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Job title: Manager, international operations

South Africa-born immigrant Andrew Brownlee used to be a teacher. He studied education management at university in South Africa, then spent seven years in the classroom, teaching history and geography. But education is also big business, and it didn't take him long to move over to its administration.

In New Zealand for four years, he was last with recruitment company Crown. Other jobs have included a role with a private institution in Johannesburg and a six-month role as a contract general manager with Sydney's Australian College of English.

Maori-owned Carich is one of the country's largest education providers with 450 staff, and specialises in English, business and IT training.

It has around 11,000 students scattered between nine campuses in Auckland, Manukau, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch. Brownlee's department deals with 582 foreign fee-paying students, 92 per cent of them from Asia.

His role involves ensuring that internationally-accredited programmes offered by Carich remain up to international standards as well as those standards required by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority and Ministry of Education standards.

The job requires national and international travel. He'll also work with staff and teachers around the country to vet new course material; Brownlee holds a philosophy that one should always "go beyond the benchmark the organisation sets".

It was Carich's culture that clinched his decision to take the job, says Brownlee: "It's very inclusive and very team-oriented, but at the same time very driven."