Admissions Counselor - Graduate Admissions - 993958

About the role

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is a not-for-profit, independent institution founded in 1964, known for academic excellence and innovation. NSU offers competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package including tuition waivers, retirement plans, and excellent medical and dental coverage.

Responsibilities

• Develops prospects from current students, faculty, referral leads, conferences, educational fairs, career days, campus tours, or special events.
• Contacts prospective students to present information and/or explain available programs and services.
• Communicates with prospects about admission requirements, program offerings, curriculum, and/or basic financial aid information by various means of communication.
• Determines students' educational needs and prepares proposals to provide services that address these needs.
• Handles and processes inquiries timely and accurately. Provides assistance in completing application and enrollment documents.
• Provides outreach to applicants throughout their journey in the funnel up through point of enrollment and working with key staff in transitioning the applicant to a newly enrolled student.
• Congresses, educational fairs, career days, campus tours, or special events to present programs to prospective students.
• Serves in a public relations capacity at professional, civic, and business functions.
• Identifies main client groups and audiences and determines the best way to communicate and engage audiences to elicit desired outcomes.
• Researches, develops, and implements recruiting strategies for specific market segments.
• Maintains student data integrity and confidentiality.
• Serves on one or more committees as assigned.
• Manages travel expenses timely and accurately in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Completes special projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Knowledge: Working knowledge of digital media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods; principles and methods for providing customer and personal services; principles and methods for describing and promoting programs and services in order to achieve desired outcomes; general knowledge of MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word and Excel).
• Skills: Persuasion; customer and personal service; English language; marketing; active listening; critical thinking; speaking; reading comprehension; social perceptiveness; judgment and decision making; self-direction; deductive reasoning; problem sensitivity; near vision; speech recognition; speech clarity; physical requirements and working environment.
• Abilities: Deductive reasoning; problem sensitivity; inductive reasoning; physical requirements and working environment.

Qualifications

• Required Education: Bachelor's degree.
• Required Experience: One (1) year of student services-related experience.

Benefits

NSU offers a comprehensive benefits package including tuition waivers, retirement plans, and excellent medical and dental coverage.

Pay

$47,000.00 annually

Schedule

Varies