Assistant Director; Student Programming Specialist), Transfer Student Engagement and Success

ADMISSIONS ORG (BL-ADMS-IUBLA)

• Provides strategic oversight for student-facing engagement, belonging initiatives, and peer‑led programming specifically tied to the Hoosier Link program and transfer student success.
• Supports undergraduate and transfer recruitment and articulation awareness with a focused emphasis on the Hoosier Link transfer pathway.
• Ensures smooth internal operations and partner alignment while designing scalable academic success and coaching initiatives.
• Supervises and develops student leaders, mentors, and student employees supporting the Hoosier Link program.
• Designs and coordinates community‑building events, onboarding programs, and targeted workshops specifically for transfer students.
• Plans, executes, participates in targeted undergraduate student recruitment initiatives, including IU transfer pathways, through campus presentations, events, and prospective student meetings.
• Engages in recruitment efforts, including outreach, file review, yield strategies, and pathway clarity, while providing feedback on transfer student trends.
• Manages team workflows, project timelines, and logistics for Hoosier Link initiatives, serving as the primary point of contact for program inquiries.
• Schedules and facilitates meetings with campus and external partners, including ITCC, advising units, and Housing and Residential Life.
• Collaborates with advising units to monitor academic progress trends, identify early risk indicators, and reduce duplicate credit issues.
• Tracks and communicates referrals for academic withdrawals, grade appeals, and SAP‑related concerns to leadership and partners.
• Develops frameworks for peer‑led study groups and success workshops tailored to common skill gaps among transfer students.
• Tracks participation and engagement trends to summarize aggregate academic metrics for program assessment and high‑level outcomes.

• Develops and implements programs and initiatives geared at enhancing and reinforcing the academic engagement and experiential learning capacity of the student experience. Projects programming outcomes at the program, department/division, or campus level.
• Interfaces directly with students, attending student programming events and gathering satisfaction feedback from student participants to implement into future student programming initiatives and objectives.
• Collaborates with staff in their own department and other departments, as well as academic and campus leaders, on shared student programming goals, often coordinating funding to sponsor student programs.
• Measures and evaluates effectiveness of student programs against projected outcomes; may prepare reports on impact to students and budget and may present to stakeholders on effectiveness and to secure funding for initiatives moving forward.
• May serve on committees and perform student programming research across the field of higher education and at peer institutions to identify and recommend best practices.
• Plans and coordinates communications for student programming initiatives to ensure student participation and inclusion.

Required

• Bachelor's degree in education, social work, public affairs, counseling, business, or related field.

Preferred

• Master's degree in higher education student affairs or related field.

Preferred

• Experience in student services, higher education, or related field.

Required

• Proficient communication skills.
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism.
• Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills.
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality.
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment.
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty.
• Develops and delivers effective presentations.
• Demonstrated customer service skills.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidential information.
• Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision‑making skills.
• Demonstrates excellent judgment, tact, and diplomacy.
• Ability to build strong partnerships with students and other university departments.

This role requires the ability to effectively communicate and to operate a computer and other standard office productivity…