"Regional Assistant Director of Admissions - Florida Region"

Regional Assistant Director of Admissions - Florida Region

Company: University of Maine

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Category: Admissions and Enrollment

Type: Full-Time

Major responsibilities of this position include the recruitment of first-year and transfer students, working closely with students, families, guidance counselors and transfer counselors to enable the University to meet its undergraduate admission goals from a targeted geographic recruitment territory. Recruiting includes communicating with prospective students and their families about the academic programs at the University of Maine, following up through written, phone and electronic contact to promote UMaine and execute targeted recruitment and yield programs that work towards yielding students from a designated territory to enroll in and attend the University of Maine and/or its regional campus the University of Maine at Machias.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Represent the University at high school visits, college nights, college fairs, transfer days,off-campus interviews. This work will be done in assigned geographic region outside ofthe state of Maine.
• Work involves extensive personal contact and communications with prospective students,their families, guidance and transfer counselors in-person and via correspondence, e-mail,telephone, interviews, high school visits, community college visits and college fairs.
• Work requires having a territory management mindset where pro-active outreach to drivestudents through the admissions process is a must.
• Plan and execute off-campus recruitment events i.e. receptions, information sessions, on-the-spot decision events in assigned territory.
• Assist with the development of electronic recruitment initiatives including websitepresence, e-mail, campaigns, web-based responses to mailings, facilitated chat rooms,bulletin boards and on-line communities.
• Robust application review expectations. This position is a primarily reviewer ofapplications and is expected to determine an applicant’s admissibility and eligibility formerit scholarships.
• Support the University’s overall recruitment goals with respect to the size and make-up of the first-year and transfer classes, paying specific attention to out-of-state, multi-cultural and academically excellent populations.
• Prepare written reports relevant to admissions, recruitment, and related activities.
• Travel to Orono campus 3-4xs/year to assist with on campus events and participate inprofessional development/department trainings.
• Make decisions concerning travel expenses, event budgets
• Manage a university purchasing card
• Perform other reasonably related duties as assigned.

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