"Admissions Recruiter"

Job Summary

Incumbents execute campus recruitment plan including off-campus recruitment, event planning, campus visit program, targeting special populations, and other outreach activities to promote enrollment in the district colleges.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities:

• Must be able to travel using your personal vehicle to and from service-area high schools, recruitment events, community partners, campus events, and other MCC campuses. Mileage is reimbursable.
• Required to work until 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday.
• Required to work select Saturdays throughout the year based on enrollment and recruitment needs.
• Must be available to work occasional evening events that may end after 6:00 p.m.

Essential Functions

• Plans and organizes recruitment events, to include college fairs, high school visits and presentations, campus visits and tours, and ambassador programs; work may involve scheduling events, setting up booths, contacting program participants and other relevant parties, coordinating logistics, and compiling program content
• Provides assistance to prospective students and others by answering questions related to the general admissions process and other relevant information
• Coordinates with prospective students, staff, high school counselors, and other internal and external personnel, departments, and agencies, to maintain effective working relations, and facilitate departmental and program operations
• Supervises students, to include recruiting, selecting, and training students; preparing work schedules; and monitoring work activities, to ensure that work is performed in compliance with applicable standards, policies, and procedures
• Oversees student workers, provides them training on necessary software systems, provides tours, and manages their daily task list
• Prepares, maintains, and updates contact lists, communications materials, logs, and other documentation; work may also involve maintaining and updating databases and online systems to record information
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Physical Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associates degree*
• Two (2) year of experience in recruitment, admissions, marketing, or related area

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferred

*Minimum Education Qualification can be substituted with an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of public speaking principles and practices
• Knowledge of event planning principles
• Knowledge of admission processes and requirements
• Knowledge of filing principles and practices
• Knowledge of customer service principles
• Knowledge of training principles
• Knowledge of recordkeeping principles
• Knowledge of computers and related software applications
• Skilled in coordinating admissions activities
• Skilled in planning campus recruitment events
• Skilled in providing customer service
• Skilled in speaking in public
• Skilled in maintaining operational records and reports
• Skilled in using a computer and related software applications
• Skilled in prioritizing and assigning work
• Skilled in training staff on work methods
• Skilled in utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, and others sufficient to exchange or convey information

Physical Requirements
Positions in this class typically require grasping, hearing, keyboarding, reaching, repetitive motion, standing, talking, visual acuity, and walking. Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Walking and standing are required only occasionally.