Director of First-Year Admission
- Employer
- University of the Pacific
- Location
- Stockton
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- Administrative Jobs
- Institutional & Business Affairs, Admissions & Enrollment
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Director of First-Year Admission
Primary Purpose:
Reporting to the Dean of Undergraduate Admission, the Director of First-Year Admission has primary responsibility for creating and implementing a best-practice admission recruitment strategy that aligns with meeting the University's enrollment goals. The Director will provide leadership for the Office of Undergraduate Admission and will play an integral role across the institution, working in partnership with the Dean and the Vice President for Strategic Enrollment in recommending and determining admission strategies, tactics, practices, and policies to realize Pacific's enrollment goals. The Director will help propel the University forward to achieve continuous improvement in meeting the University's undergraduate enrollment goals of students while maintaining its commitment to diversity and student success.
Essential Functions:
While building cooperation with various partnerships across University of the Pacific and high school counselor and community-based organizations communities, the Director will develop and execute a recruitment plan that meets annual goals and positions the University for on-going enrollment success. The Director will foster a team environment that sets clear expectations and is cohesive, imaginative, energetic, and results-oriented. The Director will work to develop a culture of talent management, providing the support to help the admission staff grow and develop as a team and individuals.
Primary duties and responsibilities:
- Support the Vice President for Strategic Enrollment, Dean of Undergraduate Admission, Executive Director for Financial Aid and individual school/college deans to collaboratively develop admission projections, incoming class profiles, and identify school/college implications for enrollment.
- Build a highly effective and efficient, results-focused territory management program in high schools. Lead the development of and use of reporting tools to continually assess and achieve enrollment goals.
- Incorporate systems solutions and data analytics into all recruitment programs to create efficiencies and on-going improvements.
- Work toward increasing diversity in all forms including the geographic, socio-economic, and racial diversity of the undergraduate student population.
- Effectively manage teams to build upon the strengths of individuals, develop strategies to overcome deficiencies, set clear expectations and provide appropriate training and coaching to meet expectations.
- In collaboration with the Vice President for Strategic Enrollment, Dean of Undergraduate Admission, Office of Marketing and Communications, and external enrollment partners direct marketing, recruiting, and outreach to prospective undergraduate students, their families and high schools.
- Work collaboratively and strategically with the Executive Director of Financial Aid to meet enrollment and revenue goals for the undergraduate population.
- In collaboration with the Dean, serve as the point-of-contact for undergraduate admission-related inquiries and concerns.
- Work collaboratively with the Director of Campus Visits and Events, regional recruitment leadership, and Director of Transfer Admission.
- Work to meet program-specific targets.
- Commitment to providing professional development opportunities for team members.
- Fulfill other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- At least five (5) years of experience in a college admission or an enrollment management role
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrate mastery of running a productive and results-driven admissions operations.
- Demonstrate quantitative, qualitative, and analytical problem-solving and decision- making skills.
- Master’s degree is preferred.
- Experience working with enterprise-wide student information systems.
- Prior experience with Slate CRM.
- Attention to detail.
Skills/Knowledge and Expertise:
- Vision and leadership: ability to shape and deliver Pacific’s future student body within the context of University goals; ability to build and motivate a team; affinity for developing complex recruitment strategies.
- Strong analytical capacity: the ability to produce plans and budgets that link expenditures to outcomes, to assess the effectiveness of how recruitment funds are employed, to produce regular and systematic comparative reports that detail progress toward enrollment goals.
- An ability to balance strategic plans and tactical detail: evidence of ability to focus and lead an organization to achieve the elements of a strategic plan, and to continuously refine the organizational plan, structure, and operations as the plan evolves.
- Demonstrate ability in creative marketing: proven success in innovative thinking; excellent execution of both complex and routine marketing strategies; a record of taking programs to new levels of success; ability to think creatively, and to leverage technology.
- Superior communication skills: dynamic speaking and strong writing skills to communicate effectively with all constituencies, including prospective students and their families, the admission staff, faculty and staff, alumni, trustees, and the public.
Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative but not definitive of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Duties require frequent sitting, repetitive use of hands and wrists while using computer keyboard and phone. Occasional walking, standing and simple grasping. Infrequent climbing stairs, bending, stooping, kneeling or reaching. May be requested to lift up to 25lbs.
Work Environment/Work Week/Travel:
Work is performed in normal office environment. Work may be required during non-business hours and weekends. Occasional travel both local and overnight.
Valid driver’s license required. Incumbent must also be able to meet the University’s fleet rules and be eligible to drive for University business. The University and its insurance carrier reserve the right to exclude applicants based on their driving record.
Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience, exempt
Background Check Statement:
All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment are required to execute a release and authorization for a background screening.
