIS is building a new type of education for those who want to shape the world, not just fit in.</p>
<p>We are the first new UK education institution for 50 years to have full degree-awarding power since inception, and offer undergraduate, masters, as well as professional development programmes that take a ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to education.</p>
<h2>Role Summary</h2>
<p>The purpose of this role is to enable the selection and onboarding of students to the LIS suite of programmes (BASc, MASc, LIS MBA, and professional courses).</p>
<p>The skills you will develop in this role include project management, customer service, digital communications, organising data in our CRM systems and much more. You will learn from a diverse and experienced team, reporting directly to and working extremely closely with the Director of Recruitment and Admissions.</p>
<p>You'll also be able to help shape the strategy as you go as we increase our core number of students, expand our international recruitment efforts, and grow our portfolio of programmes. This role also offers a great step into the life of start ups.</p>
<h3>LIS student admissions principles</h3>
<p><strong>Rigourous</strong> - we will hold ourselves to high standards, ensuring we reflect LIS’s position as a high-quality, respected academic institution.</p>
<p><strong>Innovative</strong> - our admissions processes are as unique as LIS is as an institution. We do not do things simply because “that is the way they are done”.</p>
<p><strong>Inclusive</strong> - we select students on the basis of their ability to succeed at LIS and beyond, valuing a diverse range of perspectives in our community of problem solvers.</p>
<div><strong>Human centric</strong> – we will take an individualised approach to engagement, favouring personalised connection over automated outreach.</div>
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<h2>Requirements</h2>
<p>As an organisation dedicated to learning and personal development, we value your attitude and willingness to learn rather than candidates that just tick every box.</p>
<p>Even if you don’t feel that you meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply if this opportunity and our mission excites you.</p>
<p>The ideal candidate will have:</p>
<ul>
<li>Exceptional organisation and time management sills</li>
<li>A very good eye for detail</li>
<li>Experience in a similar administrative role an advantage</li>
<li>A natural collaborator, working cross-functionally and with a range of stakeholders</li>
<li>A self-starter, able to own your own work and developing new ways to enhance the service</li>
<li>Comfortable promoting LIS and our programmes with potential students over the phone, Zoom/ Teams and in-person</li>
<li>Adaptable and comfortable with the fast-paced nature of a start-up environment where role requirements and structures may change to meet business needs</li>
<li>Align deeply with LIS’s values: rigour, curiosity, courage, compassion, and meraki.</li>
</ul>
<p>It is not required, but would be an advantage if you have any of:</p>
<ul>
<li>A good working knowledge of the core MS Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel); experience with the wider MS Office suite (Teams, Forms, Sharepoint)</li>
<li>Experience working in Higher Education</li>
<li>Experience of using CRM systems (such as Hubspot)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Notes</h2>
<p>Role to include but not restricted to the tasks detailed here. LIS is a start-up and all employees may be asked to help out or get involved with different parts of MR&amp;A or the organisation at any time.</p>
<h2>Benefits</h2>
<ul>
<li>£32,400-£35,000 salary</li>
<li>30 days annual leave plus bank holidays</li>
<li>Monthly fitness contribution and, on successful completion of your probationary period, option to join the company-sponsored health plan.</li>
<li>Annual personal development contribution for external training/coaching</li>
<li>The opportunity to join a mission-led, fast-growing organisation that is changing higher education</li>
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Admissions Officer

<html><head></head><body><h2>Description</h2>
<p>The challenges humanity is facing aren’t the stuff of dystopia, science fiction, or textbooks. They’re happening today – and they’ve never been more complex and interconnected.</p>
<div>Yet our higher education system is still structured in silos, leaving graduates ill-equipped to tackle the complexity that surrounds them. The next generation is now demanding to learn in a different way. That’s where The London Interdisciplinary School comes in.</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>LIS is a start-up university that equips learners with an interdisciplinary toolkit to tackle the complex, real-world problems of the 21st century. With a world-class faculty, three exceptional founding cohorts and close partnerships with global organisations such as McKinsey, KPMG and innocent, LIS is building a new type of education for those who want to shape the world, not just fit in.</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>We are the first new UK education institution for 50 years to have full degree-awarding power since inception, and offer undergraduate, masters, as well as professional development programmes that take a ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to education.</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<h2>Role Summary</h2>
