Student Recruitment and Admissions Specialist

Summary

Reports to the OA Manager. Performs a variety of clerical and administrative duties, in compliance with government, corporate, and management directives.

Essential Functions

• Complies with all management, corporate, and government directives and standard operating procedures.
• Models, mentors, and monitors a positive normative culture.
• Handles routine matters personally and routes non-routine to proper staff for consideration.
• Maintains the monthly calendar of activities and appointments.
• Acts as the centralized point of contact for new Job Corps prospects.
• Assists in proving presentations to local One-Stop, schools, and other agencies serving target population in effort to reach eligible populations.
• Assist in providing Job Corps Center campus tours.
• Aids the Outreach/Admission Specialist with initial Job Corps prospect contact as well as maintains contact with prospects, using social media and other innovative communication tools.
• Schedules prospects to attend information sessions. 
• Assist Outreach/Admissions Specialist with orientation sessions and information sessions to prospects of Job Corps.
• Conduct pre-arrival calls to prospective students.
• Assist the Outreach/Admissions Specialist and Center CPP teams with welcome activities for newly arrived students.
• Provides information packet to interested prospects, parents and community.
• Conducts pre-90-day focus groups with students; provides this feedback to the Outreach/Admission Manager.
• Assists the Outreach/Admissions Specialist with retention activities, including communication with students in unauthorized absence (UA) status.
• Acts as the liaison between contract management and other staff.
• Maintains the correspondence control log, receives incoming and outgoing mail, and provides follow-up on dates for action items.
• Performs a variety of clerical and administrative duties; prepares special reports; maintains files, records, and statistical data; makes travel arrangements, etc., as required. 
• Performs secretarial duties, including data entry, dictation, and typing of correspondence and other materials.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Maintains appropriate stock of office supplies.
• Maintains a filing system for all program manuals, directives, DESI procedures, and other program documents.
• Maintains accountability of staff, properly adheres to safety practices, and performs safety inspections in areas of responsibility. 
• Able to maintain 75% or higher on employee scorecard.