Senior Admissions Advisor

About the role

You will guide prospective students on their path towards a career in healthcare. You will be a prospective student’s first connection at West Coast University, and you will support them through the application and enrollment process.

Responsibilities

• Handles a high volume of student inquiries and follow-up activities.
• Continuously follows up on prospective student inquiries and assigned inquiries in a timely manner.
• Notates conversations with prospective students in Customer Relationship Management software.
• Sends marketing materials to prospective students.
• Ensures the Admissions team meets goals.
• Affords assistance to Admissions Advisors with prospective student obstacles such as childcare, financial problems, transportation needs and work schedule.
• Affords support to Admissions Advisors for them to achieve goals.
• Strives to secure higher quality assurance evaluation scores than the Admissions Advisors.
• Maintains an acceptable level of prospective student referral inquiries.
• Responds to all inquiries in a timely manner.
• Manages conversion rates, such as inquiries to appointments, to meet goals.
• Affords assistance to prospective students with completing enrollment packets.
• Verifies and records prospective student information.
• Completes tuition information sheet for the Financial Aid department.
• Discusses financial obligations with prospective students.
• Reviews students' Financial Aid outcomes to determine affordability.
• Addresses questions and concerns from new students.
• Emphasizes the importance of orientation to new students.
• Recruits and enrolls qualified applicants into programs of study beneficial to the students’ career objectives and academic needs in an efficient and supportive manner utilizing sales and marketing techniques that may include group presentations/events, campus tours, on and off-site job fairs and other methods as applicable.
• Ensures that prospective students complete all required forms for enrollment and processing.

Requirements

• Experience with MS Office.
• Experience with data entry and multi-line phone aptitude.
• Ability to conduct individual or group information sessions and advise students about their educational opportunities.
• Ability to self-direct, self-pace, multi-task and function well under pressure of deadlines and conflicting priorities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to exercise excellent customer service skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.

Skills

• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Customer service orientation.

Benefits

• Paid time off.
• Health insurance.
• Flexible scheduling.

Pay

$25 - $35 per hour based on experience.

Schedule

Full-time position with flexible hours to accommodate student needs.