<div>The purpose of this role is to lead on the identification, support, and, ultimately, conversion of leads/ prospects across our portfolio of programmes (BASc, MASc, LIS MBA, professional courses), nurturing interested individuals from discovery to enrolment.</div>
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<div>Reporting to the Director of Recruitment and Admissions and working closely with the Recruitment Officer, you'll also be able to help shape the strategy as you go as we increase our core number of students, expand our international recruitment efforts, and grow our portfolio of programmes.</div>
<h3>LIS student Recruitment principles</h3>
<div><strong>High touch</strong> – we will be in regular contact with qualified contacts, understanding their motivations, barriers, and personal context.</div>
<div><strong>Human centric</strong> – we will take an individualised approach to engagement, favouring personalised connection over automated outreach.</div>
<div><strong>Focussed</strong> – we will concentrate our resources on contacts who have the highest likelihood of successfully joining the cohort.</div>
<div><strong>Agile</strong> – we will be flexible in our approach – failing fast, learning lessons, and pivoting tactics when required.</div>
<div><strong>Community driven</strong> – we will amplify our efforts by engaging the whole LIS community – staff, students, faculty, alumni, prospects, and partners.</div>
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<h2>Key responsibilities</h2>
<ul>
<li>Working with the Director of Recruitment and Admissions, define and execute a recruitment strategy across the portfolio of programmes.</li>
<li>Continuous improvement across the student recruitment process to identify and amplify moments that matter, whilst removing/ reducing low-value activities.</li>
<li>Be the “voice of the customer”, acting as a key conduit between Admissions, Marketing, and Programme teams to ensure an effective and distinctive customer journey.</li>
<li>1:1 outreach to leads across the portfolio of programmes, via telephone, email, and face-to-face activities.</li>
<li>Lead scoring potential applicants/ students to prioritise leads, assess the health of the pipeline, and inform marketing tactics.</li>
<li>Being the primary point of contact for some of our offer-holders, including building individual relationships with each offer holder, keeping them updated on programme information, and answering any questions they may have.</li>
<li>Effectively leveraging existing student relationships for insights, event support, and community building (e.g. the buddy system, student ambassadors).</li>
<li>Representing the portfolio at both internal and external events, including the potential for international travel.</li>
<li>Ownership of key enabling activities for new students joining LIS - such as working with accommodation partners, Student Loans Company, UCAS.</li>
</ul>
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<div>This list is not exhaustive - LIS is a start-up and all employees may be asked to help out or get involved with different parts of MR&amp;A or the organisation at any time.</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<h2>Requirements</h2>
<p>The ideal candidate will:</p>
<ul>
<li>Have experience of UK student recruitment; international experience and/ or experience in specialist providers would be a plus.</li>
<li>Experience with managing a sales/ recruitment pipeline.</li>
<li>Experience using CRM solutions such as HubSpot, MS Dynamics, Salesforce (MR&amp;A currently use HubSpot).</li>
<li>Be comfortable communicating across different mediums, including over the phone, email, video, and face-to-face.</li>
<li>Be an inspiring and credible ambassador, comfortable engaging with a range of stakeholders across sectors and adept at articulating LIS’s vision and value proposition.</li>
<li>Able to prioritise opportunities in a fast-moving, start-up style environment.</li>
<li>Be a natural relationship builder who thrives on creating meaningful connections.</li>
<li>Demonstrate a proactive and resourceful mindset, bringing creativity and a passion for innovation to the role.</li>
<li>Line management experience would be an advantage, but not essential.</li>
<li>Align deeply with LIS’s values: rigour, curiosity, courage, compassion, and meraki.</li>
</ul>
<div>We value growth mindset and action over years of experience. If you are excited about our mission and believe you can thrive in this role, we want to hear from you.</div>
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<h2>Benefits</h2>
<ul>
<li>£41,820 - £50,000 salary</li>
<li>30 days annual leave plus bank holidays</li>
<li>Monthly fitness contribution and, on successful completion of your probationary period, option to join the company-sponsored health plan.</li>
<li>Annual personal development contribution for external training/coaching</li>
<li>The opportunity to join a mission-led, fast-growing organisation that is changing higher education</li>
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Recruitment Manager

<html><head></head><body><h3>Must have the right to work in the UK. LIS is unable to sponsor visas.</h3>
<h1>About LIS</h1>
