Additional Info

• Outreach to students establishing relationships and move them through the recruitment funnel.
• Give presentations in high schools to students
• Schedule, attend, and follow up recruitment events, including college fairs, high school visits, and apply2college. 
• Share the benefits of attending UNK
• Build connection with prospective students through territory management and relationship building efforts
• Be a UNK subject matter expert
• Provide follow-up to all requests from students, ensuring superior customer service
• Document, in detail, interactions with students including student interests, activities, and preferences
  
  

• Build lasting, supportive relationships with prospective students, offer encouragement, guidance, and personalized attention from their first inquiry through enrollment.
• Act as a reliable resource for students and families, guiding them through admissions requirements, application stages, and actions.
• Establish connections with high school counselors and administrators, fostering partnerships that support student engagement and enrollment goals.
• Provide consistent, precise and timely communication, sharing relevant updates, deadlines, and resources.

• Responsible for managing assigned territory using the TargetX/Salesforce CRM system tools, data and communication flows to track student progress, application status, and engagement across admissions phases, ensuring accurate and timely outreach.
• Communicate proactively and enthusiastically using email, SMS, social media and any other forms of messaging, using effective communication to share information and build relationships.
• Prepare and present reports on recruitment activities, event participation, and enrollment progress.
• Analyze the effectiveness of recruitment strategies, adjusting approaches to optimize engagement with students and school partners.

• Create, maintain and regularly refresh a vast knowledge base of UNK’s academic programs, majors, minors, and degree requirements; student life & campus culture; as well as alumni success stories, and post-graduation outcomes to support the college decision making process and speak to student aspirations.
• Contribute to projects related to recruitment, creating efficiency, increasing accurate of reporting and department goals.

• Assist with campus visits, group tours, special events, New Student Enrollment, and other recruitment events across campus. 

• Ability to interact with people from various backgrounds and positions
• Skilled in using Microsoft 365 applications
• Skilled in time management
• Ability to identify details and leverage them to build relationships with others
• Skilled in providing detailed documentation on interactions and events
• Highly knowledgeable of UNK and the greater Kearney Community
• Ability to travel, including overnights and weekends
• Must have valid driver’s license
• Must be able to lift boxes up to 40 pounds in weight

Ability to solve problems and make independent decisions using own judgement.

This position is critical to the University#s overall enrollment strategy.

Interact with prospective students and their families on a daily basis as well as faculty, staff, students, and administrators along with general public through face-to-face, email, and phone conversations.

This position may exercise guidance over student employees. This position receives direct supervision from Assistant Director of First-Year Recruitment.

Yes

Students

Office,Other/ Combined

Will work events hosted in high schools.

Operation of a computer mouse with their dominant hand.