Admissions and Enrollment Manager

Admissions and Enrollment Manager

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and a world leader in experiential learning. The same commitment to connecting with the world drives our use-inspired research enterprise. The university offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Our campuses in Charlotte, N.C., San Francisco, Seattle, and Toronto are regional platforms for undergraduate and graduate learning and collaborative research. Northeastern pursues advanced research in security and materials at the Innovation Campus in Burlington, Massachusetts, and in coastal sustainability at the Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts.

About the Opportunity:
This is an exciting, hands-on opportunity for an admission professional to be involved in all phases of the admission/enrollment process for professional/graduate programs in pharmacy.

This is a full-time, benefits-eligible professional staff position in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Bouve College of Health Sciences, reporting to the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs in the school.

This position is 40 hours per week M-F. The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is dedicated to excellence in pharmacy-related education, research, and service, including the provision of patient care. We prepare students with knowledge, skills, and values for careers in pharmacy practice and the pharmaceutical sciences. Our programs promote intellectual growth, professionalism, and lifelong learning. The school contributes to improved individual and population health through the generation and dissemination of new knowledge and through scholarship and community service.

Responsibilities:
The Admissions and Enrollment Manager in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SOPPS), under the supervision of the Assistant Dean in the Office of Student Affairs, directs and manages all phases of SOPPS admissions and enrollment processes.

The Admissions and Enrollment Manager establishes and maintains all aspects of infrastructure for direct admission to the professionally accredited Doctor of Pharmacy program and well as the undergraduate and graduate programs in pharmaceutical sciences (major, minor, combined major, MS, and Ph.D. degrees); and actively integrates other SOPPS pathways and programs in coordination with Bouve College of Health Sciences and the university's Enrollment Management offices.

The Admissions and Enrollment Manager manages the yearlong application cycle (utilizing the CAS system on the WebAdmit platform) from recruitment phase through matriculation and is the administrative member of the SOPPS Admission Committees in the departments of Pharmacy and Health Systems Sciences and Pharmaceutical Sciences as well as for the accreditation-mandated faculty and appropriate external stakeholders charged with admissions into the SOPPS programs.

The Admissions and Enrollment Manager attracts and retains highly qualified candidates by promoting SOPPS programs nationally and internationally via targeted marketing and social media campaigns while working closely with appropriate college and university offices on larger-scale campaigns. The Admissions and Enrollment Manager develops and deploys an effective quality assurance process to ensure that quality improvement occurs within and across recruitment cycles. The Admissions and Enrollment Manager drives enrollment targets and timelines needed to achieve the school's enrollment goals while exercising DEI core values strategically institutes changes and quality improvements and establishes high-touch points and culture and communication strategies to attract/retain applicants and maximize yield correspondence.

The Admissions and Enrollment Manager directly oversees, trains, and manages a team of application readers and student workers and creates a culture that ensures consistent, high-quality, and timely completion of admissions and recruitment activities, including prospective student correspondence, interviews, open houses, webinars, and meetings, onboarding, student retention, and orientation. The Admissions and Enrollment Manager utilizes highly developed, effective communication skills to engage a variety of stakeholders and business partners within a complex organizational structure to move admissions and enrollment processes forward. The Admissions and Enrollment Manager is responsible for creating an efficient global SOPPS enrollment infrastructure (admissions, student support, and inclusive policies) and manages all international recruitment efforts, and serves as the point of contact and representatives for SOPPS.

Qualifications:
Knowledge of admissions and enrollment systems, web-based applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe, Banner, etc.), and social media platforms.

Proven ability to successfully lead initiatives and manage processes is required. A high level of motivation, attention to detail, excellent interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills, ability to organize and execute on diverse priorities a requirement. Excellent decision-making and critical thinking are required.

Experience with graphic design, website software, and/or Adobe suite is a plus. Relationship building, diversity consciousness, customer-relations focus, and an ability to manage change are other competencies required by the position.

Knowledge and skills typically acquired through a bachelor's degree and at least 3 - 5 years of related experience; Master's degree and admissions experience strongly preferred.


Preferred Qualifications:
N/A

Salary Grade:
11

Additional Information:


Bouve College of Health Sciences has over 200 faculty members, with approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 2,400 graduate students. It is the leading national model for education and research in the health, psychosocial and biomedical sciences and supports the University's mission of educating students for a life of fulfillment and accomplishment and creating and translating knowledge to meet global and societal needs. Within Bouve, the Behrakis Health Sciences Center houses a state-of-the-art human performance and exercise laboratory with teaching and research space, including fully equipped exercise stress testing stations, metabolic carts, Lunar DEXA machine, an underwater weighing tank, Cybex and Keiser strength and power equipment, wet lab facilities for blood processing and muscle biopsies. The Arnold S. Goldstein Simulation Laboratories Suite, opened in 2013, provides a state-of-the-art simulation center for interprofessional education.

Northeastern University is on an exciting trajectory of growth and innovation. The University is a leader in inter-disciplinary research, urban engagement, experiential learning, and the integration of classroom learning with real-world experience. Northeastern University is home to 20,000 students and to the nation's premier cooperative education program. The past decade has witnessed a dramatic increase in Northeastern's international reputation for research and innovative educational programs. A heightened focus on interdisciplinary research and scholarship is driving a faculty hiring initiative at Northeastern, advancing its position amongst the nation's top research universities. Northeastern University is situated on the Avenue of the Arts in Boston's historic Back Bay, four blocks from the Longwood Medical Area, encompassing Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and eight blocks from the Boston Medical Center.

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.


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