<div>The challenges facing the world today are not theoretical. They are urgent, messy, and interconnected. And yet, most universities still train students in narrow silos, disconnected from the real world.</div>
<div>LIS is doing things differently. We are the first university in over 50 years to be granted full degree-awarding powers from inception. Our mission is to prepare the next generation with the interdisciplinary tools, methods, and mindsets needed to tackle complex problems, and to thrive personally and professionally.</div>
<div>We’ve moved from experimentation to disciplined scaling. Our founding undergraduate cohort graduated in 2024 at the Royal Institution, with 85% already in skilled work or further study. Our Master’s is growing fast, our first MBA is underway, and we’re delivering leadership programmes to organisations like the UK Health Security Agency, TSB bank, and Mori in Japan.</div>
<div>All this powered by a talented team of 40+ combining experience from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, the RSA, British Airways, McKinsey, LEGO and more.</div>
<div>LIS is building a niche, prestigious brand with global relevance. This is a rare chance to help shape a world-class institution from the ground up, challenging the most well-established players in higher education. Come join us!</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<h1>The Role</h1>
<div>LIS is committed to providing a supportive, compassionate, equitable, safe and innovative wellbeing support that enables every student to thrive. In support of this mission, we are recruiting a<strong> Student Wellbeing Advisor</strong> for a 12-month fixed-term contract to join our small but dynamic Student Wellbeing Service, working alongside the Accessibility Manager and Wellbeing Manager (to whom this role reports).</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>You will:</div>
<ul>
<li>deliver tailored 1:1 and group support to students</li>
<li>hold a caseload of students with diverse and often complex needs</li>
<li>provide structured early intervention for emerging difficulties</li>
<li>support students with needs related to: neurodivergence, complex mental health challenges, trauma histories, some from minoritised communities, disabilities and health conditions, and intersectional life pressures (work, caregiving, finances, transitions).</li>
</ul>
<div>This role is ideal for someone who is excited about joining a new innovative, creative university which is still growing and expanding and so you would be responsive to change and open to flexible thinking patterns. You will be: experienced, grounded, calm under pressure, and committed to empowering students with evidence-based, inclusive support.</div>
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<h1>Key Responsibilities</h1>
<h3>1:1 Wellbeing Support &amp; Casework</h3>
<ul>
<li>Hold a varied caseload, providing professional, confidential 1:1 support.</li>
<li>Conduct wellbeing assessments, risk assessments, and safety planning.</li>
<li>Support students with diagnosed and undiagnosed mental health conditions, neurodivergence, disabilities, chronic health conditions, and different types of stress.</li>
<li>Deliver early intervention strategies to prevent escalation and deliver group work.
<ul>
<li>Provide coaching style support to help neurodivergent students build executive functioning skills, personalised study strategies, and wellbeing tools.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Crisis Response &amp; Safeguarding</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Respond empathetically to distressed students, managing de-escalation and immediate planning.</li>
<li>Identify and escalate safeguarding concerns in line with LIS policy.</li>
<li>Act as a point of contact for student disclosures and coordinate support with external services where appropriate.</li>
<li>Work within a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and culturally sensitive practice.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Collaboration &amp; Student Experience</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Work closely with academic, operational, and student-facing colleagues to coordinate appropriate support.</li>
<li>Contribute to the formation of and running group workshops, community-building activities, induction events, and proactive wellbeing initiatives.</li>
<li>Support communication and reasonable adjustments between students, faculty, and support teams.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Administration &amp; Service Development</h3>
<ul>
<li>Maintain accurate and confidential case notes in line with GDPR.</li>
<li>Support data gathering, analysis, and service evaluation.</li>
<li>Contribute to wellbeing projects, continuous improvement, and service evolution throughout the academic year.</li>
</ul>
<h1>About You</h1>
<h3><strong>Essential</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>A counselling qualification level 4 or above, supervised post-qualification experience registered with the BACP or UKCP; a Clinical, Counselling Psychology Degree with post-qualification experience; Mental Health Nursing Degree, an Education Welfare Degree or substantial relevant professional experience.</li>
<li>Significant experience of providing one-to-one student wellbeing support, counselling/mental health, disability support in Higher Education or advanced Further Education.</li>
<li>Willingness to provide group support sessions.</li>
