Enrollment Advisor

Description

An enrollment advisor is responsible for ensuring that students receive high-quality, personalized support to help them achieve their academic, personal, and career goals from admission to graduation. 

Job Responsibilities: 

• Ability to develop relationships with students and leaders of ethnically underrepresented backgrounds through culturally responsive and informed conversations and outreach events.
• Manages a set of students for the purposes of moving them through the admissions process all the way through graduation. 
• Implement academic degree plans that enhance student retention, persistence, and success.
• Use data and technology (e.g. advising software, academic tracking systems) to monitor student progress and advising effectiveness.
• Be involved in critical campus events in the admissions and advising process, including orientation, new student advising, and ongoing academic advising services.
• Develop proactive advising strategies to identify and support at-risk students.
• Collaborate with faculty and other student services departments to ensure a holistic approach to student success.
• Ensure advising services are compliant with institutional policies, accreditation standards, and best practices in higher education advising.
• Stay current with trends, issues, and research in academic advising and student development. 
• Utilize CRM (Slate) and SIS (Jenzabar) to carry out strategic initiatives, analyze reports, and manage personal recruitment and retention efforts. 
• Travel to target areas and participate in new student recruitment events (high school visits, churches, and college fairs). 
• Support recruitment efforts, including campus tours and on- and off-campus events as needed, to ensure guests have a positive experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required. 
• Experience in Christian higher education and professional experience in an enrollment management model, a plus
• An understanding of how to responsibly utilize social media in a work environment.
• Self-motivated.
• Ability to manage time well on a varying work schedule.
• Clean Driving Record.
• Demonstrated skills in written and oral communication, effective public speaking skills. Interpersonal and team development skills for effective staff leadership and management; exceptional human relational skills. 
• Excellent proactive planning, organizational and project management skills. Effective resource management.
• Valid driver's license.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
• A maturing and contagious Christian faith. Knowledge of, ability to articulate, and willingness to actively support the Christian mission of the University and accept the life-style standards of Greenville University. 

Salary Band: $29,250-$88,000/ Annually. Individual rates within the range will be determined by factors including one's qualifications and performance, equity with others in the department, market rates for positions and department budget.  

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. 

Greenville University's Mission: 

Greenville University is liberal arts University that empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming Christ-centered education. Our hiring practices reflect our commitment to be a Christ-centered institution. 

GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY: The university is located 50 miles east of St. Louis in an attractive residential community of approximately 7,000 people. Greenville was founded in 1892 and is affiliated with the Free Methodist Church yet draws students from 40+ denominations. For additional information, please visit our website: www.greenville.edu. 

Greenville University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, sex, disability, family responsibilities, or  national or ethnic origin, in employment opportunities, in keeping with applicable state and federal laws. In keeping with the mission of the institution, Greenville University seeks applicants with a strong commitment to the values and lifestyle of evangelical Christianity and who profess a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. As a Christian institution, we require faculty and staff to adhere to the University's Lifestyle statement and to enforce a religiously based code of conduct for all University employees. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Greenville University, as an educational institution affiliated with the Free Methodist Church USA, reserves the right to prefer employees on the basis of religion (Title VII, Sections 702-703, United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended).