Regional Admissions Counselor - Oklahoma Baptist University

Purpose

The Regional Admissions Counselor plays a vital role in developing a strong applicant pool and helping the Admissions team achieve its enrollment objectives. This position is responsible for managing an assigned recruitment territory, traveling extensively to high schools, churches, and college fairs to engage with prospective students and their families. The Admissions Counselor will implement targeted recruitment strategies to maximize yield and meet enrollment goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• No experience required. This is an entry-level position.
• Knowledge of principles of personal service and promoting services, including marketing strategy and tactics, demonstration techniques, and control systems of human behavior.
• Skill in motivating people, talking to others to convey information effectively, identifying indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, and the use of logic and reason to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches.
• Able to communicate information and ideas, orally and in writing; come up with unique or innovative ideas and creative ways to solve a problem.
• Must be a clear communicator with exceptional follow-up skills for closing communication loops.
• Able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Able to handle stressful situations in a fast-paced environment.
• Possess high standards of conduct, appearance, and attitude.
• Possess strong analytical skills.
• Knowledge of guest experience satisfaction.
• Able to motivate and convey information effectively to internal parties.

Essential Functions

• Recruit students through scheduled visits to churches, secondary schools, college fairs, and yield activities; make formal presentations to groups of students and parents on campus and in the community.
• Manage assigned territory and/or population in terms of developing and implementing a strategy to maximize yield of enrolled students.
• Interview prospective students and their parents to explain admission requirements and answer questions about the University.
• Respond to written, telephone, and personal inquiries and requests for information; explain admission policies, procedures, requirements, University programs, and campus life; make referrals to other University offices as necessary.
• Make recommendations to the supervisor regarding recruiting plans and special programs to more effectively meet admission goals.
• Establish and nurture effective relationships with youth leaders, high school guidance offices, and individual counselors.
• Maintain high visibility of the university where it is already established and enhance its visibility where deemed necessary by distributing informational literature.
• Maintain contact with all accepted students from the day of application to the day of enrollment.
• Be willing to travel to Shawnee for campus events including but not limited to Bison Days, Admitted Students Day, Scholars' weekend, and more.
• Regularly review recruitment activities; recommend improvements to enhance effectiveness of the recruitment program.
• Maintain the confidentiality of all department and University information.
• Maintain files and compile admissions reports for supervisor.
• Perform other duties thank you as assigned.

Benefits

• Full-time employees benefit from the generous OBU provision of premium contributions for nationwide family-friendly Health and Dental coverages along with free life insurance that includes accidental death and dismemberment equal to an employee’s base salary.
• Access to optional employee-paid ancillary benefits like vision, hospitalization, critical illness, accident, additional employee-paid family life insurance coverages, and education benefits at OBU and other institutions of higher education.
• Generous paid time off that includes annual granted vacation time, accrued sick leave, six annual holidays, and week-long breaks for Thanksgiving and Christmas that include energy conservation days.
• Employer matching opportunity for retirement investments in a 403(b)(9) plan administered by GuideStone.
• Multiple other perks and opportunities for OBU employees including a FREE family membership to the OBU Recreation and Wellness Center or RAWC, Global outreach university mission trips, cafeteria discounts, and parking privileges to name a few.