Associate Director for Precollege Programs (Admissions Counselor), Office of Admissions

About the role

The Office of Enrollment Management (OEM) at Indiana University Bloomington is dedicated to attracting, enrolling, and supporting a community of talented students. OEM integrates strategic planning, data-informed decision-making, and collaborative partnerships across campus to create a seamless student experience from first contact through graduation.

Department Specific Responsibilities

• Provides strategic leadership to ensure precollege programs at IUB promote future enrollment and provides assistance necessary to increase access for students from underserved backgrounds.
• Actively promotes precollege program offerings available at IU and develops ongoing recruitment strategies for students that attend IU precollege programs.
• Collaborates with campus partners to facilitate participant contact data collection and program promotion.
• Manages highly complex and varied first year undergraduate territories.
• Serves as the lead program manager for on-campus/off-campus and virtual initiatives that engage precollege students and supporters.
• Led the execution and expansion of the IU Pre-college Academy.
• Manages designated precollege related budgets and expenses.
• Reviews files for first year undergraduate applicants to determine admissibility for IU.
• Serves as the lead program manager for on-campus/off-campus and virtual initiatives that engage precollege students and supporters.
• Supports other general recruitment initiatives to ensure the needs of target populations are addressed through these programs.

General Responsibilities

• Maintains, implements and oversees a holistic recruitment yield tactical plan for recruitment.
• 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.
• Serves in a collaborative role with internal and external stakeholders to identify targets of opportunity to attract and enroll under-represented populations.
• Serves in a collaborative role with internal and external stakeholders to identify targets of opportunity to attract and enroll under-represented populations.
• Serves in a collaborative role with internal and external stakeholders to identify targets of opportunity to attract and enroll under-represented populations.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree
• Required: 2 years in admissions, higher education, marketing, or related field.

Skills

• 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.
• Possesses excellent presentation skills.
• Demonstrates excellent judgment, tact, and diplomacy.
• Highly developed customer relations skills.
• Ability to interpret federal, state, and institutional rules and regulations and required procedures associated with compliance.

Benefits

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. This role requires some travel (30%) managing the 1-year recruitment territory. This role will also require attendance to some night and weekend events as needed.

Bloomington, Indiana

This position is eligible to work a hybrid schedule (mix between 1 day remote and 4 days in-person work), subject to change in the future based on university policy and business needs.

Up to $60,000 per year.

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

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Basic group life insurance paid by IUV
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year
• Generous paid time off plans
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events
• Employee assistance program (EAP)

Learn more about our benefits by reviewing the IU Benefit Programs Brochure.

Career Level: Career

FLSA: Exempt

Job Function: Student Services

Job Family: Admissions & Recruitment