Undergraduate Admissions Counselor
- Employer
- Wheaton College Illinois
- Location
- Wheaton, IL
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- Administrative Jobs
- Institutional & Business Affairs, Admissions & Enrollment
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Job Id: 679 # of Openings: 1 UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS - ADMISSIONS COUNSELOR
Job Overview
Responsible for areas relating to the recruitment, evaluation, and enrollment of undergraduate liberal arts students. The ideal candidate will possess excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills. We seek candidates with a strong sense of initiative, the capacity to manage multiple responsibilities concurrently, and who are eager to achieve team and individual goals. The Admissions Counselor reports to the Recruitment Team Manager.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Regularly communicates by phone and email with prospective students and their parents from initial inquiry through enrollment. Provides timely information about Wheaton College and answer inquiries about application procedures, college programs, credentials, status of applications, and application decisions.
- Recruits prospects, including those from historically underrepresented populations and backgrounds, from assigned application segment to apply, visit, and enroll at Wheaton College; provide increased personal contact.
- Conducts information sessions, campus tours, and interviews (on-campus, off-campus, and via telephone).
- Represents Wheaton at college fairs, high schools, and other recruitment events, as directed.
- Plans and implements out of state recruitment travel, as assigned.
- Reads, summarizes, and provides initial evaluation of liberal arts applications within assigned segment of the applicant pool.
- Makes initial recommendations to the Director of Admissions regarding the admissibility of applicants within assigned segment of applicant pool. Actively participates in the decision-making process of the Admissions Committee.
- Provides input to the Assistant Director on the admissions process, suggesting ways to improve recruitment efforts.
- Cultivates strategic connections with churches, high schools, and guidance counselors in designated region.
This job description is intended to represent key areas of responsibilities; specific assignments may vary from time to time, and other duties may be assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree. Familiarity with Wheaton College and Christian liberal arts education preferred
- Strong communication, decision-making and organization skills
- Self-motivated, ability to work with details, ability to manage many tasks
- Ability to travel locally, regionally, and nationally as needed. Approximately 3-5 weeks of travel per academic year
- Valid driver's license and clean driving record
- Previous work experience preferred, but not required
Physical Requirements
The employee is regularly required to sit, talk, or hear; frequently required to use repetitive hand motion, handle or feel, and to stand, walk, reach, bend or lift up to 25 pounds.
FLSA Status – Exempt
As a Christ-centered community, Wheaton College faculty and staff must affirm the College’s Statement of Faith as expressing their own theological convictions and agree to live by the moral standards in Wheaton’s Community Covenant, modeling these commitments for the Christian formation of our students. Wheaton College faculty and staff also support the Christ-Centered Diversity Commitment which highlights our desire to treat all individuals as equal image-bearers of Jesus Christ through diversity, inclusion, justice and unity. Updated: June 2021
Organization
Wheaton College is an explicitly Christian, academically rigorous, fully residential liberal arts college and graduate school located in the Chicago area. Established in 1860 in Wheaton, Illinois, Wheaton is guided by its original mission to provide excellence in Christian higher education, and offers more than 40 undergraduate degrees in the liberal arts and sciences, and 18 graduate degrees in various fields of study.
Located 25 miles west of Chicago, IL, Wheaton College, founded in 1860, is a four year private, residential, academically rigorous interdenominational Christian liberal arts College that “serves Jesus Christ and advances His Kingdom through excellence in liberal arts and graduate programs that educate the whole person to build the church and benefit society worldwide.”
Employee Benefits: https://www.wheaton.edu/about-wheaton/offices-and-services/human-resources/ or https://www.wheaton.edu/about-wheaton/offices-and-services/human-resources/benefits-overview/
Life in Wheaton, IL: http://www.wheaton.il.us/
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