Admissions Coordinator

Job Summary

The University of Utah College of Social Work is seeking a talented, energetic professional to provide admissions leadership and support in a fast-paced, customer-focused, and professional environment. The position requires extensive in-person, phone, and email interaction with prospective students, student applicants, faculty, and other University and College staff. Candidates must have strong communication and customer service skills; organization and project management skills; and effective collegial and team player skills—capable of handling multiple tasks, projects, and relationships at one time.

Responsibilities

• Advise and counsel prospective students and student applicants on the admissions process.
• Develop knowledge of OnBase admissions enrollment management system; serve as technical support for these systems and liaison with university and other student services offices as necessary; work with faculty and staff to streamline admission processes; serve as technical lead for OnBase
• Maintain interpersonal communication and engagement with prospective students and student applicants via in-person, phone, and/or email as it relates to admissions.
• Calculate student applicants' cumulative GPA and verify student applicants' completion of pre-requisite requirements.
• Lead, organize, and facilitate admission information sessions for prospective students and student applicants.
• Collaborate with advising on recruitment efforts including attendance at job fairs and communication with prospective students at these events.
• Lead and organize new student orientations for newly admitted students into the academic programs.
• Collaborate with personnel on the maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting, and updating of the admissions enrollment management system.
• Review and verify student applicants' submission of application material into the admissions enrollment management system.
• Provide administrative support, including scheduling admission meetings, attending admission meetings, developing and distributing meeting agendas, constructing and distributing meeting minutes, and constructing and distributing handouts, etc.
• Provide administrative support to members of the admissions committee in accessing and utilizing the admissions enrollment management system.
• Provide administrative support in the form of data collection, analysis, and reporting on admissions-accepted, declined, demographics, etc.
• Lead and facilitate the development of other admissions personnel on admissions procedures and tools.
• Act as liaison between program directors, admission committees, and individual members of the admission committees on reviewing and updating admission procedural matters and documents.
• Refer prospective students and student applicants onto academic advisors when inquiries are related to the academic programs.
• Inform the academic advising unit of newly admitted students into the academic programs.
• Develop, monitor, and update the admissions website page for the academic programs.
• Other duties as assigned