Director of Recruitment

Texas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (TACRAO); Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Southern University is seeking a Director of Recruitment to lead TSU's comprehensive student enrollment strategy from identifying prospective students to deposit enrollment. The role provides end-to-end ownership of territory management, lead-funnel development, dual-credit and transfer-student recruitment, and directly supervises Admission Counselors with focus on development and performance.

Collaboration with Enrollment Marketing, Communications, and the Transfer Center is essential to

Responsibilities

• Owns end-to-end enrollment recruitment strategy from prospective-student identification through enrollment deposit.
• Supervises Admission Counselors and oversees their direction, development and performance.
• Collaborates with Enrollment Management Marketing and Communications to align strategies and outreach communications.
• Works with Transfer Center to develop outreach, build community college relationships, and support transfer students through enrollment.

Job description

The Director of Recruitment is a strategic leadership position responsible for developing, implementing, and managing TSU’s comprehensive student recruitment program. This position provides end-to-end ownership of the University’s enrollment recruitment strategy — from prospective-student identification through enrollment deposit — and serves as the Division’s primary architect of territory management, lead-funnel conversion, dual-credit pipeline development, and transfer-student recruitment. The Director directly supervises the Admission Counselors and is responsible for their day-to-day direction, professional development, and performance.

The Director of Recruitment reports to the Executive Director of Admissions and works in close partnership with the Enrollment Management Marketing and Communications Manager to ensure recruitment strategies and outreach communications are fully aligned. For transfer student recruitment, the Director collaborates directly with the Transfer Center to develop and coordinate outreach strategies, build community college relationships, and support prospective transfer students through the enrollment process. This position plays a direct role in TSU’s ability to grow enrollment, improve yield, and build the transfer pipeline that Texas’s performance-based funding framework is specifically designed to incentivize. The Director of Recruitment is a key member of the Division’s leadership team and is expected to represent TSU with professionalism and distinction in all internal and external settings.