[2025 - 2026] KIPP Change Academy Enrollment Manager (salary $40k - $50k)

Position Summary

KIPP Change Academy seeks a detail-oriented highly organized and mission-driven individuals for the role of Enrollment Manager. The Enrollment Manager role offers an opportunity for individuals to develop professionally and help expand the schools community. 

Youre a systems thinker and you like seeing processes built from the ground up. You enjoy working with data and have a strong knack for detail oriented organization and ability to create processes to manage large amounts of information. But in everything you do you put relationships first. You love building lasting relationships with students staff and families creating trust respect and accountability for the success of our students and our schools.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

What Youll Do

The Enrollment Manager is the student enrollment and recruitment expert at the school. As such this person is responsible for maintaining impeccable student information data assisting with seamless school operations and supporting excellent teaching and learning by providing enrollment data to inform decisions. Specifically the Enrollment Manager  works closely with the regional Operations Teams the School Operations Team and School Admin Team to ensure the schools day one enrollment targets are met and maintained.

Student Recruitment :

• Work with School Leader school operations team and regional team to drive more applications
• Execute student recruitment strategy
• Call families that have applied and process their applications for enrollment
• Create a database of prospective students
• Benchmark goals and timelines within the strategic plan
• Identify and visit preschools elementary middle schools and other youth service organizations in the area
• Speak to groups and individual students and family members to promote KIPP
• Organize school visits and open houses for prospective families and students to help build their familiarity with the school
• Contribute to the schools social media accounts for promotional content
• Build and maintain positive relationships with prospective families throughout the entire recruitment process from the first interaction through the time they start school

Enrollment: 

• Supports with school lottery event and family communication
• Manages the online enrollment procedures for families of admitted students
• Ensure students are enrolled into Infinite Campus and other KIPP NC student systems
• Maintain impeccable databases within Excel 

Student Information & Data: 

• Maintain the accuracy of student data throughout the year by updating student information in Infinite Campus and Schoolmint
• Participate in regional audits to ensure 100% accuracy of student data
• Self-audit student data to ensure regional audits produce no findings
• Support with  student information-specific data requests relating to compliance and reporting requirements for KIPP North Carolina (internal stakeholders grant reports research requests KIPP Foundation etc.)

Attendance: 

• Ensures the accuracy of students daily attendance as well as tardy truancy and early leave logs
• Prepares monthly attendance reports weekly attendance verifications and supports daily attendance submissions
• Trains and works with teachers to ensure attendance is completed timely and accurately each day
• Supports the goal of achieving a high ADA by communicating expectations of attendance to families managing letters and communication to repeat truancy offenders and supporting on attendance related incentives
• Work with the attendance team to support interventions as needed.

Student & Family Relations :

• Welcomes and attends to prospective families
• Upholds and maintains a positive nurturing achievement-oriented school culture
• Works with the Office team to ensure a well-maintained warm and welcoming main office
• Directs phone calls and guests warmly and professionally
• Assists with Coverages for operations team absences;  assists with special projects events and tasks as requested by Director of Operations.

Physical Mental and Environmental Demands

• Physical: Ability to navigate office and school campuses and hold meetings in different spaces. Must be able to walk sit and stand for long periods of time and actively converse and participate with others.
• Mental:  Stress of deadlines and normal work standards ability to analyze problems and generate alternatives memorize and recall objects and people.
• Environmental: Canvassing tabling and flyering in the field will require work outdoors monitor environmental conditions and take appropriate safety precautions for the pandemic environment. Occasional classroom/school environment and travel. 

Qualifications :

Required

• Associates degree or combination of experience and education
• Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Excel Skills
• A high level of detail orientation and organizational skills
• Data Management skills
• Strong Time Management
• Possess strong skills in building relationships
• Knowledge of KIPP North Carolina mission value and systems
• Outreach canvassing sales and communication experience preferred
• Experience working as part of a team in a professional setting
• Excited to learn and grow
• Results-oriented
• Welcoming to all communities
• Strong communication skills. Spoken and written language skills.
• Experience with Infinite Campus and/or SchoolMint preferred

Additional Information :

Additional Information

• Hours are M Th & F 7:30am - 3:45 Tu & W 7:30 - 5pm

• This is a 12 month role that works through the summer

KIPP Employee Mindsets

• All Means All: At KIPP NC we believe we serve the needs and do whatever it takes for every kid no matter their needs abilities or levels.

• See a Need Fill A Need: We believe that if theres a need at a school that to be a great team player we fill that need.  A teacher is absent  We cover their class during our prep.  A student is crying in the hallway  We comfort them whether or not theyre our student.

• Openness to Feedback:  We believe that the only way for us to improve as professionals is to be open to feedback and add new tools to our toolbox.  We stay after to practice teacher moves annotate lessons submit our lessons for feedback happily have admin in our classroom to observe and never miss a one-on-one with our coach to discuss our practice and learn how we can grow.

• Student Centered:  At the end of the day we always do whats best for kids.

Total Rewards - Compensation & Benefits

Salary is $40k - $50k annually based on educational attainment and years of relevant experience.

We currently offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Salaries paid semi-monthly throughout the year

• Healthcare (medical vision and dental) at no cost to individuals and deep discounts for dependents - Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina

• Enrollment in an optional 403b with employer match up to 6% of wages

• On-going professional development opportunities

• Generous time off:

• Paid Time Off  (5 days PTO & 6 days sick leave annually)

• Paid Time off for all major national holidays (including Fall Break Winter Break and Spring Break)

KIPP North Carolina is also committed to building the pipeline of the states most talented and effective teachers and leaders through competitive compensation integrated professional development led by coaches and mentors and resources they need to succeed all rooted in core values that articulate our collectively designed organizational beliefs:

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