Assistant Director of Admissions at Queens University Of Charlotte – Charlotte, North Carolina

Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions

SUMMARY: This full-time position supports all efforts executed by the Office of Undergraduate Admission. This individual will serve on the Leadership Team in the Admissions Office and is vital to a high-performing enrollment team. Outstanding communication and organizational skills, along with a student-first mentality are essential to ensure successful enrollment and outreach efforts through recruitment travel, secondary school relations and programmatic responsibilities within the office.A primary function of this role is to attract, engage and enroll first-time, first-year degree seeking students from a designated territory. The Assistant Director will have high programmatic, supervisory, and travel responsibilities. This role requires strong working relationships with the leadership in the undergraduate admission office and various stakeholders throughout the university to plan and execute an effective enrollment strategy.

This position is exempt from provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and is not eligible to earn overtime pay or compensatory time off for additional hours worked. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Effectively communicate the mission of Queens University of Charlotte to prospective students, high school counselors, alumni, and pastors.
2. Represent Queens University of Charlotte in assigned geographic regions at high schools, college fairs and churches.
3. Exercise independent judgment to effectively develop a recruitment plan to enroll a specified number of students from a defined geographic territory.
4. Independently identify high schools, community colleges, and other organizations to visit during recruiting activities.
5. Plan and implement on-campus and off-campus admissions programs.
6. Conduct on-campus interviews with prospective students and their parents.
7. Follow up on inquiry files through phone calls and other appropriate correspondence.
8. Evaluate applicant files and sit on the admissions committee.
9. Plan and coordinate special projects that are a part of the overall strategic plan.
10. Work closely with the Office of Student Financial Services to provide students with accurate information and counseling concerning all aspects of the financial aid process.
11. Contribute diligently each year in the development and/or revision of the University’s admission standards.
12. Carry out other duties as assigned.

Non-Essential Duties:

• Other duties and special projects may be assigned to meet department and/or university needs.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills Required

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability and willingness to travel; valid driver’s license
• Demonstrated organizational and planning skills
• A high level of personal integrity and professionalism
• Familiarity with on-line and PC-based technology
• Desire to become involved in the campus community and available to work evening and weekend schedules.
• One to three years’ experience in a related educational position is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required

Application Process

Does this sound like a good fit? Submit the following:

1. A cover letter addressing the position qualifications and experience.
2. Current résumé
3. Salary expectations

Queens will continue to accept applications until the position is filled.

About Queens University of Charlotte

Located in the heart of the nation’s second fastest growing metropolitan area, Queens University of Charlotte leverages the city’s diverse and thriving environment as an extended classroom. Nationally recognized for undergraduate programs in international and interdisciplinary education, Queens blends the best of liberal arts learning with professional preparation and community engagement. Focused on supporting success for diverse learners, faculty build close and collaborative relationships with students and help them build intentional and individualized roadmaps for flourishing at Queens and beyond. At the graduate program level, the University offers innovative educational experiences that help learners advance professionally and retool for new opportunities. Our environs afford faculty myriad opportunities to advance their own professional growth and teaching and research interests by collaborating with vibrant industry, non-profit, and community organization sectors. Because of our history of innovation and our legacy of strong leadership, Queens is positioned to be among the new forerunners of American higher education. This is a defining moment for Queens. While other institutions are focused on sustaining and surviving, we are thinking much bigger. Institutions that understand what is needed and are willing to reimagine what is possible can position themselves to thrive and strengthen their market position after the pandemic with innovative approaches that are deeply connected to the world and its greatest challenges.

By 2030, Queens aspires to become the leading, private, national university of Charlotte with deep, meaningful, and reciprocal connections to the needs of our local community and economy; inventive and multidisciplinary academic programs that are connected to the world’s most pressing challenges and biggest areas of opportunity; a fully connected, integrated, and innovative set of experiences that support holistic wellness and wellbeing; a culture of continuous improvement and investment that enables faculty and staff to flourish and achieve their full potential; and a comprehensive approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion that begins on campus and radiates throughout the community.

Queens University of Charlotte aims to be a leading comprehensive university, distinguished by its commitment to transforming the lives of its students and enhancing the intellectual and cultural fabric of its community. Queens is a campus where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. The mission of Queens is to provide transformative educational experiences that nurture intellectual curiosity, promote global understanding, encourage ethical living, and prepare individuals for purposeful and fulfilling lives. To this end, the University recruits talented faculty, staff, and students from across the United States and around the world. Queens encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically minoritized communities. The University also invites applications from individuals who are prepared to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our increasingly diverse student body and to collaborate with colleagues to make Queens an equitable and inclusive place to live, learn, and work. Queens works to provide an accessible living, learning, and working environment for current and prospective faculty, staff, and students and visitors to our campus. If there are accommodations, we can provide to make your application process more accessible, please contact the Director of Human Resources (hr@queens.edu, 704-337-2297). The position duties and responsibilities listed above should be able to be completed with or without reasonable accommodations. HR works in partnership with employees to manage the workplace accommodations process.

Benefits

Queens offers comprehensive benefits to eligible employees, including: medical, dental and vision insurance, domestic partner benefits, a 403b retirement plan, with two options (pre-tax or post-tax (Roth) contributions) with a generous match, vacation and generous paid holidays, tuition remission and tuition exchange, Queens-paid life insurance, supplemental life insurance, dependent life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, disability insurance, flexible spending accounts (medical, dependent care, Health Savings Account), sick leave and long-term disability leave, paid parental leave, FMLA leave when eligible, reduced cost meals at Morrison Dining Hall, employee assistance program (EAP), free access to the Levine Center, wellness programs. In addition, employees may choose benefits such as pet insurance, critical care insurance and legal assistance.