Admissions Counselor III ( Culture Outreach Coordinator)
Title: Admissions Counselor III ( Culture Outreach Coordinator)
Salary Range: $3,490 - $4,363 per month
Contract Term Length: 12 Months
Standard Hours: 37.5
Work Location: On-Site
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
College:
Campus Location: Bluegrass C&TC - Newtown Pike Campus
Department: Public Relations, Marketing, and Admissions
Total Rewards
offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:
- Exceptional health care, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
- Tuition discounts and waivers
- 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
- Vacation/Sick Time
- Work-Life Balance
- 9.5 Paid Holidays
- 2 Weeks of Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
- Employee Assistance Program
Job Summary
Under the supervision of the Associate Vice President of Public Relations, Marketing, and Admissions (PMA), the Culture Outreach Coordinator will serve on the Recruitment Team and will implement educational recruitment efforts that will influence enrollment. The coordinator will provide recruitment and outreach activities aimed at creating opportunities for this historically underrepresented population to have equal access to and participate in educational programs. The coordinator plans and implements non-traditional educational outreach activities at schools, churches, community centers, adult education sites and on campus. The coordinator must stay up-to-date and aware of social, political, and educational trends and challenges faced by prospective and current students.
Job Duties:
- Provide culturally responsive educational recruitment and awareness activities for the African American Community.
- Works with community organizations, middle and high schools, churches, libraries, community centers, adult education centers, etc. to provide BCTC information, educational workshops, and programs to assist prospective students with academic and career goals settings, admissions processes, scholarship searches, and financial aid applications.
- Provide one on one and family-based college admissions counseling, financial aid, and scholarship counseling for prospective students.
- Participate in the development of recruitment strategies for the African American Community as designed in the Strategic Enrollment Plan (SEM). Initiates, plans, and executes programs and activities at all BCTC campuses.
- Evaluates program effectiveness, assesses outcomes, and develops improved programming to achieve goals and objectives.
- Promote and recruit prospective students for the Academic Support Program Inspiring to Reach Excellence (ASPIRE) Scholarship program
- Work in partnership with the Director of African American Student Initiatives as it relates to the ASPIRE Scholars, A Few Good Men, Becoming HER and other initiatives targeting this student population.
- Collaborate with the Director of African American Student Initiatives with grant searches and grant writing to fund programs, professional development opportunities, scholarships, and projects.
- Utilize the Customer Relationship Management System (CRM) to enter all prospective student data for tracking and monitoring purposes to increase the yield rate for this population of students.
- Ensure that the data is utilized for the development and refinement of effective recruiting strategies and tactics.
- Manage stop out reports and develop campaigns to reengage students
- Develop and maintain a Communication Plan utilizing the CRM, Signal Vine, and other inter-office platforms for clear and direct messaging to convert each student via the recruitment funnel.
- Facilitate individual and group tours for the URM Community at the Lexington Campuses and participate as an active member of the Recruitment Team.
- Refer students to the appropriate Student Services areas (Counseling, Student Accessibility Services, Tutoring, Financial Aid, Advising, Career Services, etc.)
- Serve as a lead for recruitment initiatives such as Spotlight Day, BCTC to You and assist with executing programs such as HEART to HEART and orientations for this target audience.
- Supports and/or provides college preparation programs and summer enrichment activities to address student readiness, recruitment, and retention to higher education.
- Refer and/or assist students with navigating both college services and community services and resources when appropriate. These referrals include interventions to address mental health issues, disability support services, food or housing insecurities, financial aid assistance, and more. Assist in scheduling appointments with these resources when necessary.
- Serve on Committees as assigned by the President and AVP of PMA
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and 4 years of Relevant Experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and 6 years of Relevant Experience
Additional Skills Requested:
- Great public speaking and written communication skills
- Graphic design knowledge and skills of principles combined with technology to create flyers, print materials, and presentations
- Willingness to work non-traditional schedules with some events and outreach programs during the evening and on weekends.
- Understanding of financial aid processes
- Extensive computer skills (i.e., MS Windows Suite)
