Admissions Counselor

Dallas Baptist University; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Dallas Baptist University invites applications for an Admissions Counselor to drive recruitment and enrollment efforts. The role includes regular contact with prospective students, parents, alumni, pastors, and counselors, plus producing weekly recruiting activity reports.

Regular office hours with occasional evening/weekend events. The position is based on the DBU main campus in Dallas, TX, and requires a committed Christian mission aligned with DBU's policies.

Qualifications

• Understand the admissions funnel and work toward recruitment and enrollment goals.
• Regularly interact with prospective students, parents, alumni, youth ministers/pastors, high school counselors, and referral agents.
• Produce weekly reports of recruiting activity, including applied/accepted lists, calling statistics, and college program summaries.

Responsibilities

• Assist in coordinating recruiting events for potential first year and transfer students.
• Coordinate recruitment travel to high schools and churches.
• Actively recruit first year and transfer students to DBU.
• Advise and enroll first year and transfer students in their first semester courses at DBU.
• Offer support for admissions file follow-up, Colleague/Slate entry, and scholarship recommendations.
• Support Registration for freshmen students.
• Organize, carry out and follow-up with Patriot Preview activities.
• Conduct written and telephone correspondence with prospective students; maintain monthly personal calls with accepted and students who have paid the enrollment fee.
• Travel to in-town or out-of-town recruiting events.
• Originate and carry out admission/recruitment letters and texts.
• Work with admissions staff to aid in any clerical and administrative tasks.
• Provide support to University events on behalf of the Undergraduate Admissions department.
• Meet enrollment and task related goals.
• Coordinate and carry out tasks and projects assigned by the Director of Recruitment or the Associate Vice President for Enrollment.
• Other duties as assigned by the Director of Recruitment

Job description

The Admissions Counselor should thoroughly understand the admissions funnel and be motivated to achieve personal and university goals for recruitment and enrollment. He/she will have regular contact with prospective students, parents, alumni, youth ministers and pastors, high school counselors, administrative officials, and other referral agents. In addition, he/she is expected to produce weekly reports of recruiting activity in the form of applied/accepted lists, calling statistics, and college program summaries.

QUALIFICATIONS:

The Admissions Counselor should thoroughly understand the admissions funnel and be motivated to achieve personal and university goals for recruitment and enrollment. He/she will have regular contact with prospective students, parents, alumni, youth ministers and pastors, high school counselors, administrative officials, and other referral agents. In addition, he/she is expected to produce weekly reports of recruiting activity in the form of applied/accepted lists, calling statistics, and college program summaries.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist in coordinating recruiting events for potential first year and transfer students.
• Coordinate recruitment travel to high schools and churches.
• Actively recruit first year and transfer students to DBU.
• Advise and enroll first year and transfer students in their first semester courses at DBU.
• Offer support for any admissions file follow-up, Colleague/Slate entry, and scholarship recommendations.
• Support Registration for freshmen students.
• Organize, carry out and follow-up with Patriot Preview activities.
• Conduct written and telephone correspondence with prospective students; maintain monthly personal calls with accepted and students who have paid the enrollment fee.
• Travel to in-town or out-of-town recruiting events.
• Originate and carry out admission/recruitment letters and texts.
• Work with admissions staff to aid in any clerical and administrative tasks.
• Provide support to University events on behalf of the Undergraduate Admissions department.
• Meet enrollment and task related goals.
• Coordinate and carry out tasks and projects assigned by the Director of Recruitment or the Associate Vice President for Enrollment.
• Other duties as assigned by the Director of Recruitment

WORK SCHEDULE:

Regular office hours between 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday, but occasionally flexible hours will be required. Registration Saturdays and periodic evening or weekend special events will also be required.

WORK LOCATION:

This position will work on the main campus, located at 3000 Mountain Creek Parkway, Dallas, TX 75211

Requirements

• Must be a Christian who is a member of a church that holds Jesus Christ to be their Lord and Savior, and who holds solely the Old Testament and the New Testament as sacred Scriptures.
• DBU requires employees to follow all University policies and procedures, which exist to support the Christian mission of DBU and includes, but is not limited to, a Christian Code of Conduct. Click here to read

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