The Student Recruitment and Admission Officer serves as a primary ambassador for Bellarmine University, engaging prospective students, families, high school counselors, community partners, and other key stakeholders. This role supports the strategic growth, diversification, and geographic expansion of the University's student population.

The Student Recruitment and Admission Officer will independently develop and implement recruiting initiatives to meet application and enrollment goals. The officer will conduct a holistic review of first-year, transfer and graduate student applications for their assigned school, and others as assigned. This position must be effective at independently planning recruitment strategies including high school visits, area receptions and individual meetings for their assigned territory of travel.

Primary Responsibilities

Working collaboratively with the Assistant Dean of Admission and senior leadership, the Student Recruitment and Admission Officer will:

• Travel extensively within an assigned territory to represent Bellarmine University at high schools, college fairs, receptions, counselor meetings, alumni events, and community programs
• Establish relationships with key schools in select markets (through high school visits, counselor breakfast meetings, college fairs, receptions, alumni networking, and other events either in person or virtually).
• Manage the full admission cycle for students within the assigned school(s), including application review, interviews, counselor outreach, and admission recommendations.
• Maintain contacts with prospective students and events in Slate CRM (customer relationship management) system, respond to inquiries for admission information by phone, email, text and in person.
• Maintain accurate reports and records pertaining to high school visits, telephone contacts, admission files and year-end recruitment analysis.
• Provide prospective students and their families with basic scholarship and financial aid information.
• Participate in weekly team meetings, supervisor check-ins, admission committee meetings, and required on-campus programs (e.g., visit days, admitted student events).
• Track expenses and coordinate activities to stay within recruitment budget.  
• Ability to evaluate ROI of strategies in assigned territory to determine effectiveness of initiatives. 
• Manage additional tasks as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree 
• One year of work experience preferred 
• Ability to work independently and manage responsibilities remotely while traveling 
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively, including evenings and weekends as needed 

Professional Competencies: 

• Self-motivated and demonstrated ability to function independently and the ability to conduct responsibilities from residence 
• Ability to work and communicate with individuals from diverse backgrounds 
• In alignment with the University's commitment to equity and inclusion, we seek an individual dedicated to and invested in equity and inclusiveness 
• Strong public speaking and interpersonal skills; with excellent presentation and communication skills to articulate and present ideas and concepts in written and presentation formats 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience in student recruitment, education advocacy or college counseling 
• Experience working in an institution of higher education 
• Knowledge and understanding of Slate (or a Customer Relationship Management system) 
• Demonstrated ability to present information to small and large groups 

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About Bellarmine University

Bellarmine University is a dynamic, growing university with a strong liberal arts focus in the Catholic higher education tradition and a bold vision for the future. Bellarmine has undergraduate and graduate enrollment of nearly 4,000 students, and continues to add new academic programs while maintaining small class sizes and personal attention to students. Bellarmine is listed in the Princeton Review's Best 382 Colleges, is one of the top 15 Southern regional universities in U.S. News and World Report's 2018 college rankings, and is a top university in Forbes' list of America's best colleges. In a survey by The Princeton Review, students praised Bellarmine as a place that is "welcoming to every single person and makes an effort to include everyone." Bellarmine students, faculty and staff engage in more than 25,000 cumulative hours of service each year, in Louisville and around the nation and world. Bellarmine is located on a scenic 175-acre campus in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, KY, which Glassdoor recently recognized one of the nation's top 10 cities where pay goes the furthest, and National Geographic calls it a top 10 food city. ZipRecruiter calls Louisville a top 1...0 city for job seekers, thanks in part to its central location and low unemployment. Louisville is within a day's drive of two-thirds of the U.S. population. Bellarmine is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply. Bellarmine University is committed to core values of diversity, equity and inclusion and embraces diversity in our workforce among members of faculty, staff and administration. We remain committed to affirmative actions, policies, procedures and attitudes necessary to continue to build and retain a diverse and equitable workforce. We will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of our increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential. As part of Bellarmine's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we will seek to ensure that all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, layoff and termination processes remain free of discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.

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