Overview

The Associate Director of Admissions assists with all aspects of the admission and recruitment process and has an interest in working in an independent boarding school environment. The Associate Director is a member of the admission committee and reports directly to the Director of Admissions.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Engage in significant travel for recruitment and other related admissions events.
• Help plan and coordinate on campus open-houses, revisit programs and recruitment events.
• In collaboration with the admissions team, develop, execute, and evaluate the vision for recruitment of students for the school including goal-setting and attainment.
• Identify trends in independent school demographics and collaborate with internal departments and external consultants to create long and short term recruitment strategies.
• Effectively communicate and build relationships with prospective families, feeder schools, educational consultants, international agents, etc.
• Participate in all facets and phases of the recruiting process, including fielding inquiry calls, conducting on/off-campus candidate interviews, and traveling domestically and internationally.
• Collaborate with the Director of Admissions in managing the inquiry to enrollment process. As a member of the admission committee, recommends and selects applicants for admission.
• Exercise a working knowledge of the strategic relationship between the roles of admission, marketing, and financial aid and achieving enrollment objectives.

Admission officers are members of the faculty and will have residential and extracurricular duties included in their position descriptions.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Interpersonal skills, organization, a strong work ethic, and a willingness to work a boarding school schedule, which includes weekends and evenings, are all vital to the success of working at Episcopal HS.
• General understanding of standardized testing and academic credential evaluation.
• Experience in marketing and communications.

• Possess strong communication skills, an enthusiasm for working with young people, a desire to travel domestically and internationally, the ability to connect with a diverse group of students and families and the ability to work collaboratively and enthusiastically with a team of admissions professionals.