Admissions Counselor - Delaware Law School

Widener University is currently seeking an Admissions Counselor in the Office of JD Admissions at the Delaware Law School. Reporting to the Assistant Dean for Admissions, this role is responsible for assisting with meeting enrollment goals, aiding in the development and evaluation of strategic recruitment and enrollment plans, and building strong working relationships with faculty, administrators, students and pre-law advisors. The Admissions Counselor will work closely with the Assistant Dean for Admissions and the entire Admissions Office Team to actively recruit applicants from a national applicant pool.

The Admissions Counselor will assist in the dissemination of information, recruitment strategy, evaluation, selection and enrollment of first year and transfer students. While providing excellent customer service to prospective students, the Admissions Counselor will be required to work with a high level of professionalism, attention to detail, process management, discretion, and confidentiality.

• Review law school applications and provide decision recommendations.
• Under the supervision of the Executive Director of Recruitment and Diversity Enrollment Initiatives track, monitor, support and perform all administrative and registration functions associated with all off-campus recruitment events including processing payments, managing event host relationships and invoices, preparing recruitment calendar, mailing/shipping recruitment materials, and communicating all pertinent event information to individually assigned recruiters.
• Assist with recruitment strategy development.
• Coordinate data entry and tracking of all off-campus event Prospect Student leads and necessary follow-up.
• Maintain contact information for and relationships with event sponsors year over year to ensure registration and inclusion in future events.
• Assist with the planning and hosting of on and off campus recruitment events.
• Represent Law School at regional and national off campus recruitment events to qualified and diverse applicants.
• Develop and steward relationships with regional and national undergraduate institution pre-law advisors and career development professionals.
• Conduct information and counseling sessions with prospective applicants.
• Conduct group presentations.
• Track the success of recruitment and outreach efforts.
• Assist with implementation of targeted email aspects of office communication plan.
• Assist with review and provide updates to all admissions web content on an ongoing basis.
• Assist in the production of marketing materials.
• Personal communication, correspondence, and follow-up (written, electronic, telephone) with prospective students.
• Understand, create, and implement all CRM system (UNITE) functions associated with lead generation, scholarship modeling, application import verification, and decision processing.
• Process admission decisions and all necessary follow up communications.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned or directed to support departmental needs and align with the mission, values and goals of the Delaware Law School and Widener University.

• Assist, when necessary, with the following:
• Processes application imports, admission decisions, and deposits.
• Manage CRM system (LSAC UNITE) and University Database System (Colleague), and all functions related to application document submissions and application verification process.
• At times, acts as liaison with Law School Admissions Council Support Services Team for applicants having difficulty with the application itself, the Credential Assembly Service, or Online Status Check tool.
• Conduct first level of application review, providing necessary email communication to applicants who have failed to provide all needed information.
• Independently determine application readiness for decision review; determine and track application stage and status and communicate with applicants accordingly.

The ideal candidate for this position should be able to work independently, multi-task, and problem-solve.…