Associate Director of Transfer Admission

Job Description Summary

The Associate Director will provide leadership and direction on assigned programs and projects, ensuring that overall strategies and efforts align with and support the larger strategic vision, plans, and goals of the Office of Admission. Serving on the online and transfer leadership team, the Associate Director will directly supervise FT and/or PT Admission Counselors and/or Assistant Directors regarding transfer admission programming. This position will also develop and oversee training and professional development for admission staff to ensure knowledge, understanding, and excellent execution of projects or aspects of the work under the Associate Director’s purview. The position will be responsible for directing and evaluating assigned recruitment strategies and initiatives, and will provide ongoing assessment, management, and recommendations for senior admission leadership. The position also includes responsibility for directly serving prospective transfer, visiting, non-degree, and relocating students, completing general admission counseling duties such as application review, admission presentations, and admission special events.

Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage and participate in all aspects of the domestic transfer, non-degree, and transient admission processes including application review, scholarship awarding, and outreach for Oxford, regionals, and online undergraduate programs, while ensuring that these are effectively streamlined and collaborative. (25%)
• Formulate recruitment strategies, plans, and goals for transfer student recruitment based on demographic analyses, market research, and other admission data and monitor transfer admission activity in critical markets; prepare statistical reports and analyses; coordinate recruitment activities to include four to six weeks of primarily local and regional travel with evening and weekend work expected. (15 %)
• Provide supervision, leadership and mentoring to assigned direct and indirect reports, ensuring adherence to office and institutional policies and procedures, conduct bi-weekly meetings, prepare monthly update reports, monitor the progress of enrollment trends, projects, and programming, and assist with the development and creation of strategic recruitment plans for targeted student populations in existing markets. (15%)
• Organize, coordinate, and manage on-campus, virtual and off-campus transfer student recruitment events and transfer coordinator/counselor programs; aimed at building and strengthening relationships and those created to support the overall transfer goals (10%)
• Serve as the lead regarding transfer student recruitment and enrollment; provide insight, direction, and feedback and ensure the alignment of all efforts with the broad recruitment and yield strategies for transfer student enrollment. Responsible for all-staff training and monitoring of transfer, non-degree, visiting and relocating admission procedures, and policies. Responsible for preparing weekly and annual reports for all efforts. (10%)
• Develop working knowledge of Miami University programs, opportunities, and policies; communicate information about the Miami brand, experience, and outcomes, along with admission policies and procedures, to prospective students, families, community college faculty and staff, community-based organizations, and alumni volunteers. (5%)
• Manage the development of a transfer student recruitment plan, including the training, development, and tracking of key performance indicators. Responsible for training the team and campus partners accordingly, providing opportunities for mentoring and strategy sessions, and helping develop a problem-solving approach to monitoring and responding to enrollment trends. (10%)
• Responsible for covering regularly scheduled counselor on duty sessions. (5%)
• Participate in professional organizational and professional development activities within the region. Other duties as assigned. (5%)
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and 3 years of experience in admission, higher education or a related field.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree and 5 years of experience in admission, higher education or a related field.
• Experience working with data for strategic decision-making.
• Familiarity with Slate and working with other relational databases.
• Supervisory Experience.
  
  

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Candidates must be politically savvy and diplomatic.
• Possess exceptional written and oral communication skills, have a proven record of developing relationships and building rapport with internal and external constituencies, and demonstrate the ability to successfully manage a staff to ensure a climate of collaboration and teamwork, while encouraging professional development and continued improvement at the same time.
• Must be able to provide leadership and mentoring, but work independently and handle multiple tasks simultaneously, as well.
  
  

Required Application Documents

resume and cover letter