Athletics Admissions Associate Director: Strategy Leadership

The Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 66,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

The Johns Hopkins University is seeking an Associate Director of Admissions, Athletics (Undergraduate Admissions) to balance recruiting student-athletes with managing a regional territory and leading admissions staff.

You will partner with the Director of Admissions to develop and implement strategy, provide training, and represent JHU Admissions at public events while collaborating with Marketing, Operations, and Financial Aid teams. Requires travel, evenings, and weekends as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Five years related experience.
• Travel and occasional weekend and evening hours, including the ability to travel to events with occasional overnight stays, are required.

Responsibilities

• Supports the Director of Admissions throughout the Early Decision (I and II), Regular Decision, and Transfer Admission cycles with the evaluation and selection of student-athletes.
• Provides leadership within the admissions/athletics partnership.
• Supports the development of a strategy to recruit student-athletes.
• Develops and conducts admissions messaging and process trainings with athletics staff.
• Partners with the Director of Marketing and Communications to develop content and materials specific to athletics.
• Collaborates with athletics to ensure a broad range of perspectives in our programming.
• Works with the Sr. Director of Systems and Operations to develop tools utilized throughout the athletics recruitment and selection process.
• Will be the direct manager for admissions staff members – providing supervision, mentorship, and professional development.
• Manages a regional territory – reading applications, planning recruitment strategies and initiatives, and managing relationships.
• Develops a strategy to engage various stakeholders in the admissions process (families, school counselors, educators, etc).
• Oversees the regional management of his/her direct reports—providing guidance for recruitment strategies and relationship management with secondary school constituents and the review of applications and decisions.
• Represents JHU Admissions in public events and information sessions.
• Works collaboratively across teams and with other offices at JHU (e.g. Marketing, Operations, Visitors Center, Financial Aid, etc.).

Skills

Staff management

Recruitment

Communication

Budgeting

Public speaking

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

The Johns Hopkins University is seeking an Associate Director of Admissions, Athletics (Undergraduate Admissions) to balance recruiting student-athletes with managing a regional territory and leading admissions staff.

You will partner with the Director of Admissions to develop and implement strategy, provide training, and represent JHU Admissions at public events while collaborating with Marketing, Operations, and Financial Aid teams. Requires travel, evenings, and weekends as needed.