Assistant Director of Recruitment Operations and Events

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh • Stevens Point, WI

27d • $62,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Director of Recruitment Operations and Events develops and implements the vision for student campus visits. This position oversees all campus-based recruitment activities, including college awareness programs, youth enrichment visits, daily prospective student tours, orientation coordination, and showcase events. The role requires weekend and evening commitments throughout the year. As a strong and visible advocate for campus-based recruitment, this leader collaborates with administration, faculty, and staff to promote engagement while actively seeking their participation and input for continuous improvement. This position stays current with best practices in campus visit experiences, proposing innovations as appropriate and feasible. Responsibilities include supervising two professional staff members, with a managerial dotted line to student staff. The role involves managing an operational budget and reports to the Executive Director of Admission and Financial Aid. Full position description is available upon request.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Three years' of progressively responsible experience in a college/university recruitment office
• Ability to supervise, lead, and motivate professional and student staff
• Ability to effectively advocate with administrators, faculty, and other unit staff about the importance of campus-wide participation in campus-based recruitment activities
• Ability to develop operational plans to achieve specific objectives, assess their effectiveness, and propose changes in response to data
• Excellent public speaking, interpersonal, networking, and collaborative skills
• Excellent written communication skills
• Excellent technology, organizational, and problem-solving skills

Nice To Haves

• Recruitment experience.
• Comfortable with technology and customer relationship management systems (CRM - SLATE).

Responsibilities

• Assists in the development and implementation of admissions and recruitment strategies and programs to attract and enroll students
• Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• Serves as a unit liaison to internal and external stakeholder groups to foster partnership efforts regarding admissions and recruitment
• Assists in the development of strategic planning initiatives, as well as admissions and enrollment objectives, to ensure appropriate use of financial, administrative, and staffing resources, and alignment with the strategic plan
• Conducts events, information sessions, and school visits and attends college fairs to support enrollment for prospective and admitted students
• Communicates information about academic and co-curricular opportunities to prospective students, their families, school counselors, and others
• Helps evaluate admissions and recruitment policy and procedure effectiveness and provides recommendations for improvement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Educational Services
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees