Director of Recruitment

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To help our team work efficiently and provide timely service to everyone, we kindly ask that candidates refrain from calling the department for routine status updates regarding requests, applications, or ongoing matters.

Our team processes inquiries, we do not hire for them. Only the hiring department hires and reviews candidates in the order they are received. Frequent status calls may delay response times by reducing the time available to complete pending work.

If additional information or documentation is required, a member of the hiring team will contact you directly. If you are chosen for the position, you will be notified through the appropriate communication channel.

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Security Sensitive Position? Yes

Hours of Work 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM M-F

Official TSU Title Director of Recruitment

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Texas Southern University ( TSU ) invites applications for the position of Director of Recruitment within the Division of Enrollment Management. The Director of Recruitment is a strategic leadership position responsible for developing, implementing, and managing TSU’s comprehensive student recruitment program. This position provides end-to-end ownership of the University’s enrollment recruitment strategy — from prospective-student identification through enrollment deposit — and serves as the Division’s primary architect of territory management, lead-funnel conversion, dual-credit pipeline development, and transfer-student recruitment.

The Director directly supervises the Admission Counselors and is responsible for their day-to-day direction, professional development, and performance.

The Director of Recruitment reports to the Executive Director of Admissions and works in close partnership with the Enrollment Management Marketing and Communications Manager to ensure recruitment strategies and outreach communications are fully aligned. For transfer student recruitment, the Director collaborates directly with the Transfer Center to develop and coordinate outreach strategies, build community college relationships, and support prospective transfer students through the enrollment process.

This position plays a direct role in TSU’s ability to grow enrollment, improve yield, and build the transfer pipeline that Texas’s performance-based funding framework is specifically designed to incentivize. The Director of Recruitment is a key member of the Division’s leadership team and is expected to represent TSU with professionalism and distinction in all internal and external settings.

• Develop, implement, and continuously evaluate TSU’s comprehensive enrollment recruitment strategy, including annual recruitment plans, territory assignments, yield targets, and conversion benchmarks aligned with the University’s enrollment goals.
• Design and manage a territory–based recruitment model covering high schools, community colleges, dual–credit partners, and feeder institutions across the Houston metropolitan area and key Texas markets.
• Establish and track annual recruitment goals by student type (first–time freshmen, transfer, dual–credit, adult learner), geography, academic program, and demographic segment.
• Analyze enrollment trends, market data, and competitor positioning to identify opportunities and inform strategic recruitment decisions; prepare and present recruitment performance reports to the Executive Director of Admissions on a regular basis.
• Collaborate with academic deans, department chairs, and faculty to develop program–specific recruitment…