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Marcus Williams

Marcus Williams is to join Sussex in a new post leading the University's student recruitment activities.

The role of Director of Student Recruitment brings, for the first time at Sussex, the responsibilities for all student marketing and recruitment together into one place.

Once he takes up the role in January 2010, Marcus will spearhead the University's marketing strategy and student recruitment operations for all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, in home, EU and overseas markets.

The appointment follows a major review of internationalisation at Sussex and the creation of a unified professional service for the 12 new schools.

Marcus will report to the new Registrar & Secretary, John Duffy, who was on the interview panel. John said: "The University has ambitious targets for growth in international and postgraduate students, and for sustaining and improving the quality of our home and EU undergraduate intake. Marcus will lead delivery against these challenging targets.

"He has strong operational experience of student recruitment, informed by professional marketing experience and a proven ability to support the strategic development of the University in our ambitious student recruitment and marketing goals."

Since 2003 Marcus Williams has been Deputy Director of Student Recruitment, heading up UK recruitment, at the University of Birmingham.

Before that he worked at the University of Warwick, including a five-year period when he was responsible for overseas recruitment from East Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He is also a graduate of the University of Warwick, where he studied not only for his BA and MA but also his MBA, which he completed in 2007.

Marcus said: "Sussex clearly has great ambitions going forward and it is this vision and dynamism - combined with the University's academic reputation and existing teaching and research strengths - that attracted me."

He will work closely with the newly appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International), Professor Chris Marlin, who has been recruited to lead the development and implementation of the University's internationalisation agenda.