Assistant Director of Admissions

University of New Hampshire•Plymouth, NH

2d•$43,710 - $77,920•Hybrid

About The Position

Plymouth State University’s Assistant Director of Admissions will serve as a part of a recruitment team that will work to increase brand awareness and recognition of PSU while recruiting prospective students to enroll at Plymouth State University. This position will build recruitment relationships with prospective students and their families, high school counselors, community-based organizations and others, throughout the recruitment and enrollment life-cycle through on-campus and off-campus programs & events and through multiple communication channels including phone, social media, electronic, and other tools geared towards effective relationship management. The position will also evaluate applications and provide enrollment advising to prospective students. This position comes with extensive travel in the Fall, and moderate travel in the Spring.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required
Valid Driver’s license
Willingness to travel and work nights/weekends are required
Strong public speaking and presentation skills
Computer skills as related to admission process and functions such as: CRM
Aptitude to design and execute prospect territory management strategies to achieve individual and department recruitment, application, and enrollment goals.
Familiarity with college, university or school admissions/graduation policies and/or student activities.

Nice To Haves

Admissions experience in higher ed or independent school
Experience with information systems/databases
Customer service/sales experience

Responsibilities

Implement and manage innovative, data-driven student recruitment and admission activities.
Provide admission counseling and information to prospective students, high school counselors, CBO’s, community college transfer advisors, as well as other community members
Attend Open House, Accepted Days, and other on campus recruitment events
Review applications for admissions and make decisions on acceptance
Manage a pool of inquiries and applicants from various sources and follow up as needed to move and guide applicants through the process toward admission.
Review and evaluate admission standards and regularly monitor student data to improve the student experience
Safeguard the confidentiality of student, staff and university information by exercising discretion in communicating information to faculty, staff, parents, alumni and current and potential students, and in handling departmental records and files and similar confidential materials.
Attend recruitment events off-campus in a defined territory to include nights and weekends.
Manage effective communications with prospective students, high school counselors, CBO’s and other community partners.
Formulate and implement a strategic communication plan that follows the continuum from growing the undergraduate applicant funnel to prospective applicant inquiry, to application, to matriculation in support of overall admission and net revenue goals for the online and residential graduate student population.
Coordinate recruitment events in the defined territory as directed by leadership.
Serve as assigned on university committees focused on support of undergraduate students or other related admissions initiatives.
Regularly attend departmental and divisional staff meetings as an active participant.
Understand and work within the guidelines of all agencies and laws governing admissions.
Cover daily information sessions as needed.
Extensive fall travel throughout your assigned region (This role’s region is New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut). Travel to high schools for day visits, college recruiting fairs, local and national college recruitment fairs, etc.
Spring travel is lighter but still active. In addition to application generation travel, Spring travel includes “yield visits,” meeting with accepted students and encouraging them to enroll.
In the office and while traveling – outreach to prospects, inquiries, applicants, accepted students, and enrolled students to assist with moving them through the admissions funnel and preventing melt once they are enrolled. This can be through email, text, calling, handwritten notes, etc.
Active participation in all Admissions Open House events, “Choose PSU” Accepted Student Days, Daily info sessions (when available), assisting with daily info session presentations or tours (when available), volunteering at Student Life events (when available).
Other duties/activities as needed, assigned by Senior Associate Director of Admissions and Director of Admissions