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Meredith College, a private, residential women’s college and coeducational graduate school in Raleigh, North Carolina, is seeking a dynamic and visionary Director of Graduate Admission. This professional will be a key player in centralizing marketing and recruitment efforts across approximately 12 graduate and post-bac certificate programs. They will develop strategies to attract and enroll appropriate students for each program. Reporting to the Vice President for Enrollment Management, the director will build then lead a team of professional recruiters for graduate programs. The director will work innovatively and collaboratively with faculty, program directors, and deans along with the college’s marketing team. They should have experience in leading a dynamic recruitment program and its operations, with a dedication to providing continued quality improvement.

Responsibilities and Priorities:
As the leader of the College’s efforts to recruit graduate and post-bac students, the director will focus on the following responsibilities and priorities.

Strategic Leadership
- Serve as an integral member of the Enrollment Management Team to strategically guide Meredith College’s overall student enrollment efforts.
- Exhibit a commitment to the institutional mission, a genuine passion for women’s educational experiences, and the ability to enthusiastically share the transformational power of a Meredith education with interested and well-qualified students.
- Foster a culture of excellence while appropriately leveraging data and sharing information with all constituents.
- Collect and analyze data to inform and refine efforts that identify, recruit, enroll, and retain a diverse student body.
- Strengthen efforts to meet enrollment goals for each graduate and post-bac certificate program.
- Educate the Meredith community regarding best practices, changing demographics, and the competitive landscape of recruiting and enrolling students.
- Help evaluate and select third-party partners and to assist with meeting enrollment goals for graduate programs.

Partnership and Collaboration
- Cultivate a strong sense of community by building bridges and fostering relationships of trust; serve on committees as needed, and serve as a liaison with varying campus constituencies across the College to support the enrollment and retention of graduate students.
- Maintain and manage strong relationships with faculty, program directors and deans to effectively support marketing and recruitment efforts as well as efficient processes for reviewing applications.
- Partner with the director of recruitment marketing and the college’s in-house marketing team on marketing communications strategies that will support attracting and recruiting graduate and post-bac students.

Supervision
- As graduate program recruitment evolves, the director will help build a team of professionals to represent various programs and recruit to goals.
- Provide training and professional development to the team, evaluate the team’s performance and serve as an advocate, resource, and mentor.
- Lead the team in efforts to evaluate, implement, and leverage technology to innovate, increase operational efficiency, and meet the enrollment goals for graduate programs at Meredith College.

Qualifications, Skills, Abilities, and Characteristics:

The successful candidate must have outstanding interpersonal skills and experience, expertise in the administration and management of recruitment programs, demonstrated proficiencies in information technology appropriate to admissions offices, and a commitment to the core values of a private women’s college.

Successful candidates will have a minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in post-secondary admissions or enrollment, including management and supervisory roles, and preference will be given to candidates with relevant advanced degrees.

The director should demonstrate the following skills, abilities, and characteristics:
- Experience supervising, managing, developing, and motivating a diverse team.
- Appreciation and support of the value of obtaining graduate certificates or degrees. Able to articulate this value when recruiting students.
- A proven ability to develop rapport and work collaboratively with the leadership and faculty to bring forward the best of Meredith in the shared effort of recruiting and retaining students.
- Ability to create, maintain and operate within a well-defined fiscal budget that adheres to division-wide goals and policies.
- Strong verbal, written, interpersonal, and collaborative skills; excellent communication skills with a wide range of audiences including students, parents, and working professionals. The ability to adeptly manage both external and internal relationships.
- Knowledge of current trends and issues in the state, regional and national landscape of graduate admission and financial aid.
- Utilization of technology in admission work, including a knowledge of and experience maximizing a CRM (familiarity with Slate is preferred); ability to analyze and use data to inform and implement recruitment and admissions strategies and tactics that meet targeted enrollment goals and attract a talented and diverse student body.
- Willingness to foster a culture of best practices within the admission office, especially in appropriately leveraging data and transparently sharing information within the campus community.
- Familiar and comfortable serving students with a highly personalized approach.

Review of applications will begin on October 24th. All completed applications received by that date will be given full consideration. Applications will continue until the position is filled.

Required Documents:
- Cover Letter
- Resume / CV