<li>Strong experience supporting talented neurodivergent individuals (autism, ADHD, SpLDs, sensory/processing differences), including coaching and practical strategies.</li>
<li>Experience conducting wellbeing assessments, risk evaluations, and crisis management with complex/high risk cases.</li>
<li>Experience supporting students with disabilities and long-term health conditions.</li>
<li>Knowledge of student accessibility barriers and inclusive learning practices, including alternative assessments.</li>
<li>Understanding and good knowledge of different long-term complex mental health conditions and intersectionality.</li>
<li>Dealing with issues with sensitivity and tact, understanding the importance of maintaining confidentiality.</li>
<li>Knowledge of the Equality Act 2010, implementing reasonable adjustments and GDPR regulations.</li>
<li>Experience advising and supporting students through higher education processes such as extenuating circumstances, learning plans&nbsp;and fitness to study.</li>
<li>Experience in actively practicing safeguarding in previous roles.</li>
<li>Warm, empathetic interpersonal style, with good active listening skills and clear professional boundaries.</li>
<li>Ability to remain calm in high-pressure or emotionally complex situations and be open to adopting fresh approaches with the rapidly changing needs of students.</li>
<li>Highly organised, with strong administrative skills and the ability to prioritise effectively.</li>
<li>Experience coordinating support across services and teams and working collaboratively with students and staff.</li>
<li>Strong awareness and commitment to EDI, anti-discrimination, and trauma-informed practice.</li>
<li>Confident IT skills, including Microsoft Teams and Office.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Desirable</h3>
<ul>
<li>Qualifications in coaching, complex mental health, neurodiversity or disability support or specialist coaching qualifications for neurodivergent communities.</li>
<li>Experience supporting mature learners, working professionals, parents/carers, underrepresented communities, or those balancing work and study.</li>
<li>Experience designing or delivering wellbeing workshops.</li>
<li>Familiarity with tools such as Notion and student record systems.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Working Pattern &amp; Environment</h2>
<ul>
<li>Full-time (12-month fixed-term contract).</li>
<li>Hybrid working: minimum 3 days per week on campus.</li>
<li>Standard hours: 9am–5pm for at least three days; remaining 2 days may follow either, or a mixture of: 8am–4pm, 10am–6pm, or 11am–7pm.</li>
<li>Occasional evening work for student events may be required.</li>
</ul>
<div><strong><em>Please note: LIS is not able to sponsor visa applications for this role. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.</em></strong></div>
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<h2><strong>Our Commitment to Inclusion, Equity &amp; Belonging</strong></h2>
<div>LIS is actively building a community where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. &nbsp; &nbsp;We are committed to tackling structural inequality and supporting students and staff from historically underrepresented and underserved groups. &nbsp;We particularly welcome applications from candidates who are:</div>
<ul>
<li>Black, Asian, or from other ethnic diverse communities</li>
<li>LGBTQIA+ or gender non-conforming</li>
<li>Neurodivergent thinking patterns</li>
<li>We recognise the value of lived experience. The appointment will be made on merit.</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Our Commitment to Safeguarding</strong></h2>
<div>Safeguarding is vital, at LIS we are committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support and work with, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. &nbsp;It is extended to all and is everyone’s responsibility at LIS. &nbsp; &nbsp;</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>This role requires:</div>
<ul>
<li>An enhanced DBS disclosure</li>
<li>Adherence to all safeguarding and conduct policies</li>
<li>A commitment to ethical, respectful, trauma-informed practice towards all.</li>
</ul>
<h1>How to Apply</h1>
<div><strong>Please submit:</strong></div>
<ul>
<li>Your CV</li>
<li>A short supporting statement outlining:
<ol>
<li>Why you want to work at LIS</li>
<li>How your experience aligns with the above listed ‘essential’ and any ‘desirable’ points.</li>
<li>Your approach to supporting neurodivergent students, students with disabilities and students in distress</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="font-style: italic;"><em>Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Interviews may take place before the closing date.</em></div></body></html>

Student Wellbeing Advisor (12-month FTC)

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<h2><strong>About The London Interdisciplinary School</strong></h2>
