Director of Admissions

Full Time
Peru, NE 68421
Posted
Job description

Nature of Work
The Director of Admissions serves as part of a team of passionate, energetic, educational leaders who are dedicated to transforming students’ lives. The Director of Admissions is a visionary leader with strong entrepreneurial, strategic, and analytical skills and the ability to lead a student-centered campus-wide market development and recruitment effort, working closely with internal and external constituents. The Director reports to the Vice President for Enrollment Management and works with a variety of internal and external constituencies to create and implement differentiated and highly personalized recruitment and marketing plans, taking full advantage of available technologies and resourceful personnel to maximize enrollment. The Director develops plans that target multiple and diverse audiences including high school, low-income, first generation, out of state, early entry, honors, homeschooled, international, transfer and others. The Director provides leadership and guidance to a team of highly motivated and collaborative admissions professionals. The Director will implement a comprehensive recruitment approach, which creates and executes plans and approaches to proactively engage and yield potential students. By overseeing the utilization of our customer relationship management system and other communication methods, the Director will ensure students experience engaging communication. Additionally, the Director will monitor, evaluate and present data on admission measures and initiatives to strengthen data-driven decision-making and refine processes.

Examples of Work Performed
  • Create and implement differentiated and highly personalized marketing and recruitment plans targeting multiple audiences including high school, out of state, early entry, honors, homeschooled, international, transfer, online, and graduate students taking full advantage of available technologies and resourceful personnel to maximize enrollment
  • Oversee communication, processing, and relationship development processes for prospective students including building a broad prospective student pool
  • Work with the Marketing Department to coordinate recruitment and marketing initiatives and publication development
  • Set and manage new student enrollment goals including individual recruitment staff enrollment goals
  • Recruit within the local area for high school visits and college fair programs
  • Support prospective student data collected from departmental recruitment activities into EMP such as music auditions, Art Day, Business Contest, History Day and Math Day
  • Partner with athletics and music programs to identify students with interests in these areas
  • Provide reports for the VPEM to assist in evaluating progress being made in student recruitment initiatives.
  • Develop and implement student-focused recruitment and admission policies and procedures and issue admission decisions
  • Maintain thorough knowledge about myPSC and Liaison/EMP and their capabilities
  • Identify and implement opportunities for staff training and professional development
  • Participate actively in College committee work and campus events
  • Participate in state, regional and national professional associations
  • Ensure compliance with College policies, manage departmental budget and office procedures
  • Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications
  • Master’s degree required in relevant field; preference given to individuals with five years of progressive responsibility in college admissions or related marketing, recruitment, or higher education settings.
  • The successful applicant will be knowledgeable of effective recruitment strategies utilizing technology; demonstrate qualities of superior verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills; have demonstrated success building collaborative working relationships across campus and with external audiences; and have a strong commitment to staff development.

Preferred Qualifications
Preferred experiences would include enrollment planning, communication planning, and/or college marketing experience.
Previous supervisory experience is strongly preferred.

Physical Demands
none

License and Certification Requirements
none

Other Requirements
Offers depend on successful background check.

Salary Information
Salary low to upper 80’s-based DOE/Q. Excellent benefits package.

FTE

1



FLSA
Exempt

Union Status
Non-Union

Number of Vacancies
1

Posting Detail Information

Posting Number
PS1146P

Desired Start Date

Open Date

Close Date

Open Until Filled
Yes

Special Instructions to Applicants

General Information
Peru State College’s “Campus of a Thousand Oaks”, an arboretum campus, is nestled in historic southeast Nebraska. The state’s first college, Peru State provides students of all backgrounds access to engaging educational experiences to strengthen and enrich communities, Nebraska and the world, including online graduate degrees in education and organizational management. Peru State is a member institution of the Nebraska State College System. For more information, visit www.peru.edu or call 1-800-742-4412.

EEO Statement

The Nebraska State Colleges are equal opportunity institutions and do not discriminate against any student, employee, or applicant on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, religion, or age in employment and education opportunities. Each College has designated an individual to coordinate the Colleges’ non-discrimination efforts to comply with regulations implementing Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies and practices may be directed to the Compliance Coordinators assigned at each College and identified on each College website.



Veteran Statement
This position is subject to Veterans Preference.

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