THE ARTS & COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY
JOB DESCRIPTION: ENROLLMENT DIRECTOR
The Enrollment Director is expected to reflect and participate in a progressive school culture of creativity safety inclusion acceptance and anti-bullying as well as model and uphold the school values of honesty communication problem-solving kindness respect for diversity participation and awareness in all interactions with school stakeholders including students staff caregivers and families and community partners.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- RECRUITMENT
- Create continually develop and implement engaging recruitment strategies and practices for attracting students at all grade levels to ACPA. This includes but is not limited to touring individual families partnering with community organizations representing ACPA at recruitment events or creating social media content.
- Work with partner organizations (other schools arts organizations community centers etc.) to identify prospective ACPA students for enrollment on an ongoing annual basis.
- Keeping in regular and periodic contact through various means with prospective students and families to encourage completion of enrollment applications and to ensure informed school choice decisions are made.
- Identifying creating and implementing new and diverse recruitment avenues outreach and marketing strategies.
- Organizing and implementing small group and individual school tour experiences for prospective students.
- Create opportunities and experiences for current students and ACPA alumni to participate in recruitment activities.
- Collaborate with middle and high school principals to ensure the tour process covers pertinent school information and has opportunities for prospective students and families to have programmatic questions answered.
- ENROLLMENT
- Collaborate with the Record Director to ensure proper enrollment collection of required paperwork and coordination of maximum enrollment at each grade level to include maintaining electronic data systems.
- Ensure that the enrollment process is engaging friendly and accommodating to a diverse recruitment pool.
- Ensuring that prospective students and caregivers complete all application items on a timely basis in the student SIS (PowerSchool).
- Ensuring that ACPAs enrollment and lottery policy is implemented.
- Maintaining an ongoing wait list of prospective students with complete applications.
- Ensuring each grade level is full on an ongoing basis.
- MARKETING
- In collaboration with the Communications and Marketing Director create recruitment and enrollment print and media content.
- Explore marketing avenues for targeted recruitment.
- Ensure that the mission vision and values of ACPA are reflected in marketing and recruitment materials.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- Associates or Bachelors Degree
- Strong organizational skills (data tracking spreadsheets enrollment management)
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to read and interpret data identify patterns and develop strategy that responds to the data;
- Confident public speaker and excellent written communicator;
- Superior organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail;
- Integrity sound judgment confidentiality and an ability to balance multiple perspectives;
- Ability to navigate a fast-paced environment demonstrate resilience and adjust course when necessary;
- Energy and enthusiasm to work simultaneously on multiple projects and manage competing priorities;
- Ability to model leadership lifelong learning healthy risk taking and resilience for faculty staff and students;
- Creative thinker and problem solver;
- Proficient with academic technology;
- High emotional intelligence strong cultural competence and a demonstrated belief in the value of a diverse and multicultural community;
- Inspiring leadership with the ability to build consensus and bring communities together.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- Salary commensurate with experience & education based on salary schedule with salary starting at $36980
- Additional bonuses and stipends available
- Medical Dental & Vision Insurance Benefits Package Available
- Participation in SERS Retirement Account
Required Experience:
Director