<div>The challenges facing the world today are not theoretical. They are urgent, messy, and interconnected. And yet, most universities still train students in narrow silos, disconnected from the real world.&nbsp;</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>LIS is doing things differently. We are the first university in over 50 years to be granted full degree-awarding powers from inception. Our mission is to prepare the next generation with the interdisciplinary tools, methods, and mindsets needed to tackle complex problems, and to thrive personally and professionally.</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>We’ve moved from experimentation to disciplined scaling. Our founding undergraduate cohort graduated in 2024 at the Royal Institution, with 87% already in skilled work or further study. Our Master’s is growing fast, our first MBA is underway, and we’re delivering leadership programmes to organisations like the UK Health Security Agency, TSB bank.</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>All this powered by a talented team of 40+ combining experience from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, the RSA, British Airways, McKinsey, LEGO and more.</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>LIS is building a niche, prestigious brand with global relevance. This is a rare chance to help shape a world-class institution from the ground up, challenging the most well-established players in higher education. Come join us!</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2>
<div><strong>Own the end-to-end growth funnel</strong></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<ul>
<li>Lead LIS’s growth marketing function, responsible for acquisition and engagement, plus have understanding of the enrolment of learners across all programmes, ensuring close alignment between our marketing, recruitment, and admissions team.</li>
<li>Build, optimise and scale always-on and campaign-based performance marketing activity across paid, organic and partnership channels.</li>
<li>Management of Performance Marketing Consultants</li>
</ul>
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<div><strong>Lifecycle &amp; CRM marketing</strong></div>
<ul>
<li>Work alongside Recruitment &amp; Admissions to optimise lifecycle journeys for all key programmes—from first touchpoint through to application, interview, conversion and pre-start engagement.</li>
<li>Work alongside Recruitment &amp; Admissions to optimise CRM and automation tools to improve lead nurturing, build scoring models, and increase conversion.</li>
</ul>
<div><strong>Reporting &amp; insight</strong></div>
<ul>
<li>Create a unified reporting dashboard connecting web traffic, CTAs, CRM performance, applications, enrolments, and student outcomes.</li>
<li>Working with our digital consultants, become an expert in channel performance, attribution, and ROAS, identifying where leads are leaking and how to improve cost-per-acquisition across programmes.</li>
<li>Own KPIs for SEO, SEM, and paid channels (Google, Meta; TikTok/LinkedIn).</li>
</ul>
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<div><strong>Campaign Planning</strong></div>
<ul>
<li>Lead on building and optimising landing pages for programmes and campaigns, ensuring strong UX, mobile performance and messaging clarity.</li>
<li>Writes high-performing ad copy, landing page copy, email nurture sequences and content that drive leads and conversions.</li>
<li>Ensure our messaging is executed consistently and delivered at the right moments across the funnel, so prospective students get the right message at the right time.</li>
</ul>
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<div><strong>Process &amp; Operational Excellence</strong></div>
<ul>
<li>Establish strong workflows across marketing, design and admissions to ensure campaigns launch on time, receive timely creative support, and have structured CRM follow-up. and are iterated and optimised based on performance.</li>
<li>Drive accountability and performance with external agencies where used.</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Requirements</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Confident analysing campaign performance directly in platform, with the ability to diagnose issues and propose optimisations.</li>
<li>Strong analytical capability — comfortable with GA4, attribution models and funnel reporting.</li>
<li>Experience collaborating with or managing agencies, holding them to KPIs and clear performance standards.</li>
<li>Ability to create effective cross-team processes and work streams spanning marketing, design, admissions and product.</li>
<li>Understanding of CRM and marketing automation tools (e.g., HubSpot) is desirable but not essential.</li>
<li>Experience in education, programme recruitment, or a performance-led acquisition role is advantageous but not required.</li>
<li>A test-and-learn mindset with the ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.</li>
<li>You have a passion for disrupting higher education and growing a new type of university that rivals legacy institutions</li>
<li>You will report to our Head of Marketing and work closely with the Marketing, Recruitment &amp; Admissions Team</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Benefits</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>You will be LIS' key growth lead and work closely with recruitment and marketing leadership to have a direct impact on LIS' growth trajectory</li>
<li>£45-55k annual salary, depending on level of experience</li>
<li>Company-sponsored monthly fitness contribution</li>
<li>Annual personal development contribution for external training/coaching</li>
<li>Opportunity to join a fast-growing organisation</li>
<li>30 days holiday.</li>
</ul>
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