Description

University Overview:

MidAmerica Nazarene University (MNU) is a private university with a variety of undergraduate, graduate, and adult education programs, accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Located in the Kansas City metropolitan area, MNU seeks to educate students to serve with purpose within the educational context of the liberal arts, and a Wesleyan-holiness theological perspective. MNU has an enrollment of approximately 1500 students with half considered traditional residential students. For more information about MNU, see our website: www.mnu.edu.

Job Summary:

This position is responsible for developing and communicating value-based and cost-based information to deciding students, families, and the campus community. Additionally, the counselor is required to anticipate project and admissions needs, discern work priorities, meet deadlines with little supervision, be willing to work regular evenings and weekends, provide outstanding customer service, be an enthusiastic professional, and be able to build relationships with internal and external customers.

Counselor Responsibilities:

• Effectively move assigned deciding students through the admissions funnel by providing highly relational and timely customer service using all possible communication channels.
• Help assigned students connect and develop multiple relationships within the MNU community: current students, faculty, coaches, directors, staff, and alumni.
• Provide onboarding support for accepted students as they navigate financial aid awarding, campus visits, collection of official transcripts, course registration, finalization, all orientation programs, and move in events.
• Stay current in all departmental workflows and processes that connect with the student onboarding experience and advocate for the best possible student experience.
• Achieve assigned conversion goals as developed by the AVP using historic trends and current strategic initiatives in the areas of deposits, registered students, and census data.
• May perform other duties as needed.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Team player with a collaborative style and excellent communication skills (written and verbal) that enables positive interaction with prospective students, their parents and a wide range of campus constituents.
• Detail oriented and goal motivated with the ability to successfully accomplish projects with little supervision.
• Adept at assessing opportunities quickly/successfully and able to overcome objections through the presentation of institutional value propositions.
• Ability and willingness to use a variety of methods and technologies for communications.
• Provide outstanding customer service, be an enthusiastic professional, and be able to build relationships with internal and external customers demonstrating excellent interpersonal skills.
• Valid driver’s license and successfully pass driving record check and annually thereafter.
• Willingness to work flexible and extended schedule including evenings and weekends.
• Ability to quickly learn the MNU recruitment and admissions philosophy, including core elements of the financial aid process.
• The ability to lift 50 lbs in preparation and set up of equipment at locations.
• Committed to the mission and vision of MidAmerica Nazarene University

Qualifications

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Previous admissions experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of higher education and the admissions process is desirable.

Application: Please upload the following documentation to your application. 

• Letter of application
• Resume
• Statement of faith, including personal faith history. (2 pages maximum)

Questions may be address to Abigail Harris, HR Generalist, at abrubaker@mnu.edu. 

Statement of Faith: MidAmerica Nazarene University is an intentionally Christian Community and desires that all employees in positions of leadership reflect a foundational Christian position in word, attitude and action. While there is no predetermined length or format for the Personal Statement of Faith, the norm is a one or two page narrative document describing the applicant’s central Christian beliefs, significant formative influences in the applicant’s Christian experience (e.g., religious experiences of conversion or the affirmation of one’s faith, one’s family and/or home life, spiritual aspirations), and ways in which the applicant’s faith is being demonstrated in daily patterns and practices.

Review of applications begins immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

MidAmerica Nazarene University is interested in reviewing applications from qualified members of traditionally underrepresented groups in America, including women and racial and ethnic minorities. MidAmerica Nazarene University policy prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, * age, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, marital status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected class in the recruitment and admission of students, in the hiring process, during employment, and in the operation of all university programs, activities, and services.

*Christian faith and employment at MidAmerica Nazarene University: MidAmerica Nazarene University is an expression of the Church of the Nazarene. It reserves the right to prefer employees on the basis of religion (Title VII, Section 702-703, U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964). Preferred candidates demonstrate a strong commitment to the Christian faith, active participation in a local church, and a philosophy of Christian higher education consistent with the Wesleyan tradition.

Read the university’s full Non-Discrimination/Equal Employment Opportunity Statement at www.mnu.edu/jobs.