Executive Director of Admissions and Student Recruitment

The Executive Director of Admissions & Student Recruitment is a key member of the admissions team at the Wisconsin School of Business. This role involves engaging over 5,000 prospective applicants annually and generating approximately 2,000 completed applications for various programs, including Full-Time, Executive, and Professional MBA programs, an online MS in Data Insights & Analytics, and seven resident one-year master's programs.

Key Responsibilities:
- Strategy & Execution: Reporting to the Associate Dean, the Executive Director will oversee the strategy and execution of recruitment, evaluation, and selection processes for students applying to the assigned programs.
- Leadership & Collaboration: The position involves leading direct reports and collaborating closely with the Marketing and Strategic Communications unit and Knowledge Centers to implement effective recruitment and enrollment tactics.
- Admissions Committee: As a voting member of the admissions committee, the Executive Director will participate in decision-making and approve merit aid packages.
- Event Management: The Executive Director will partner with direct reports to organize and host various on-campus, off-campus, and virtual recruiting events.
- University Relations: This role requires working collaboratively with colleagues across the university and building relationships with faculty, students, and alumni to enhance the admissions function and achieve enrollment objectives.

Qualifications:
- Skills: We are seeking a data-driven leader with strong CRM, operations, marketing, and team management skills. Highly developed CRM knowledge is essential.
- Supervision: The Executive Director will supervise two Associate Directors and a Merit Aid Operations Manager.
- Travel: The role includes up to 10% travel and support for some weekend and evening events.

• 30% Directs unit admissions strategic planning initiatives and establishes recruitment and enrollment goals
• 10% Develops unit admissions operating policies and procedures to comply with regulations, institutional policies, and unit objectives
• 5% Develops the unit admissions budget
• 15% Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• 10% Serves as the school or college liaison to internal and external stakeholder groups providing admission information and representing the admissions interests of the school or college
• 5% Advises school or college leadership on unit enrollment planning and management
• 5% Serves as liaison to central university admission unit to align academic program admission with university enrollment efforts
• 10% Marketing and Recruiting: Partner with Marketing and Strategic Communication (MSC) to create and execute advertising and top of funnel activities.
• 10% Recruit prospective candidates to graduate programs, including overnight travel to events.

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Required
Bachelor's Degree

Required
Master's Degree

Required:
- Minimum 5 years experience in a student recruitment or admissions role

Preferred:
- Graduate admissions experience
- Marketing experience

Full Time: 100%

It is anticipated this position requires work be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location.

Ongoing/Renewable

Minimum $90,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
The employee in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits.

Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

Please complete the online application and attach a cover letter along with a comprehensive resume.

Our search committee will review all application materials after the posted deadline. We will notify selected applicants to participate further in the selection process directly. We will notify all applicants once the search is completed and we have selected a top candidate. As applicants move on to next steps in the process, they will be asked to provide names and contact information (e-mail address, phone number, and mailing address) of at least three references.

Se Yang
se.yang@wisc.edu
608-263-2975
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Admissions Director (B)(AE115)

A12-WISCONSIN SCH OF BUSINESS/MBA & MASTERS ADMISSIONS

Academic Staff-Renewable

313889-AS