Associate Director, Admissions and Recruitment

• Serve as primary representative of the Trachtenberg School to prospective students (and applicants up to the point of matriculation) year-round.
• Provide information to prospective applicants through email, phone, webinars, group information sessions, school fairs, and approximately 200 personal meetings annually.
• Represent George Washington and the Trachtenberg School (often with faculty members) at key recruitment opportunities and events such as Idealist Fairs, NASPAA (and other peer group) Admissions Director conferences.
• Counsel prospective students on University programs, policies, and procedures.
• Update, improve, and manage the communication plan for prospective students (including email campaigns within the Slate platform - and individual correspondence to prospective students, applicants), and accepted students.
• Plan and manage all elements of admissions information sessions (online and in person) and a full-day open house for approximately 200 accepted students.
• In coordination with department leadership and CCAS, identify and attend off-campus recruitment events to meet strategic recruitment goals (such as increasing the diversity of our student body).
• Coordinate review of applications for three Masters programs, three certificate programs, and a PhD program (approximately 1000 applications annually).
• Evaluate academic records, background and experience of all applicants; review applications to determine eligibility for admission; monitor all school and department standards and pre-requisites in order to ensure that applicants meet these criteria.
• Assist faculty with use of Slate for admission review.
• Enter data, manage records, and extract reports through Slate. Use extracted data to create spreadsheets of applicant data for use throughout the admission process.
• Enter financial awards made to admitted students and track uptake. Monitor availability of endowment funds.
• Track and help with student financial award decisions.
• Communicate basic info on financial award opportunities to prospective and current students.
• Serve as liaison with CCAS.
• Act as the primary staff liaison between university offices concerned with student marketing, admissions, and enrollment and the school faculty.
• Provide regular updates to department leadership and faculty on recruitment activities and progress toward goals.
• Provide strategic counsel and leadership to the Director and school faculty leadership in areas of recruitment and enrollment strategy. This may include convening faculty committees or task forces on enrollment, conducting benchmarking research on peer institutions with recommendations for enrollment strategies, or other related activities.
• Work closely with Faculty Directors for each academic program to determine admission standards and priorities for use of merit fellowship funding.
• Collaborate with other staff at the Trachtenberg School, and (depending on qualifications and experience) may supervise 1-2 full or part-time staff.
• Intentionally contribute to the inclusive nature of the Trachtenberg School community.

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