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Careers at the London Interdisciplinary School

<html><head></head><body><h1>About The London Interdisciplinary School</h1>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>All this powered by a talented team of 40+ combining experience from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, the RSA, British Airways, McKinsey, LEGO and more.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<h1>About the role</h1>
<p>We are looking for a <strong>Freelance Performance Marketing Manager</strong> to design and drive the digital acquisition strategy across all LIS programmes (Bachelor’s, Master’s, MBA and short courses).</p>
<p>In this role, you will be the in-house specialist for paid media, collaborating closely with our agency partners and internal team to deliver measurable results: high-quality enquiries, applications, and ultimately enrolments.</p>
<div>This is a<strong> 2-day-per-week freelance contract for an initial 6 months.</strong> The role will evolve across three phases:</div>
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<li><strong>Diagnosis</strong>: Audit and assess current campaigns, channels, and performance.</li>
<li><strong>Optimisation</strong>: Implement improvements and test new approaches to maximise ROI.</li>
<li><strong>Monitoring</strong>: Track performance, report on results, and ensure sustained success</li>
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<div>This role can be done fully remotely.</div>
<h2>Core Responsibilities</h2>
<div><strong>Paid Media Strategy and Execution</strong></div>
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<li>Lead strategy and day-to-day oversight of paid media campaigns across Google, Meta and emerging channels (TikTok, LinkedIn).</li>
<li>Take an active role in reviewing campaign setups and performance data to ensure accuracy and effectiveness.</li>
<li>Collaborate with the agency to validate insights, identify optimisation opportunities and ensure best practice is applied.</li>
<li>Ensure campaigns are tailored to the recruitment goals of different LIS programmes.</li>
</ul>
<div><strong>Agency Management</strong></div>
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<li>Act as the in-house performance expert and main point of contact for our media agency.</li>
<li>Provide clear briefs, challenge recommendations constructively and ensure agency outputs align with LIS recruitment cycles.</li>
<li>Partner with the agency to share learnings and continually improve results.</li>
</ul>
<div><strong>Performance Optimisation</strong></div>
<ul>
<li>Track and optimise campaigns against the recruitment funnel: awareness → enquiry → application → enrolment.</li>
<li>Collaborate with the design lead and web team to iterate on creative and landing pages.</li>
<li>Partner with the Marketing Manager to integrate paid activity with LIS’s broader brand and content strategy.</li>
</ul>
<div><strong>Analytics and Reporting</strong></div>
<ul>
<li>Monitor and report on campaign performance using GA4, dashboards and attribution tools.</li>
<li>Track CPL, CPA, conversion rates and ROI by programme.</li>
<li>Provide insights and recommendations to the senior team.</li>
<li>CRM and Funnel Integration (supporting responsibility)</li>
<li>Ensure campaigns are tracked correctly into HubSpot (UTMs, lead source, campaign tagging).</li>
<li>Work with the wider marketing team to connect paid activity with enquiry and application journeys.</li>
</ul>
<div><strong>Experimentation and Growth</strong></div>
<ul>
<li>Pilot and evaluate new platforms and formats with a test-and-learn approach.</li>
<li>Contribute to conversion rate optimisation initiatives across enquiry and application processes.</li>
</ul>
<h1>About you</h1>
<ul>
<li>Hands-on experience managing Google Ads and Meta Ads; knowledge of TikTok/LinkedIn Ads a plus.</li>
<li>Comfortable reviewing and interpreting campaign performance directly in platform, with the ability to identify areas for improvement.</li>
<li>Strong analytical skills; confident with GA4, attribution and campaign reporting.</li>
<li>Skilled in collaborating with agencies and driving accountability through partnership.</li>
<li>Ability to establish effective processes across marketing, design and admissions, ensuring campaigns are consistently supported with timely creative assets, aligned messaging and structured follow-up.</li>
<li>Experience in education or programme recruitment is a plus but not essential.</li>
<li>Familiarity with CRM and marketing automation tools (for example, HubSpot) is desirable but not required.</li>
</ul>
<div>You will report to our CEO Ed Fidoe and work closely with our Marketing Manager.</div>
<h1>Benefits</h1>
<ul>
<li>Up to £57k pro-rated base salary, depending on experience</li>
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Performance Marketing Manager (freelance, 6 months contract)

