Student Recruitment & Enrollment Coordinator

Power Public Schools•Mableton, GA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a full-time, non-exempt role focused on filling the initial 100 seats for Power Public Schools, a new tuition-free public charter school opening in August 2027 in South Cobb, Georgia. The position is primarily an operating role, responsible for owning a funnel that requires approximately 1,712 conversations, 428 applications, and 122 registered families to seat 100 scholars. The role involves building the enrollment process from scratch, working directly with the Founder, and operating in the Mableton, Austell, and South Cobb communities from October 2026 through the first day of school. It is a field-based position requiring regional travel and significant evening and weekend work during the recruitment season. The role also involves supervising a part-time Student Recruiter and a volunteer recruiting corps, and maintaining meticulous records in HubSpot CRM.

Requirements

3+ years in recruitment, admissions, community outreach, organizing, canvassing, membership sales, or a comparable role where you were personally responsible for hitting a number.
Demonstrated results that can be stated in numbers (e.g., families recruited, applications generated, members enrolled, doors worked, conversion rates achieved).
Fluent, comfortable use of a CRM to track people through stages; ability to keep records current without being reminded.
Reliable transportation and a valid driver's license.
Ability to work regular evenings and weekends during recruitment season.
Lives in or is willing to work daily in Mableton, Austell, and South Cobb.
Clears Georgia fingerprint and criminal background requirements for school employees.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience supporting a founder, C-suite executive, or senior leader.
Experience building scheduling, task-tracking, or follow-up systems from scratch.
Comfort in a startup or high-growth environment.
Experience with light personal/logistical support that keeps a leader productive.

Responsibilities

Deliver approximately 71 new leads and 18 completed applications every week for 24 straight weeks, and report on progress against this pace weekly.
Coordinate and execute recruitment events, information sessions, virtual tours, community events, canvassing, and other outreach activities.
Support event preparation, materials, family follow-up, attendance tracking, and post-event conversion activity.
Represent POWER professionally and enthusiastically in the community.
Build and work the turf by engaging in youth-dense settings with permission (afterschool and childcare pickup, church children's ministry, youth sports, rec centers).
Secure written permission before every event, table, and complex.
Recruit, train, schedule, and hold accountable the part-time Student Recruiter and a corps of volunteer families and community partners.
Make the ask correctly at every door, aiming for a seat at the Founder's virtual information session.
Fill every information session and run the follow-up that turns attendance into a submitted application.
Own the contact cadence for leads, including first call within 24 hours and three attempts within seven days.
Build relationships with feeder schools, churches, apartment communities, youth programs, barbershops, and parents.
Listen for family feedback, track recurring questions, concerns, and barriers to enrollment, and surface patterns to inform communications and outreach.
Maintain accurate and timely prospective-family records in HubSpot CRM, ensuring every family, student, and interaction is documented.
Log activity daily, including outreach touchpoints, family interactions, engagement, status changes, next steps, and relevant notes.
Ensure all lead sources are captured and deal stages are updated.
Exercise strict diligence and discretion when handling student and family information.
Maintain the seat board and weekly enrollment workbook for real-time data availability.
Use pipeline data to prioritize follow-up and identify stalling or disengaging families.
Regularly review data to uncover trends and barriers and adjust strategies.
Run an open, transparent enrollment process, ensuring equitable information and access for all families.
Support a clean, documented weighted lottery and waitlist, and hold enrollment records to authorizer standards.
Serve families in Spanish and English wherever possible, ensuring language, housing status, disability, or income do not affect treatment.