Undergraduate Admissions Counselor

Undergraduate Admissions Counselor Position Description

The Admissions Counselor will play a crucial role in building relationships, awareness, and enthusiasm for Biola University. The counselor will execute recruitment initiatives, cultivate relationships with relevant audiences, and advertise programming that attracts diverse populations of prospective freshman and transfer students. The counselor is responsible for creating and implementing strategies to recruit and enroll prospective students from a specific geographic area within both the Freshman and Transfer populations.

Strategies will include recruiting travel, phone calls, emails, texts, interviews, on-campus appointments, tours, etc. The counselor will assist in coordinating special projects, work with designated student Ambassadors, review applications and make admissions decisions. The counselor will be the primary Biola point of contact for prospective students on all matters throughout the funnel relating to enrollment.

Other responsibilities may be assigned according to the counselor’s strengths and giftedness. Extensive travel throughout the region is required. Evening and weekend hours are required.

The Admissions Counselor supports the university’s annual enrollment goals through strategic recruitment and support of prospective students.

Traditional Undergraduate Admissions

Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions

This position requires a Bachelor's degree (B.A/B.S.) from a four-year college or university or three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Hours Per Week: 40
Months Per Year: 12

This position involves driving an automobile on public roads or highways and carrying and lifting light-to-medium-weight boxes (i.e. admissions materials and an admissions display).

• Biola Bound
  - January(Saturday morning/afternoon, Tuesday morning)
• Biola Preview Day
  - February, November
• Admitted Student Day
  - April
• Hello Biola
  - August
• New Student Orientation
  - August

Effectively plan, coordinate, execute, and track strategies to reach prospects, applicants, and admitted students to achieve enrollment goals for a specified territory. Strategically analyze data in order to understand the needs of the territory and coordinate activities to effectively meet the needs of students and stakeholders in the territory.

Coordinate and execute outreach activities and recruitment events to support territory and enrollment goals. Coordinate flight, rental cars, and mailings along with scheduling visits and appointments with schools and influencers in designated territory. Responsibly steward institutional funds for travel. Establish and cultivate relationships and networking with secondary contact targets such as pastors, guidance counselors and other influencers.

Participate in and assist with optimizing on-campus and off-campus recruiting events, a responsibility that can require evening and/or weekend work. This may also require management responsibilities from the Admissions Counselor.

Deliver informative presentations to prospective students, applicants, parents, counselors, etc., both on and off campus. Presentation topics can range from general admissions information to financial aid.

Engage with prospects, applicants, admits, confirmed and parents about Biola University, admissions requirements, and next steps for admission and enrollment through in-person appointments, phone calls, email, texts, and direct mail communication.

Carefully review applicant files and make admissions decisions based on established criteria. The Admissions Counselor will manage a student application caseload of anywhere from 300-500 applications a year.

Collaborate as needed with other departments, faculty, and staff across campus in event planning and the recruitment of new students.