Student Recruitment & Enrollment Manager

Amandla Charter School; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ACE Amandla Charter High School seeks a Student Recruitment & Enrollment Manager to lead year-round efforts attracting prospective students, developing feeder-school partnerships, and guiding families from interest to enrollment. This strategic, outward-facing role requires initiative, follow-through, and measurable outcomes.

The manager will implement an approved recruitment plan, maintain a reliable pipeline, monitor results, and collaborate with leadership to ensure compliant, equitable

Qualifications

• Minimum three years in student recruitment, admissions, or enrollment management.
• Proven ability to plan and execute recruitment initiatives with measurable results.
• Experience building external partnerships and managing follow-up relationships.
• Strong presentation, writing, interpersonal, organizational, and project-management skills.
• Ability to manage a recruitment pipeline, maintain data accuracy, and work independently.
• Proficiency with spreadsheets and CRM systems; availability for evening/weekend events.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute an annual, year-round recruitment and enrollment plan aligned with enrollment objectives.
• Maintain a recruitment calendar with feeder schools, events, and follow-up milestones.
• Identify priority outreach audiences using enrollment trends and feedback.
• Coordinate with Principal on messaging, visits, logistics, and enrollment procedures.
• Build partnerships with feeder schools, nonprofit organizations, and community groups.
• Represent ACE Amandla at fairs, community events, career awareness activities, and partner meetings.
• Respond to inquiries and implement a consistent follow-up process for prospective students and families.
• Ensure outreach and enrollment practices follow applicable laws and fair access.

Skills

Recruitment planning

Partnership development

Public speaking

Data management

CRM proficiency

Event coordination

US work authorization

Education

Bachelor's degree in education, communications, marketing, business, or related discipline

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

Student Recruitment & Enrollment Manager

Title:

Student Recruitment & Enrollment Manager

Student Recruitment & Enrollment Manager

Our Vision

ACE Amandla Charter High School is an inclusive community that prepares students for rewarding careers in architecture, construction, and engineering.

Our Mission

ACE Amandla Charter High School seeks to prepare students academically and socially with the skills needed for post-secondary success by providing high quality instruction, real world experiences, and comprehensive support in a professional environment.

Our Long Term Instructional Goals

Students at ACE Amandla are collaborative and critical problem solvers who actively participate in relevant project-based learning. We encourage students to be curious and reflective learners who are self-advocates and communicators.

Student Recruitment & Enrollment Manager Position Summary:

The Student Recruitment and Enrollment Manager leads the school's year-round effort to attract prospective students, develop and sustain feeder-school and community partnerships, and guide families from initial interest through enrollment. This is a strategic, outward-facing position with direct responsibility for implementing an approved recruitment plan, maintaining a reliable recruitment pipeline, monitoring results, and recommending improvements. Successful performance requires demonstrated recruitment experience, initiative, consistent follow-through, and measurable outcomes.

Student Recruitment & Enrollment Manager Key Responsibilities:

Strategy & Recruitment Planning

Develop and execute an annual, year-round recruitment and enrollment plan aligned with school leadership's enrollment objectives, priorities, and approved resources.

Maintain a recruitment calendar with feeder-school visits, information sessions, community events, follow-up milestones, and summer activities.

Identify priority outreach audiences and opportunities using enrollment trends, inquiry patterns, and feedback from students and families.

Coordinate with the Principal and relevant staff on recruitment messaging, school visits, event logistics, and enrollment procedures.

Build, nurture, and sustain relationships with elementary and middle schools, eighth-grade counselors, school administrators, and other referral partners.

Establish ongoing partnerships with nonprofit organizations, community centers, neighborhood groups, businesses, faith-based organizations, and other entities serving prospective students and families.

Maintain meaningful contact with partners throughout the year-not only during the primary application season-and document agreed next steps.

Represent ACE Amandla at school fairs, community events, career awareness activities, and partner meetings; create opportunities for prospective families to visit the school.

Prospective Student & Family Recruitment

Plan and deliver accurate, engaging presentations about ACE Amandla's academic program, career pathways, school culture, and postsecondary opportunities.

ACE Amandla Charter High School Proposed for review coordinate open houses, campus tours, student information sessions, and recruitment-related orientation activities.

Respond promptly to inquiries and implement a consistent, respectful follow-up process for prospective students and families.

Collaborate with designated enrollment staff to help families navigate the application and enrollment process while maintaining appropriate role boundaries.

Ensure outreach and enrollment practices follow applicable laws, authorizer requirements, and school policies, including fair and equitable access.

Pipeline Management & Communications

Maintain an accurate, secure prospect and partner tracking system covering inquiries, outreach contacts, events, applications, follow-ups, and enrollment outcomes.

Track movement through the recruitment pipeline and identify points at which prospective families disengage.

Work with school communications staff to develop and distribute recruitment materials and targeted outreach messages; recommend digital and social media campaigns.

Protect student and family information and follow applicable privacy and records-management requirements.

Monitoring, Reporting, and Improvement

Provide regular written progress reports to the Principal showing recruitment activities, partnership development, inquiries, applications, enrollment progress, obstacles, and next steps.

Analyze which outreach activities and partnerships produce meaningful prospective-family engagement and enrollment outcomes.

Adjust tactics in consultation with school leadership when recruitment goals are not on track. Prepare a year-end recruitment assessment with results, lessons learned, and recommendations for the next cycle.

Student Recruitment & Enrollment Manager Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

At least three years of demonstrated professional experience in student recruitment, admissions, enrollment management, educational outreach, or a closely related recruitment function.

Evidence of personally planning or implementing recruitment or outreach initiatives and achieving measurable results; candidates should be able to describe their role, targets, methods, and outcomes.

Demonstrated success establishing and sustaining external partnerships and managing follow-up relationships. Strong presentation, writing, interpersonal communication, organizational, and project-management skills.

Ability to manage a recruitment pipeline, maintain accurate data, interpret performance indicators, and work independently with accountability.

Working proficiency with spreadsheets, contact databases or CRM systems, and common digital communications tools.

Availability for occasional evening and weekend recruitment events and year-round community engagement.

Authorization to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in education, communications, marketing, business, or a related discipline.

Experience recruiting students in a K-12 school, charter school, or other educational setting.

Familiarity with Chicago-area schools, neighborhoods, and community organizations.

Experience engaging middle-school students and families and explaining career-focused educational pathways.

Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish.

Performance and Accountability

The Principal will approve written goals and review performance regularly. Performance measures should include both leading indicators (partnership engagement, outreach quality, inquiries, follow-up timeliness, and application progress) and enrollment outcomes. Targets should be realistic, documented, and reviewed in light of factors outside the Manager's control. Activity counts alone are not evidence of success.

Approved recruitment plan and calendar implemented on schedule.

Sustained, documented engagement with feeder schools and community partners.

Accurate prospect records and timely, consistent family follow-up.

Progress from inquiries to applications and completed enrollments, against agreed targets.

Clear, timely reports identifying results, challenges, corrective actions, and future opportunities.

Roll Boundaries and Collaboration

This role leads recruitment and enrollment outreach; it does not serve as the default owner of routine website maintenance, general social media administration, or permanent student records. The Manager coordinates with the employees responsible for those functions so that recruitment remains the primary focus.

ACE Amandla Charter School is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from all individuals regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation, and evaluate all candidates based on merit; we strongly encourage and seek qualified applications from underrepresented groups.