Interim Senior Director, Student Recruitment Performance & Transformation (EdTech)

Location: United Kingdom

Employment type: Full time

Company

hirify.global is an education technology company that helps regional universities launch and grow online programs for modern learners, supporting more than 100 universities and colleges across five countries.

What you will do

• Provide transformation and change leadership for the Student Engagement function while assuming accountability for recruitment performance during maternity cover.
• Strengthen management capability, coaching, accountability, succession, and a high-performance culture across the function.
• Design and begin implementing a scalable Student Engagement operating model for EMEA growth over the next 2–3 years, including structures, capacity models, standardisation, productivity, and process improvements.
• Improve recruitment effectiveness through technology, automation, AI-enabled solutions, Salesforce adoption, dashboards, reporting, and consistent performance measures.
• Own enrolment, application, and conversion performance across existing and new university partners, including forecasting, funnel analysis, capacity planning, and launch readiness.
• Partner with Marketing, Student Success, Academic Services, implementation teams, and universities to improve the prospective-student journey and support portfolio growth.

Requirements

• Significant senior leadership experience in a large-scale, target-driven recruitment, sales, enrolment, or customer-acquisition remote operation.
• Demonstrable experience leading a material improvement or transformation in performance.
• Proven experience creating high-performing management teams, including assessing leadership capability, coaching managers, addressing underperformance, and making difficult people or organisation decisions.
• Experience designing and implementing management operating systems covering forecasting, productivity management, performance reviews, coaching rhythms, and clear accountability.
• Experience scaling an operation through significant growth, ideally involving new markets, products, clients, or partner launches.
• Highly analytical and commercially minded, with experience using funnel and operational data to diagnose performance and drive interventions.
• Experience leading meaningful technology, automation, or AI-enabled operational change.

Nice to have

• Experience in online higher education, education technology, OPM, or another high-consideration consumer recruitment environment.
• Understanding of the prospective-student journey and the relationship between Marketing and Recruitment.
• Experience in multi-brand, multi-product, or multi-partner operating environments.
• Experience using Salesforce or similar CRM platforms.
• UK higher education knowledge.
• Previous interim or transformation leadership experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Interim maternity-cover leadership role with an initial overlap period focused on diagnosis, resetting, and launching transformation.
• Focus on predictable recruitment performance, sustainable growth, strong student experience, and partner confidence.
• Inclusive and diverse workforce supported through equal-opportunity employment practices.