To apply, visit https://pacific.peopleadmin.com/postings/19889
University of the Pacific is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer dedicated to workforce diversity. In compliance with applicable law and its own policy, Pacific is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty and staff and does not discriminate in its hiring of faculty and staff, or in the provision of its employment benefits to its faculty and staff on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sex/gender, marital status, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, medical condition, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, or mental or physical disability.
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Organization
Since its founding in 1851 as California’s first chartered university, University of the Pacific has been transforming the lives of students, enhancing the vitality of its surrounding communities and bringing a pioneering spirit to how we educate and serve.
Pacific is recognized for high-quality academic programs, dedicated faculty mentors and excellent professional preparation built on a strong liberal arts foundation. The university is consistently ranked among the top national universities by U.S. News and World Report and Princeton Review.
University of the Pacific is a dynamic three-city university with campuses in Stockton, Sacramento and San Francisco. With a presence in these three very different and uniquely California cities, Pacific enjoys a truly distinctive footprint in California and the West.
Sacramento
Pacific’s beautiful, tree-lined campus in Sacramento provides a focused learning environment with ties to the power and influence of one of the nation’s most influential capital cities. Complementing the legal studies offered at the McGeorge School of Law, new academic offerings are helping address critical issues at the intersection of law, policy, business and health.
San Francisco
Pacific’s high-tech San Francisco campus is strategically situated the heart of one of the world’s most exciting cities. It is home to one of the premier dental schools in the nation, the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, as well as high-quality programs in health, technology, and arts and culture.
Stockton
Pacific’s Stockton campus in the heart of the California Delta country is renowned for its idyllic beauty, breadth of outstanding academic programs, vibrant and supportive campus life, and close, dedicated teaching relationships with students. Serving more than 5,000 students, the campus is home to the liberal arts College of the Pacific, a conservatory of music, and schools of business, education, engineering, international studies, and pharmacy and health sciences.
Beyond Our Gates
Pacific students, faculty, and staff are passionate about enriching their communities and serving those in need. Under faculty guidance, students provide dental care and health services and information to the underserved, legal clinics for those in need, and literacy and educational enrichment programs for local schoolchildren. Students, faculty and staff contribute tens of thousands of hours of volunteer service each year. The Center for Professional and Continuing Education offers degree completion, continuing education, workforce training and lifelong learning programs. Pacific centers and institutes work toward solutions to local and regional issues through community partnerships, education and research.
The Pacific Tigers compete in NCAA Division I athletics primarily as a member of the West Coast Conference. Fielding seven men’s teams and eleven women’s teams, the Pacific Tigers continue to add individual and team successes to an already outstanding performance record, including more than 30 conference championships and more than 60 NCAA tournament appearances.
Pacific offers more than 80 programs of study leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees, as well as accelerated programs in business, education, law, engineering and the health sciences. Total enrollment at all three campuses is more than 6,000 students.
With a focus on teaching, close faculty-student interaction, academic excellence and real-world learning, Pacific prepares individuals for lifelong personal and professional success.
Learn more at Pacific.edu.
Diversity Profile
The University of the Pacific community - including students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni - believes that diversity and inclusion are essential to the fulfillment of our institutional mission. We value inclusiveness in learning, curricular and co-curricular programming, campus climate, recruitment, admissions, hiring and retention. We remain deeply committed to promoting and maintaining a civil community that facilitates opportunities for shared understanding and expression of individual and collective truths. Moreover, we resolve to maintain a community that is respectful of all persons despite differences in age, citizenship, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, geographic origin, language, marital status, nationality, philosophical beliefs, race, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.
The University of the Pacific community - including students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni - believes that diversity and inclusion are essential to the fulfillment of our institutional mission. We value inclusiveness in learning, curricular and co-curricular programming, campus climate, recruitment, admissions, hiring and retention.
We remain deeply committed to promoting and maintaining a civil community that facilitates opportunities for shared understanding and expression of individual and collective truths. Moreover, we resolve to maintain a community that is respectful of all persons despite differences in age, citizenship, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, geographic origin, language, marital status, nationality, philosophical beliefs, race, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.
We are committed to all members of the Pacific community becoming competent and ethical citizen leaders able to interact effectively and ethically in an increasingly multicultural society and global economy. This transformative process is accomplished through our distinctive integration of liberal arts and professional education promoting innovation, open discourse and dialogue, leadership development, experiential learning and self-reflection.
Multicultural Affairs is dedicated to the creation and sustainability of a culturally inclusive community across and within the boundaries of culture, sexual orientation, gender, and other social identities. In service to and in partnership with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other friends, Multicultural Affairs offers programs, services, and sponsorships such as cultural heritage month observances, diversity leadership retreats, and intercultural trainings that meet the educational and cultural needs of all members of the Pacific community.
- Website
- http://www.pacific.edu/
- Telephone
- 209.946.2011
- Location
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3601 Pacific Avenue
Stockton
CA
95211
US
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