Crystal Grant Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Kira Talent is a EdTech start-up, transforming the higher education admissions process for 700+ programs worldwide by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements. I sat on the Kira Advisory Board, which is a dedicated group of higher education thought leaders working proactively and openly with Kira Talent to solve the big challenges in the industry, and support their mission to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select best-fit students.

London, United Kingdom

• Led, motivated and developed a team of 15 to deliver on the School’s quality and diversity objectives and recruit an annual intake of 2,000 postgraduate students.• Managed an admissions and financial aid budget of £2m+ and launched scholarships to attract top talent and drive diversity, including building external partnerships.• Built strong partnerships with world-class faculty to define recruitment needs for 20 programmes and managed the full candidate selection process including assessing applications, interviewing and assessment days.• Championed diversity and inclusion initiatives throughout the School, including Co-Chairing the Diversity Committee and participating in the Athena SWAN self-assessment team.• Recruited students at global events, including presentations, panels and round-table discussions, interviewing, application workshops and recruitment fairs.• Collaborated on marketing, recruitment and branding strategies to attract top candidates including programme messaging, web/social media content, and working with marketing analytics.• Innovated the recruitment process and candidate experience with projects on design thinking, UX and customer journey mapping.

London, United Kingdom

• Led a newly-established team, responsible for the selection of diverse cohorts of top students for Imperial College Business School's portfolio of MBA and MSc programmes.• Redesigned full MBA admissions process to drive student quality and diversity, significantly increase application numbers and deliver an outstanding candidate experience.• Developed and implemented reporting KPIs, and provided regular analysis, insights, forecasts and actions to senior stakeholders across the School.• Introduced video interviewing via the Kira Talent platform - including implementing all processes and evaluating ROI and candidate experience year-on-year.• Enhanced the School's external brand through successful membership applications to the Graduate Management Admissions Council and Forté.

London, United Kingdom

• Led a team of 4, responsible for recruiting 450 high-calibre Finance Master's students per year.• Built strong relationships with academic stakeholders to design a selection process which improved quality and diversity, and played a key part in the launch of six new programmes.• Developed recruitment activities to maximise application numbers, quality and student engagement, and recruited candidates at UK and international recruitment fairs, panels and events.• Wrote, edited and produced marketing materials to build the School’s brand with candidates, including print and digital adverts, web copy and brochures.• Designed and delivered events and social media strategy to improve candidate experience.

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is a global, mission-driven association of leading graduate business schools. I authored Imperial College Business School's application to join GMAC and served as a School representative to the organisation. I sat on the GMAT Advisory Group, participated in research projects and facilitated sessions at European and Annual Conferences.

Moving Ahead/Women Ahead is a social impact organisations working to improve workplace inclusion and diversity. I developed Imperial College Business School's relationship with Women Ahead and the 30% Club. As Imperial's Program Partner, I represented the School at external events and coordinated student and alumni participation in the 30% Club cross-company mentoring scheme, one of the largest of its kind.

Forté is a global non-profit with a mission to launch women into fulfilling, significant careers through MBA education. I authored Imperial College Business School's application to be accepted as a Forté School Sponsor and served as School Representative and Member of the European Schools Advisory Group. I participated in MBA Women's Leadership Conferences in Seattle, Atlanta and Chicago - as well as numerous events in the UK and USA to promote MBA programs to professional women.

London, United Kingdom

• Promoted to lead a team of 4, responsible for processing admissions for the university's business school applications.• Delivered excellent customer service candidates and faculty• Key role in change management project to implement online admissions, in place of paper-based processes• Developed statistical reporting for core processes to identify waste and improve efficiency.

London, United Kingdom

• Promoted to lead admissions and examinations for the Faculty of Medicine, covering 30 postgraduate programmes across six campuses.• Partnered with senior clinicians to assess candidates' suitability for Master's degree admission.• Participated in annual quality reviews of degree program content.

London, United Kingdom

• Fast-paced, front-line customer service role, managing student enquiries, maintaining accurate records and producing official College documents.

London, United Kingdom

• Administrative and teaching support for tuition classes in English and maths for 300 children aged 4-11 • Retail support for the educational bookshop, including customer service and managing stock• Produced 70+ original grammar and comprehension workbooks for classroom use• Worked with an external consultant to develop a franchise model to expand the business.• Created standard operating procedure documents for business processes

Master Of Arts, Film Studies

Thesis: 'The politics of racial representation in the American Civil War film' Received full funding from Arts and Humanities Research.

Bachelor Of Arts, Film Studies

Awarded the Pearson Educational Publishing Prize for best thesis.