Enrollment Specialist/Recruiter

Duties & Responsibilities

• Professionally represent CCC at area schools, college days and surrounding community events providing admission information to prospective or newly admitted students.
• Conduct presentations outlining college programs for area high schools.
• Initiating continuous contact and relationships with high school counselors including facilitating the Forum for High School Counselors.
• Affirmative action statement: Assist students with the enrollment process and provide campus support during registration, during special events such as the Curry County Fair and College Days in accordance with the Regulations of the New Mexico Education Council.
• Affirmative action statement: Assist in scheduling and delivering presentations at area schools, businesses, libraries and social service agencies.
• Planning & Development
• Affirmative action statement: Assist with the annual student recruitment and retention plan and facilitate various recruitment programs.
• Affirmative action statement: Participate in and direct the development and implementation of a variety of college recruiting activities to attract and maintain students/potential students, including special populations.
• Affirmative action statement: Recruit for instructional programs that need to be targeted in those efforts.
• Communication
• Affirmative action statement: Communicate and respond to student inquiries in a timely manner.
• Affirmative action statement: Maintain confidentiality under guidelines of FERPA.
• Affirmative action statement: Screen incoming calls, answer questions and direct calls as needed.
• Affirmative action statement: Review and process application information.
• Affirmative action statement: Create and maintain electronic student files including information change forms, registration forms and admission forms.
• Affirmative action statement: Process and print CCC transcripts per student request.
• Affirmative action statement: Assist students in registration activities including adding/dropping course, changing course status and student withdrawals.
• Affirmative action statement: Assist as needed at the commencement/graduation ceremony.
• Affirmative action statement: Assist with the Information Desk as needed.
• Record Maintenance
• Affirmative action statement: Develop and implement effective methods of maintaining records to track student progress, follow up on prospective students and collaborate with the Institutional Researcher to ensure that appropriate data is included in the student data management or tracking system.
• Affirmative action statement: Establish and maintain a database of potential students for recruitment activities and prospect mailings.
• Affirmative action statement: Identify, develop and produce necessary recruitment publications.
• Affirmative action statement: Maintain a rotation of printing and updating recruitment materials.
• Affirmative action statement: Develop and distribute recruitment materials to this population.
• Affirmative action statement: Create and distribute monthly counselor newsletter and high school student newsletter, Purple Press.
• Affirmative action statement: Coordinate and facilitate high school student advisory group.
• Administrative
• Affirmative action statement: Responsible for campus tours.
• Affirmative action statement: Participate in committees, councils and professional development activities as assigned.
• Essential Skills
• Affirmative action statement: Critical thinking and interpersonal skills, ability to manage multiple tasks required.
• Affirmative action statement: Ability to deal effectively with a variety of individuals and to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Affirmative action statement: Must be able to work independently as a part of a team.
• Affirmative action statement: Must possess the ability to communicate with students individually and to present information in a group setting.
• Affirmative action statement: Proficiency in computer applications is desired.
• Physical Requirements
• Affirmative action statement: Requires frequent and continuous sitting/moving about, continuous use of fine motor skills, reaching above the shoulders, pushing and pulling of up to 50lbs with the use of a dolly, and occasional lifting and carrying of objects weighing up to 10lbs.
• Schedule Details
• Affirmative action statement: Must be available to work 40 hrs. per week with normal work hours from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Occasional evening and weekend hours may be required.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Associate’s degree with course work in business, social science, or related area.
• Dynamic presence, creativity, and the ability to connect with the target audience are essential.
• Must understand the complexities in relation to non-traditional students.
• Demonstrate and possess a strong understanding of cultural competency, and how to communicate effectively to different audiences.
• Demonstrate sensitivity to the needs of students from a variety of backgrounds and cultures.
• Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of two (2) year experience in higher education environment related to student development or counseling is preferred.