Sr. Assistant Director, Recruitment (Undergraduate Admissions)

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 57,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins University is seeking a Sr. Assistant Director, Recruitment within Undergraduate Admissions.

The role balances recruitment leadership and management of a regional territory with cross-office program leadership, aiming to grow applications and improve the quality of the incoming class. The successful candidate will guide off-campus recruitment, build high-impact programming, and lead staff training while leveraging data to shape strategy and execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Five years of progressively responsible related experience.
• Travel extensively and work nights/weekends as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic direction, logistics, timelines, planning and evaluation of processes in your focus area.
• Oversee major programs and connect them to broader office strategies.
• Develop partnerships with counselors, schools and organizations; assess and report on outcomes.
• Use data analytics to evaluate recruitment strategies and inform decisions.
• Supervise Admissions Officers and support staff development and training.

Skills

Event management

Communication

Budgeting

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

We are seeking a Sr. Assistant Director, Recruitment who will balance the core admission officer responsibilities of Recruitment and Management of a regional territory while also providing leadership over a key programmatic or process area(s) across the office.

The Senior Assistant Director sits on the management team and partners with office leadership to develop goals ensuring academic quality and various perspectives in the incoming class. This position will provide leadership for our off-campus recruitment, helping to develop high impact programming and increasing the capacity and volume of prospective students engaging with our admissions staff.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities as a Senior Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions

• Provides leadership over a key business area within the undergraduate admissions office: responsible for the strategic direction, logistics, timelines, planning, and evaluation of processes and policies that fall within their designated area of focus.
• Provides oversight of major programs and/processes and connects them to strategies in other areas of the office to work towards institutional goals.
• Builds relationships with all relevant third parties (within undergraduate admissions as well as across the university) to collaborate effectively towards goals.
• Works with the management team to develop a strategic vision for their respective areas of focus.
• Develops an evaluative structure for effective programming in their designated area of focus: work with office leadership to create tools and/or an analysis plan to analyze and improve work in their strategic areas.
• Builds short- and long-term plans to set goals, implement new strategies, and evaluate them over time.
• Identify future areas for innovation/growth within their area.
• Oversees any staff training content around their area of focus.
• Utilizes data to inform our overarching strategy and approach.
• Manages a regional territory—reads applications, plans recruitment strategies and initiatives, and manages constituent relationships.

• Represents JHU Admissions in public events and information sessions.

Key Responsibilities as a Senior Assistant Director, Recruitment

Strategic Leadership

• Directly support the Director of Recruitment for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions in developing and executing a comprehensive recruitment strategy.
• Assist the recruitment team in implementing innovative and data-driven strategies in the off-campus and virtual recruitment space.
• Work closely with senior leadership to identify staffing and logistical needs.
• Collaborate with office leaders, including fellow Senior Assistant Admissions Officers, across other areas of the work to meet institutional goals.

Partnership Development

• Build relationships and pipelines with key stakeholders, including counselors, CBOs, and professional organizations on behalf of the institution.
• Assess the success of current partnerships and present to the Director of Recruitment.
• Identify new partnership opportunities and propose them to institutional leadership.

Data Analysis

• Utilize recruitment metrics and data analytics to evaluate the effectiveness of current recruitment strategies.
• Complete both qualitative and quantitative assessments of recruitment approaches.

Staff Supervision

• Supervise Admissions Officers and help support their growth and development.
• Work with the management team to support the growth of staff members across the office.

Staff Training

• Oversee staff training relating to recruitment.
• Research best practices, trends, and technology to ensure the team is utilizing the most effective tools and approaches.

Special Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively with prospective students, parents, secondary school counselors, faculty, and other university partners, as well as the ability to represent Johns Hopkins University to the public.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, independently, and as part of a team.
• Strong event management and development skills.
• Demonstrates the utmost level of professionalism with both internal and external constituents.
• Possesses strong cultural competency and understanding of student educational experiences coming from diverse backgrounds.
• Knowledge of standard office software applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Ability to build, propose, and maintain a budget.

Additional requirements

• Ability to travel extensively and work nights and weekends as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Five years of progressively responsible related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a college or university admissions officer preferred, which would include recruitment and application review.

Classified Title: Sr. Admissions Officer

Job Posting Title (Working Title): Sr. Assistant Director, Recruitment (Undergraduate Admissions)

Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MD

Starting Salary Range: $57,195 - $100,040 Annually ($80K - $90K targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)

Employee group: Full Time

Schedule: 8:30 - 5:00 Monday-Friday, some nights and weekends for events, recruitment, evaluation and selection, etc.

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Hybrid/Homewood Campus

Department name: Undergraduate Admissions

Personnel area: University Student Services

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition of employment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employees who provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care or clinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination or possess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meet this requirement may result in termination of employment.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.

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