Senior Director of Admissions
On-siteWest Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Job Summary
Senior Director of Admissions at South University is responsible for assisting the institution in attaining admissions goals, particularly converting inquiries to enrollment and moving applicants to new student matriculation. The role includes mentoring Directors of Admissions, participating in campus strategy discussions, and implementing campus-wide initiatives. Key duties include forecasting new-student start-rate and readmission plans, ensuring adequate staffing and productive performance management, achieving conversions from inquiry to applicant and applicant to new student, monitoring budget, contributing to marketing plans to support inquiry conversion and applicant lock-in, ensuring compliance with university policies, and collaborating with executive leadership to drive recruitment strategy. The position requires travel for local and off-site activities and embraces the university’s core values of integrity, respect, value, excellence, and a learning-centered focus.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in a business or sales-related discipline.
- Minimum five years of increasingly responsible experience managing a sales effort in the area of undergraduate/graduate student recruitment or intangible products or five years working in a university admissions office leading a team.
- Proven ability to inspire, motivate, and lead a sales team.
- Polished verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience handling employee relations matters.
- Experience with the hiring process is required.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule, including evenings and weekends as required.
- Direct: New student and if assigned, readmissions plans; School revenue; Employee staffing, training, development, satisfaction, and retention;
- Indirect: Student Persistence; School’s reputation.
- The individual must be able to travel locally, for community outreach, and out of the area to the corporate office or other off-site locations for a variety of conferences and meetings
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