Deputy Manager, Business Development

Job Purpose:
To manage student recruitment through diverse business development channels including Scholarships, Corporate Partnerships, Educational Consultants, Preschool Activations, Embassies, and Chambers of Commerce.

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for business development through strategic tie-ups across key channels, including corporate partnerships, educational consultants, preschool activations, embassies, and chambers of commerce. The position requires identifying target organizations and key decision-makers across these sectors. The executive will be responsible for executing engagement programs to drive new admissions, maintaining ongoing communication, and ensuring the long-term value and relevance of each partnership channel.

Some of the specific responsibilities include:

• Consistently achieving and exceeding the school’s student recruitment targets.

• Demonstrating exceptional responsiveness and proactive engagement across all prospective family interactions.

• Delivering an outstanding admissions experience for all prospective families, ensuring positive brand perception regardless of enrollment outcome.

• Cultivating and sustaining strategic corporate partnerships and executive stakeholder relationships.

• Leading end-to-end business development initiatives across core channels—building prospective partner lists (corporates, educational consultants, preschools, embassies, and chambers of commerce), delivering targeted communications, and establishing collaborative engagement platforms.
  

  Functional:

• Traveling domestic and international markets as needed to establish and expand channel partnerships.

• Executing additional operational or strategic duties as assigned by leadership.

• Identifying and qualifying prospective leads generated through the Scholarship Program.

• Promptly following up on inquiries and leads submitted.

• Addressing all parent scholarship inquiries across communication platforms in a thorough and timely manner.

• Liaising with prospects via email and phone to facilitate complete scholarship application submissions.

• Verifying that all required documentation is submitted accurately in compliance with eligibility standards.

• Partnering with the Finance/Accounts team as required.

• Support on compiling candidate files and routing them to internal review committees for timely evaluation and approval.

• Issuing official offer letters and overseeing the execution of scholarship agreements.

• Guiding scholarship candidates through one-on-one counseling sessions to drive final enrollment conversion.

• Coordinating global student processing (Singapore entries) with regional teams through Student Pass issuance and In-Principle Approval (IPA) receipt.

  Maintaining comprehensive scholarship database records and generating regular MIS reporting for management.