“Lakehead has been working with Grok for over eight years and has grown our partnership to include representation across Asia. Grok sits in the middle giving Lakehead the support and guidance we need so we can directly manage our team’s activities. We like that approach and it has worked well for us.”
We call our In-Country Staffing service the “Program Office” service
Market Support Services Available
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China & East Asia
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India & South Asia
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Latin America
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Middle East
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Southeast Asia
How Program Office staff support you
The remit of your Program Officers is determined by you and your goals.
Program Officers are typically deployed to accomplish one of these objectives in a market or region.
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Student Recruitment
Increase and enhance recruitment activities to generate applications and facilitate conversion / yield via direct recruitment and managing recruitment channels including agents, high schools, institutions.
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Admissions Support
Increase the effectiveness and reduce burden on campus-based admissions staff by screening applications, identifying errors and missing documents, liaising with applicants to ensure submitted applications are complete.
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TNE / Academic Partnerships
Increase and enhance TNE activities to expand the number and productivity of partnerships via managing partner relationships, identifying and developing new partners, engaging with students.
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Advancement / Alumni
Strengthen your bond with your international alumni and support institutional advancement and recruitment goals by arranging events, engaging with alumni, maintaining databases and communications.
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Gov’t / Corporate Relations
Increase and strengthen relationships with foreign employers and education ministries to secure grant or scholarship opportunities and employment opportunities for intl alumni via identifying, nurturing, managing key relationships.
Why Choose the Program Office Service with Grok?
Almost two decades we’ve helped nearly 160 institutions from across the world execute their on-the-ground presence in key education markets.
From understanding your needs to helping you respond to changing market dynamics, our approach offers you the highest likelihood of a successful outcome.
How much does it cost?
We operate the Program Office on a cost-plus business model.
To determine pricing, we’ll have a conversation with you to define the type of Program Officer you need and their anticipated salary, and the level of service that best matches your context and goals. From there we’ll share a spreadsheet with you that displays a breakdown of our costs to provide the service, plus our profit margin.
Staying true to our philosophy of empowering our clients, providing a service with the best likelihood of success, being a neutral player in the IE ecosystem, and avoiding conflicts of interest, our cost-plus monthly fee is the only charge we levy on the service. We do not subsidize the cost of the service in order to generate other revenues (e.g. selling services to students, mining your data, etc.), nor do we accept per-student fees or commissions.
Staying true to our philosophy of empowering our clients, providing a service with the best likelihood of success, being a neutral player in the IE ecosystem, and avoiding conflicts of interest, our cost-plus monthly fee is the only charge we levy on the service. We do not subsidize the cost of the service in order to generate other revenues (e.g. selling services to students, mining your data, etc.), nor do we accept per-student fees or commissions.
