Assistant Director, Recruiting & Outreach

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Job Location
San Francisco - San Francisco, CA

Position Type
Full Time

Description

Job Title: Assistant Director, Recruiting & Outreach

Department: Strategic Enrollment Management

Reports to: Director of Recruiting

FLSA Status: Exempt

Summary: The Assistant Director, Recruiting & Outreach manages the outreach and lead generation for undergraduate and graduate programs for the university.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Develop creative ways to increase the company's brand and profile on campus through partnership/collaboration with professional, community and student organizations.
• Guides strategic outreach efforts to generate prospective student inquires.
• Develops and coordinates events to generate prospective learner inquires.
• Plans and attends a variety of enrollment recruitment functions throughout the Bay Area.
• Conducts research and outreach to identify potential enrollment partners.
• Builds and maintains records on contacts and communications with firms, associations, community colleges, and other targeted sources for new students.
• Displays strong commitment to performance tracking through metrics reporting, organization of data, and documentation of daily activities.
• Disseminates GGU program information among prospective students and/or their employers.
• Maintains currency in knowledge of GGU policies and how they support the recruitment plan, its execution, and its effectiveness.
• Lead and curate virtual events with the emergence of online/virtual fairs and webinars.
• Attend professional conferences, symposia, fairs meetings, etc. with the goal of successfully recruiting applicants to graduate and undergraduate programs.
• Support the enrollment and admissions teams when needed.

Qualifications, Education and/or Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years of Higher Ed experience or business development experience in a corporate environment.
• Must be results-oriented with a high degree of personal initiative, be very hands on, flexible and have a customer centric attitude. This includes follow up with prospective students from events.
• Must be a team player and have the ability to interact at all levels of the organization as well as connect with students.
• Be extremely flexible, proactive, highly organized and handle heavy work flow processing.
• Possess strong interpersonal skills including oral and written communication, including excellent presentation skills.
• Be able to multitask, shift priorities, and bring tasks to completion with minimal supervision.
• Must have experience tracking and reporting leads in a CRM.
• Must possess Microsoft Office skills and strong photoshop and graphic design background a plus.
• This position requires a great deal of travel (50% to 60% of time) within the Northern California service region (includes immediate Bay Area, Sacramento metro region, and Monterey County). The ideal candidate will provide transportation with institutional reimbursement based on miles. A valid driver's license is required.

Supplemental Information

Golden Gate University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The university has a strong commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion, and to maintaining working and learning environments that reinforces these practices. The university welcomes and encourages applications from women, minorities, people of color, veterans, persons with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQI community.