Assistant Director - Undergraduate Admission

Atlanta, Georgia

Full-Time

Regular

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• Students are our top priority.
• We strive for excellence.
• We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
• We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
• We act ethically.
• We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

This position is responsible for advancing Institutional directives and priorities through strategic admission work. Key components include directing several full time staff, serving on the office leadership team, and representing Tech at on and off campus recruitment programs. This position will interact on a regular basis with: staff, students, and visitors. This position typically will advise and counsel: staff, students, and visitors.

This position will supervise: staff and students.

• Manage transfer admission process and recruitment activities to include file review and communication with prospective students. Evaluate, advise and recommend prospects based on established Institute admission standards.
• Implement and manage campus visit programs for prospective students which include but not limited to:
  Connect with Tech, Preview, Destination Tech and Gold Carpet Day. Oversee tour guides and group tour coordination as well student program advisory boards and councils.
• Develop and recommend plans regarding recruitment efforts.
• Supervise, hire, and train professional and/or seasonal staff.
• Assist Director/Associate Director with professional functions.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Educational Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Other Required Qualifications

Experience in student development/higher education;
Admissions, including consistent participation in state and regional professional organizations; some blogging experience; excellent verbal and written communications skills and ability to work well under deadlines; presentation skills; some marketing techniques

Required Experience

Three to five years job related experience

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