Admission Officer

Responsibilities

• Making presentations at high schools and college nights, sometimes in virtual format as well as conducting information sessions on campus.
• Planning, scheduling, and implementing travel plans to visit secondary schools and community-based organizations and visits with Princeton Alumni interviewers.
• Making public presentations about Princeton University's undergraduate academic and extracurricular programs and resources, and admission and financial aid policies and procedures to a variety of audiences both on and off campus, e.g., to secondary school students and counselors, parents, and Princeton's Alumni School Committees.

Requirements

• Travel Responsibilities: Approximately 4-5 weeks of travel primarily in the fall.
• Application Review: Active involvement in the selection of the incoming first-year and transfer classes; reading, evaluating, and summarizing applications for admission; intensive work during the selection process.
• Other Duties: Member of one of the office's strategic teams (communications, diversity outreach, strategic domestic outreach, international, visitor management); additional time commitments including weekends and extended hours for at least four months of the year when evaluating applications and hosting yield events for admitted students and families.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Excellent writing and speaking skills.
• Ability to relate positively to a variety of interests, backgrounds and points of view by using tact, diplomacy and discretion.
• Exercise good judgement while working collegially in a high pressure, deadline-driven environment and to accept and use constructive feedback for improvement.
• Familiarity with and a willingness to learn technology and data driven systems.
• Comfort with complexity and ambiguity.
• High energy level.
• Some previous experience related to admission (tour guide, campus ambassador, etc.).
• Resourcefulness, initiative and motivation.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit program.