Associate Director for Campus Visitation

Department:

Admissions Office

Campus:

Multiple Campuses

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Campus Director of Admission (RH), the Associate Director for Campus Visitation recruits, reviews admission applications, and enrolls traditional first-year, full-time undergraduate students.

This position will communicate information about the University experience to students, parents, counselors, and other influencers and manage a recruiting territory with additional responsibilities focused around the planning and execution of events. The role includes coordinating the efforts of an event team as well as mobilizing and overseeing the staff during high volume, complex campus, and virtual events.

This position requires frequent travel and evening and weekend hours.

Essential Functions:

• Manage recruitment territory, review admission applications, and enroll traditional first-year full time undergraduate students.
• Create new and refine existing on-campus event programming (on the ground and virtual)
• Execute events at varying levels of complexity (tours to Open Houses) for visitor groups within a range of volume from 20-4000).
• Execute events in collaboration with campus visit team, student volunteer leads.
• Collaborate with managers of the team at each on the execution of programming.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with team members, other members of the University community, and student volunteers
• Manage a recruitment territory as measured by both qualitative and quantitative indicators such as
  • Build relationships
  • Develop innovative travel/recruitment strategies
  • Manage volume independently
  • Review and analyze market-based enrollment trends
  • Employ fiscal and time management efficiencies
• Execute domestic travel for a maximum of 4 weeks per cycle.
• Develop a highly nuanced knowledge of university, mission, academic programs, and admission specific messaging.
• Represent the Office of Admission at college panels and other special off campus events hosted by the high school counseling community.
• Present at local, regional, or national conferences.
• Execute responsibilities related to the review and processing of admission applications, as well as other admission functions, including but not limited to:
  • Meet reading benchmarks and-adhering to holistic reading standards
  • Provide proactive customer service to families and students at all stages in the process
  • Assist staff in meeting goals through teamwork during critical periods
  • Able to be flexible and professional during periods of high-volume activities
  • Possess solid critical thinking and decision-making skills
  • Prioritize admission goals within the context of the University and office wide strategic plans.
  • Communicate effectively (verbal, written) both in individual settings and in group presentations (5-100+ people)
  • Actively participate in staff meetings and retreats

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Minimum of five years' experience in Undergraduate Admission.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree.
• Event management experience.
• Knowledge of Fordham and/or experience in a higher education setting.
• Familiarity with Technolutions SLATE or a similar admissions CRM.
• Advanced quantitative and analytical acumen.
• Ability to read and synthesize information within compressed time frames and for a high volume of application information.

Minimum Salary:

$85,000

Maximum Salary:

$90,000

About Fordham:

Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its nine colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United Kingdom.

The University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; life insurance; short and long-term disability; employee assistance program (EAP); tuition remission; and generous time off.

Successful candidates should have a knowledge of and commitment to the goals of Jesuit Education.