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<h2><strong>Description</strong></h2>
<div>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.</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Role Summary</strong></span></div>
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<div>The purpose of this role is to identify, support, and, ultimately, convert leads across our portfolio of programmes (BASc, MASc, LIS MBA) into applicants and enrolees.</div>
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<div>The skills you will develop in this role include customer service, consultative sales, managing email sends, organising data in our CRM systems and much more. 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.</div>
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<div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>LIS student Recruitment principles</strong></span></div>
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<div><strong>High touch</strong> – we will be in regular contact with qualified contacts, understanding their motivations, barriers, and personal context.</div>
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<div><strong>Human centric</strong> – we will take an individualised approach to engagement, favouring personalised connection over automated outreach.</div>
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<div><strong>Focussed</strong> – we will concentrate our resources on contacts who have the highest likelihood of successfully joining the cohort.</div>
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<div><strong>Agile</strong> – we will be flexible in our approach – failing fast, learning lessons, and pivoting tactics when required.</div>
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<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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<div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></span></div>
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<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 students for insights, event support, and community building (e.g. the buddy system).</li>
<li>Representing the portfolio at both internal and external events, including the potential for international travel.</li>
<li>Actively contributing to how we market the portfolio, including development of the LIS website, prospectuses, and digital communications</li>
</ul>
<div><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Notes</span></div>
<div>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.</div>
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<h2>Requirements</h2>
<p>The ideal candidate will:</p>
<ul>
<li>Have an understanding of UK student recruitment; international experience would be a plus</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>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>£32,400-£34,000 salary.</li>
<li>30 days annual leave.</li>
<li>Hybrid working - minimum of 2 days on campus, although flexibility will be required to meet potential student demand.</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 Officer

<html><head></head><body><h1><span style="font-family: poppins;">About The London Interdisciplinary School</span></h1>
<div><span style="font-family: poppins;">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.</span></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span style="font-family: poppins;">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.</span></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span style="font-family: poppins;">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.</span></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span style="font-family: poppins;">All this powered by a talented team of 40+ combining experience from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, the RSA, British Airways, McKinsey, LEGO and more.&nbsp;</span></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span style="font-family: poppins;">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!</span></div>
<h1><span style="font-family: poppins;">About the role</span></h1>
<div><span style="font-family: poppins;">We’re looking for a bold, strategic, and hands-on Head of Marketing to help scale LIS through its next phase of growth. This is a rare opportunity to build one of the most distinctive brands in higher education and to connect it with the students, partners, and organisations who need it most.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: poppins;">This role leans analytical, with approximately 70% focused on data-driven, performance-oriented marketing and 30% on creative, brand-led initiatives.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: poppins;">You will help us:</span></div>
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<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Drive applicant pipelines across all our programmes: Bachelor’s, Master’s, MBA, and professional development</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Shape the research, positioning, and go-to-market strategy for new programme launches (e.g. AI, Education, BASc Year Abroad)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Push our creative boundaries: from digital campaigns to events, partnerships, and beyond</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Lead, coach, and develop a small but mighty team of three (Marketing Lead, Video &amp; Design Lead and Content Marketing Manager)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Build out clear success metrics and work closely with leadership to deliver against them</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Grow awareness of LIS as a prestigious, globally relevant institution</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">You’ll be joining at a time of momentum, with strong proof points behind us, exciting new launches ahead, and growing international attention. Your role is part brand architect, part growth strategist, part operator.</span></li>
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<div><span style="font-family: poppins;">You will report to our CEO Ed Fidoe and work closely with our Head of Admissions &amp; Recruitment, Head of Network, as well as a broad range of cross-functional colleagues across LIS.</span></div>
<h1><span style="font-family: poppins;">About you</span></h1>
<div><span style="font-family: poppins;">We think you’ll thrive in this role if you:</span></div>
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<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Care deeply about the LIS mission, and want to help shape a new kind of educational institution</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Bring a track record of building and scaling exceptional, high-performing marketing, ideally across multiple audiences or sectors</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Have experience managing agencies and a broad mix of marketing channels (digital, offline, partner-led, etc.) to drive and sustain growth. You may identify as a digital acquisition specialist, with deep expertise in performance marketing, paid channels, and conversion optimisation</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Are a player-coach: just as comfortable setting vision as you are writing copy or QA-ing a landing page</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Know how to sharpen a value proposition and tailor it across different stakeholders and formats</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Have strong instincts for storytelling, content, events, and community-building</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Can work creatively within tight budgets and evolving constraints (you will own the marketing budget)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Are data-minded but not data-blinded: you ask the right questions and act on insight</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Reject generic or “good enough”: you are relentlessly curious, bold in your thinking, and hungry to create a generational institution</span></li>
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<h1><span style="font-family: poppins;">Benefits</span></h1>
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<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">£62-70k base salary, depending on experience</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Campus-first (at least 2 days a week) with flexibility to work from home</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">£1k annual personal development contribution</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Company-sponsored Vitality Health insurance (after you pass probation)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">30 days of paid leave annually (plus bank holidays)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: poppins;"><span style="font-family: poppins;">Monthly fitness contribution</span></li>
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