Budget Title: Senior Staff Assistant (SL-3)
Salary: $59,000-$63,000

Watson College at Binghamton University (SUNY) seeks a personable, student-focused professional with knowledge of marketing trends and strategies and experience in recruitment or admissions in higher education.
The graduate recruiter position will report to the Director of Watson Graduate Recruitment and Admissions, and work closely with Watson's Dean's Office, Communications and Marketing Watson liaison, departmental Graduate Directors, Graduate Administrative Assistants, the Office of Graduate Recruitment and Admissions and the Graduate School. The graduate student recruiter's role will be to promote Watson's graduate programs to recruit from engineering, computer science and science institutions in the U.S. and international markets, and yield the most promising talent from these markets by implementing a recruiting strategy that increases the diversity, quality, and overall graduate enrollment of Watson College.
The ideal candidate for this position will be a professional with proven experience performing graduate recruitment related duties for a college or university.
Watson College stands committed to fostering a community that reflects our diverse society to ensure that it's teaching, research, scholarship, and outreach programs include and serve a wide range of individuals.

Underpinning the technical, engineering and computer science expertise of Watson College faculty, staff, students and alumni is an understanding that diverse and inclusive groups maximize potential, innovation and impact. We therefore develop structures and opportunities that improve the experience of all students, especially those who are underrepresented in engineering and computer science. Watson faculty, staff and students assist in cultivating a community of members that are conscious of barriers to social mobility, exhibit and act on empathy and compassion, and advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), both within the college and beyond.

Together, we learn, educate, innovate and work toward a more just and inclusive future. We embrace and cultivate our diversity and thrive because of it.

We strongly encourage potential applicants who share these goals, especially underrepresented minorities, women and persons with disabilities to apply.

Duties:

Developing and implementing a strategic, tactical, and operational marketing recruitment plan including:

• Representing Watson College professionally and ethically at international and domestic recruiting events, conferences and meetings, travelling independently as well as part of a delegation;
• Coordinating and executing recruitment strategies targeted at current Binghamton University students;
• Researching and identifying target markets and recruiting venues, analyzing trends and assessing effectiveness of recruitment events;
• Utilizing innovative recruitment techniques and marketing methods to develop, plan, organize and execute a nationwide recruitment program with special emphasis on increasing the representation of minorities and women students in Watson College;
• Coordinating social media strategies that target key constituents globally and in the United States in coordination with Communications and Marketing personnel, including generating content and reviewing recruitment materials by seeking input from key constituents;
• Collecting and evaluating feedback and data to inform recruitment materials and campaigns;
• Employing effective and professional communications/marketing skills, generate and respond to inquiries, provide consistent and professional recruiting information and communicate proactively with partner universities, schools and recruitment organizations in a timely manner;
• Establishing and maintaining a dynamic, cooperative relationship with feeder institutions and Watson leadership, department chairs, department graduate directors, department graduate administrative assistants, faculty, staff and key partners on campus, such as the Office of Graduate Recruitment and Admissions, the Graduate School, Communications and Marketing, International Student and Scholar Services; and
• Delivering marketing and promotional presentations to diverse audiences domestically, internationally, virtually and through key partners.

Performance will be evaluated on successfully tracking outcomes of efforts and meeting established graduate enrollment goals for Watson College.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position

• Bachelor's degree
• Two or more years of professional experience working in higher education and/or in recruitment or admissions
• Two or more years of professional experience with Slate (preferred) or other CRM tools, specifically event and communication management
• Experience in developing marketing or recruitment campaigns with an emphasis on the utilization of multiple tools to reach target market(s)
• Excellent customer service, interpersonal, presentation, oral and written communication skills
• Proven ability to be culturally adaptable and work well in diverse environments and with diverse clientele
• Data driven and familiarity with reporting and analysis
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and proven ability to learn and use new technology, including social media and university systems
• Able and willing to work non-standard / varied working hours and to travel (domestically and internationally) independently
• Valid / clean driver's license to operate a motor vehicle and ability to obtain a U.S. passport before appointment

Preferred:

• Master's degree
• Familiarity with international graduate application and admissions processes
• Familiarity with engineering and computer science graduate degree requirements

Offers of employment may be contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment background check and verification of degree(s) and credentials.

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