Marketing Manager, Graduate School of Public Policy

Nazarbayev University (NU) – located in Astana, Kazakhstan – is an English-language research university, established in partnership with leading universities around the world. NU's international partners include Cambridge University, University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, National University of Singapore, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Pittsburgh.  The University has rigorous admission standards and accepts only the best students from the region. NU's Graduate School of Public Policy enrolled its first students in 2013 and offers degree programs in Master in Public Policy, Master in Public Administration and PhD in Public Policy. The School's partner institution is the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.  Our Master programs have achieved full accreditation from the European Association for Public Administration Accreditation (EAPAA).

 The Manager performs the following duties and responsibilities:

1)   coordination of social media activities of the School;

2) participating in the development, as well as subsequent monitoring the implementation of draft contracts and additional agreements initiated by the School;

3) providing advice on admission procedures, deadline for the submission of documents, online registration;

4) developing and supporting the School website, updating information;

5) planning and implementation of the public relations programme, as agreed with the Department of Marketing and Communications, to promote the School at the national, international and local level;

6) organizing of information activities of the School to attract potential students (open day, information sessions in and outside of Kazakhstan);

7) fundraising and its support at the School;

8) participating and fully cooperating on the issues related to the implementation of effective marketing policy to promote the School;

9) drafting correspondence within his/her functional duties;

10) providing assistance to the Dean and other colleagues in promoting the School towards external target audience and developing relationships, among others, with the representatives of the business, industry, government and university;

11) participating in the public events organization and implementation;

12) participation in identification, evaluation, management and monitoring of risks within the framework of supervised direction;

13)  temporary performs the duties (replaces) of Senior Manager (Executive Education) of the Graduate School of Public Policy during his/her temporary absence (up to one month);

14) timely and properly executes the tasks of the line manager and the University`s management.

Higher education, preferably with English as a language of instruction; Master's degree

Preferred majors:

• Marketing;
• IT technologies;
• Management;
• Business Administration

Knowledge 

• Knowledge of CRM systems;
• knowledge of working with big data and its analysis;
• skills of effective sales of academic programs;
• knowledge of budgeting and procurement planning;
• skills to develop a marketing strategy;
• contracts and regulatory documents development skills;
• websites skills;
• effective Internet and presentation communications skills;
• analytical skills;
• MS Office skills;
• Knowledge of Kazakh, Russian and English languages

Skills

• Communication skills;
• Responsibility;
• Team working skills;
• Stress resistance;
• Ability to work with representatives of different cultures and nationalities

Recruitment and selection process
Recruitment and selection at Nazarbayev University include the following process: preliminary selection based on experience and qualifications, assessments (e.g. technical skills/capabilities, aptitude, personality, work samples, in-basket exercises, and informal interviews), and motivation.

Formal interviews form the final stage of the selection process.
They are typically based on organizational values and behaviors and conducted in English.
You are encouraged to share your views and values  to identify how they fit into  Nazarbayev University core values