The assistant director of student recruitment \& outreach serves as the College of Education \& Human Services (CEHS) liaison between university offices and the academic departments within CEHS to coordinate and lead prospective student initiatives. This position also provides leadership for the EHS Residential College (EHSRC), a living/learning community for students interested in academic programs housed in CEHS. The assistant director will oversee the creation and implementation of recruitment events for prospective students including freshmen, transfer, and graduate students. Additionally, this position will actively participate on college and university committees as it relates to recruitment, college onboarding, and living/learning communities. The assistant director works with all CEHS departments, as well as the CEHS Advising team, staying abreast of curricular changes. This position reports to a member of the Dean’s Leadership Team.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree.
Demonstrated leadership experience related to working directly with young adults, or students.
Demonstrated experience with creating and implementing events and programs.
Possession of a valid driver’s license.
Demonstrated communication and presentation skills using a variety of formats.
Demonstrated organizational skills, including the ability to plan, establish priorities, and handle multiple tasks and projects.
Availability to work occasional evenings and weekends as needed.
Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise independent judgement.
Demonstrated positive interpersonal skills.
Proven ability to relate and work well with faculty, administrators, staff, students, families, volunteers, and the general public.
Willingness to travel locally and regionally as needed.
Ability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in a program offered by the College of Education \& Human Services, or a closely related field.
One year of direct recruitment experience and/or experience planning and implementing major events.
Demonstrated experience working with residential programs at higher education institutions.
Demonstrated post\-degree work experience in a higher education environment.
Understanding of the student enrollment and recruitment process, including conceptualizing, planning, and implementing admissions, recruitment, evaluation, technical, and yield activities.
Familiarity with SLATE or other forms of customer relationship management (CRM) software.
Duties \& Responsibilities
Coordinates with departments/centers to develop, staff, and implement college\-wide and department specific recruitment events.
Provides leadership for the EHS Residential College (EHSRC), including setting long\-term strategic goals for this living/learning community related to recruitment and retention of undergraduate students and developing and implementing initiatives to achieve the program’s goals.
Provides coordination within CEHS for university\-sponsored recruitment events.
Develops and maintains relationships with external partners such as high school counselors and community college contacts.
Coordinates with internal and external partners in presenting to various prospective student audiences including transfer students and incoming freshman.
Coordinates recruitment communications between CEHS and university offices.
Works closely with Advising and Admissions staff to ensure accurate presentation of academic programs, admission requirements, and financial aid/scholarship information.
Collaborates with the dean’s office staff to ensure that CEHS web site information for prospective students, the CEHS Residential College, and CEHS Student Ambassadors is current.
Represents CEHS on the Undergraduate Admissions Office’s College Liaison Committee.
Supports academic departments with graduate student recruitment initiatives.
Engages with CEHS leadership and chairs of academic departments to plan and implement enrollment and recruitment goals/initiatives.
Provides recruitment and yield data to CEHS leadership.
Collaborates with the CEHS director of advising student services and academic advisors as needed to support academic planning and summer orientation.
Manages the CEHS Student Ambassador program including selection, training, and oversight of Ambassadors.
Performs other duties as needed to support CEHS prospective student\-focused initiatives.
Supervision Exercised
None.
Message to Applicants
Central Michigan University is dedicated to fostering an environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We are especially interested in highly qualified candidates who will advance and promote CMU’s mission, vision, and leadership standards.
You must submit an on\-line application in order to be considered as an applicant for this position.
Cover letters may be addressed to the Hiring Committee.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit letters of recommendation. If you wish to include recommendation letter(s) that are not required, please utilize the Recommendation Letters upload field.
Employee Group Professional \& Administrative \-Salary
Staff Pay Level
Pay Range $47,000 \- $57,000 per year
Division Academic Affairs
Department College of Education \& Human Services
Position Status Regular
Position End Date
Employment Status Full\-Time
FTE 1\.00
Position Type 12 month
Weekly Work Schedule Mon\-Fri, 8:00 a.m. \- 5:00 p.m. / weekends and evenings as needed
Location Mount Pleasant, MI
About the Department
About CMU
Central Michigan University has a more than 125\-year legacy of preparing students to become leaders and changemakers in their communities and in their personal and professional lives.
We serve nearly 15,500 students on our Mount Pleasant campus, in satellite locations around the state and throughout the country, and through flexible online programs. Many of our approximately 300 undergraduate, master’s, specialist and doctoral programs in the arts, media, business, education, human services, health professions, liberal arts, social sciences, medicine, science and engineering are nationally ranked for excellence.
CMU leads the nation in leadership development programming through our Sarah R. Opperman Leadership Institute, and we are proud to be among only 5% of U.S. universities in the top two Carnegie research classifications. Our faculty work with graduate and undergraduate students in areas such as Great Lakes research, medical innovation, engineering technology and more.
Central is home to 17 men’s and women’s Division 1 sports including football, basketball, gymnastics, baseball, wrestling and more. Our student\-athletes achieve great success in competition and in the classroom, capturing Mid\-American Conference championships and maintaining an average cumulative GPA of 3\.17\.
CMU is located in Mount Pleasant, a community that blends the best of small\-town living with big\-city amenities. It’s part of the culturally varied and vibrant Great Lakes Bay Region that also includes Saginaw, Bay City, Midland and the state’s largest Native American community, centered on the Saginaw Chippewa Isabella Reservation in Mount Pleasant.
Area residents enjoy the mix of outdoor activities, cultural events, shopping and dining options, and family attractions. Other major Michigan destinations and attractions — Lansing, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Traverse City, wineries, beaches, golf and ski resorts, and many more — are within easy reach of the city’s central location in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.
CMU employees enjoy access to a nationally recognized wellness program along with health care and benefits that exceed regional, state and national norms.
CMU Leadership Standards
Central Michigan University is a place where we value students and work for their success, where we act as family, and where employees are engaged, appreciated and have extraordinary opportunities to make a difference.
We intentionally maintain and strengthen the hallmark CMU culture that sets us apart from our peers by expecting CMU leaders and employees to model the following Leadership Standards and develop them within their teams.
Please review the Leadership Standards before applying for this position.