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Distance Education Graduate Concierge

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About Unity College:

For more than fifty years, Unity College has been preparing the next generation of environmental professionals and leaders to successfully face real-world challenges. With environmentally focused degrees, Unity College offers affordable and accessible degrees, certificates, and non-degree courses, through a variety of modalities including hybrid, in-person, hyflex, and online.

Our Mission:

Through the framework of sustainability science, Unity College provides a liberal arts education that emphasizes the environment and natural resources. Utilizing experiential and collaborative learning, our graduates emerge as responsible citizens, environmental stewards, and visionary leaders.

Position Overview:

The Distance Education Graduate Concierge is a revenue generating position focused on recruiting a population of students interested in online graduate programs or other Distance Education offerings. The Distance Education Graduate Concierge is responsible for all aspects of the admissions recruitment cycle including communicating with prospective students and business partners to aid in recruitment. The Concierge maintains accurate records and works proactively with all stages of student recruitment from prospect identification through matriculation and supports Distance Education Advisors as needed.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Meet or exceed recruitment goals, which are set annually.
  • Build and maintain necessary relationships with prospective students and other influencers.
  • Review student applications for admission decisions for designated online programs based on agreed upon parameters.
  • Prepare and deliver effective recruitment presentations at colleges, fairs, workshops, and conferences while managing a table at those events.
  • Counsel and guide students through each stage of the admissions process.
  • Make phone calls, send emails, traditional mail, and be comfortable using effective technology as part of the recruitment process.
  • Become knowledgeable and articulate about Unity College Distance Education, its programs, market niche, strategies, and procedures.
  • Understand how to work with non-traditional and adult learners.
  • Full life cycle management of a pool of applicants: proactive and holistic student contact and conversion throughout the inquiry, application, and processes using the Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) database.
  • Serve as primary information provider for students about the admission process, including information about financial aid, billing, and the academic experience.
  • Partner with Unity College Area Representatives to recruit greater number of students from secondary and tertiary territories.
  • Maintain appropriate records and submit timely reports on all recruitment activities as needed.
  • Other duties as assigned.
Full job description provided at time of interview.



Required:
  • Bachelors degree
  • 3 years experience in college admissions recruiting.
  • Excellent initiative and organizational skills with ability to work both autonomously and in a team.
  • Great time management skills.
  • Ability to be professionally persistent.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills with strong interpersonal skills.
  • Ability and willingness to work with students from diverse political/socioeconomic backgrounds and a wide range of physical and academic abilities.
  • Good skills in word processing, spreadsheets, and computerized database systems.
  • Personal commitment to the environmental focus and mission of Unity College.
  • Ability to function effectively within a matrix organizational structure, maintaining open lines of communication while being discreet, courteous, and well poised.
Preferred:
  • Experience in recruiting online students.
  • Personal experience with higher education financial assistance programs.
Location: Pineland Farms, New Gloucester, Maine

Just a half hour from Portland, Unity College Headquarters, Unity College Distance Education, The Technical School for Environmental Professions, and the School of Environmental Business & Sustainable Ventures are based at the Pineland Farms campus. The facilities are within easy access to one of the fastest-growing cities for startups in the country.

Benefits:

Unity College offers a comprehensive and competitive compensation and benefits package for its faculty and staff. Benefits for eligible employees include:
  • Paid holidays
  • Paid time off
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Short- and Long-term disability
  • Life Insurance
  • Flexible work benefit eligible
  • Vision
  • 403B

Company

Unity Environmental University.

At Unity, a private university in Maine, sustainability isn’t a buzzword. It’s the foundation of our entire approach, and has been for more than 50 years.

We apply sustainability principles to everything we do, from our properties around the State of Maine, to our online degrees offered to students everywhere, to our enrichment experiences and entrepreneurial endeavors at locations from northern Maine to Arizona to Brazil.

Engage with Unity Environmental University and you’ll start to ask tough questions, challenge the status quo, and envision new possibilities. If taking the lead in creating a more sustainable future sounds like the future you want, we can make it happen.

Unity Environmental University

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