Enrollment & Community Partnerships Director

Martha Obryan Center; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Explore! Community School, an educational outreach of Martha O’Bryan Center, seeks a strategic Director of Enrollment and Community Engagement to lead enrollment, recruitment, marketing, and family engagement in Nashville.

The role emphasizes building long-term partnerships with families, schools, and community organizations while guiding staff and coordinating cross-functional initiatives. The Director will design multi-year enrollment strategies, oversee attendance initiatives, and ensure

Qualifications

• At least five years of progressively responsible experience in student recruitment, enrollment, community engagement, marketing, sales, school operations, or a related field; school-based student recruitment experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success developing recruitment pipelines, engaging prospective families, and meeting enrollment or comparable growth targets.
• Experience managing and developing staff, leading cross-functional work, and holding teams accountable for results.
• Excellent public speaking, written communication, and interpersonal skills; able to represent the school with warmth, professionalism, and credibility.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience preferred; multilingual ability is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a multi-year enrollment and school-based student recruitment strategy that meets or exceeds annual targets across all grade levels.
• Build a reliable pipeline of prospective students through partnerships with Pre-K programs, Head Start providers, daycares, schools, neighborhood organizations, and other community-based partners.
• Own the prospective-family journey from initial awareness and inquiry through application, enrollment, onboarding, and retention, ensuring responsive and welcoming communication at every stage.
• Represent Explore! at community events, school fairs, school-choice fairs, information sessions, tours, and other recruitment opportunities; serve as a compelling and credible face of the school.
• Lead recruitment marketing and communications, including campaign planning, collateral, digital advertising, social media, website content, and coordination with external consultants or vendors.
• Apply relevant sales and relationship-management practices - such as pipeline development, lead follow-up, conversion tracking, and audience segmentation to strengthen enrollment outcomes.
• Use enrollment, inquiry, conversion, and retention data to identify opportunities, forecast progress, evaluate return on effort, and adjust strategy.
• Coordinate annual intent-to-return efforts and targeted family follow-up to improve student retention.

Skills

Public speaking

Relationship-building

Project management

Leadership

Enrollment strategy

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience

Job description

Explore! Community School, an educational outreach of Martha O’Bryan Center, seeks a strategic Director of Enrollment and Community Engagement to lead enrollment, recruitment, marketing, and family engagement in Nashville.

The role emphasizes building long-term partnerships with families, schools, and community organizations while guiding staff and coordinating cross-functional initiatives. The Director will design multi-year enrollment strategies, oversee attendance initiatives, and ensure