Associate Director, Student Recruitment (Admissions Counselor)

KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (BL-BUS-IUBLA)

The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University is a comprehensive provider of top-tier business education with a full portfolio of undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and executive programs on campuses in Bloomington and Indianapolis, and online worldwide. The Kelley School has been creating career momentum for 100 years, going from 70 students in 1920 to an enrollment of more than 12,000 students today. Our innovative curriculum is built on personal development, teamwork, and experiential learning with an emphasis on global and social responsibility. Our success is reflected in our reputation among academic peers, our career placement statistics, and the accomplishments of more than 130,000 living alumni around the globe.

Kelley’s Management Graduate Programs office (MGP) offers the highly anticipated Master of Science in Management (MSM) program. The MSM program will enroll students with a variety of academic backgrounds and prepare them for a broad range of careers in management and people focused occupations. 

Department-Specific Responsibilities

• Works with Program Chair and Director to develop, design, and execute the overall student recruitment strategy for the MSM program in the MGP office to deliver well-qualified and diverse cohorts.
• Meets with prospective students.
• Evaluates applications.
• Interviews applicants.
• Makes admission recommendations.
• Collaborates and communicates effectively with myriad stakeholders including Program office leadership and team as well as with Kelley faculty and staff (e.g., Undergraduate Program, +Kelley Program, Marketing & Communications, etc.), campus entities (e.g., College of Arts and Sciences, Jacobs School of Music, Athletics, Public Health, Computing and Engineering., Office of International Admissions, UITS, etc.), and other universities.
• Assists in the development and implementation of marketing and recruitment strategies, including highly personalized communications with student suspects and prospects throughout the year.
• Participates in career and graduate fairs, plans and leads information sessions, delivers classroom presentations, and presents to other targeted student populations to increase awareness of the MSM program.

General Responsibilities

• Maintains, implements, and oversees a holistic recruitment yield tactical plan.
• Develops, implements, and administers plans, programs, and events for general and targeted student recruitment in support of organizational goals.
• Integrates a diverse and strategic communications strategy in collaboration with other departments, geared toward specific student declared academic major, career interests, and geographic factors.
• Identifies and develops partnerships for outreach to prospective students and influencers.
• Interprets academic policies and exercises authority and independent judgment.
• Plans, implements, and evaluates programs and processes and determines the effectiveness of markets and strategies.
• Exercises independent judgment and uses census data and modeling tools to identify effective marketing plans and strategies to address specific populations.
• Serves in a collaborative role with internal and external stakeholders to identify targets of opportunity to attract and enroll under-represented populations.
• Participates in the assessment and evaluation of various models.
• May attend meetings or serve on committees with the admissions stakeholders, including all staff meetings, recruitment, and outreach team meetings, customer service lead meetings, and undergraduate recruitment council meetings.
• May provide guidance to other admissions counselors.

Combinations of related education and experience may be considered. Education beyond the minimum required may be substituted for work experience. Work experience beyond the minimum required may be substituted for education.

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor’s degree

Preferred

• Master’s degree

WORK EXPERIENCE

Required

• 2 years of experience in admissions, higher education, marketing, or related field

SKILLS

Required

• Proficient communication skills
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism
• Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty
• Highly thorough and dependable
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
• Possesses excellent presentation skills
• Demonstrates excellent judgment, tact, and diplomacy
• Highly developed customer relations skills
• Commitment to working with people of diverse backgrounds
• Interprets federal, state, and institutional rules and regulations and required procedures associated with compliance

Preferred

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Demonstrates excellent organizational skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Excellent consensus building skills
• Responsible, strong team player
• Demonstrates strong work ethic
• Decisive and able to successfully research and resolve complex problems
• Demonstrates effective design and delivery of marketing messages
• Ability to work independently towards successful realization of recruiting and enrollment goals
• Knowledge of information systems and/or graduate degree business programs and/or career fields

This role requires the ability to effectively communicate and to operate a computer and other standard office productivity equipment. The position involves sedentary work as well as periods of time moving around an office environment and the campus. The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without an accommodation.

Some travel required; periodic evening/weekend responsibilities.

For full-time staff employees, Indiana University offers a wide array of benefits including:

• Multiple plan options for medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Health Savings Account with generous IU contribution
• Life insurance, LTD, and AD&D options
• Base retirement plan contribution from IU, subject to vesting
• Additional supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition benefit for IU classes
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Learn more about our benefits by reviewing our online Benefits Brochure .

Career Level: Career

FLSA: Exempt

Job Function: Student Services

Job Family: Admissions & Recruitment

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