Manager/Assistant Director International Admissions & Recruitment

Salary : $38,940.72 - $57,198.96 Annually

Location : Florence, Alabama

Job Type: Staff

Division: Academic Affairs

Department: International Affairs

Opening Date: 01/17/2025

FLSA: Exempt

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven days. This job may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended. The posted salary and/or position title may be adjusted dependent on the successful candidate's education, experience, and unique qualifications as they relate to the position.

Description

This position provides leadership and supervision to the international admissions and recruitment team in achieving the strategic international enrollment goals of the University. Additional responsibilities include assisting the Vice Provost in advancing internationalization efforts, including cultivating productive global partnerships, implementing MOU-based collaboration programs, and developing result-driven strategies for increasing the international student population through on-campus, online, and onsite enrollment.

Sponsorship is not available for staff positions. Final title and salary grade will be determined based on the qualifications of the successful candidate.

Essential Job Duties

Lead the international admissions and recruitment teams efforts in developing annual international enrollment goals and benchmarks to ensure the long-term growth goals for international enrollment and recruitment are achieved;

Provide training, support, supervision, and mentorship to international admissions staff, including student staff, to ensure daily admission tasks are completed with quality and efficiency;

Manage, maintain, monitor goal accomplishment progress, and perform performance reviews of assigned staff;

Produce regular reports on international application and admission numbers and enrollment projections;

Develop reports to track admission numbers, assess marketing efforts, identify enrollment trends, and recruitment efforts;

Serve as the lead international admission officer and ensure timely and accurate processing of international student applications;

Represent the University both in person and through social media to prospective students, parents, UNA partner school representatives, international recruiting agents, and other individuals or organizations involved in the UNA application and admission process;

Counsel prospective applicants, partner school counterparts, and recruiting agents about distinctive academic program and scholarship opportunities;

Provide high-level services to prospective admission students and their families in a professional, friendly, and proactive manner;

Perform undergraduate and graduate admissions duties;

Perform evaluations of academic credentials to make admission determinations;

Assist in developing articulation models based on the needs of global partners and the strength of degree programs;

Assist in developing new and managing existing partnerships to strengthen global branding;

In collaboration with supervisor and departments, develop course maps, articulate credit transfers, and design pathway programs;

Collaborate with staff to ensure a seamless transition through the I-20 and onboarding process of newly admitted students;

In collaboration with supervisor, conduct market analyses, identify high-demand markets, and manage marketing, communication, and market-entry strategies;

Develop, maintain, and update all recruitment and admission materials in print, online, and social media outlets while ensuring information accuracy;

Plan and implement recruitment strategies for assigned partner schools, agents, and territories;

Assess the effectiveness and efficiency of selected recruitment strategies for assigned staff;

Review new agent applications and make service contract recommendations after reference check;

Conduct training programs for new partner universities, feeder schools, and agents;

Conduct yield analysis of partner universities, feeder schools, and agents under contract;

Create and cultivate relationships with governmental, non-governmental, and international education organizations to broadly promote UNA online and on-campus programs, certificates, and micro-credentials;

Build relationships with US and international high school counselors and community colleges to create pipelines of freshmen enrollment;

Perform all other duties as assigned. Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree is required;

Master's degree is preferred;

Experience in international admissions and recruitment at the college level, required;

International living and working experience is preferred;

Proficiency in a foreign language in addition to English is preferred. LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, OR REGISTRATIONS:

None

Special Instructions to Applicants

Applicants must upload a resume at the time of application as well as provide contact information for at least three professional references. For questions, please email or call and select option #2. Selecting an option other than #2 may result in a delayed response.

UNA is an equal opportunity employer. We seek a wide range of applicants for our positions so that our core values will be affirmed.

Staff Benefit Summary - For more details regarding each benefit listed below, please visit the HR website at or click on the links below. The benefits premiums listed below are effective March 1, 2025.

UNA has a fully-insured group health insurance program with, which includes medical, prescription drug, vision, psychiatric, and substance abuse benefits for full-time university employees, and their eligible dependents. The University covers the full individual premium for eligible employees.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama Health/Vision/RX - Monthly Premiums

Tier Employee Cost UNA Cost Total Premium

Employee $0.00 $649.45 $649.45

+Child(ren) $422.13 $649.45 $1,071.58

+Spouse $649.45 $649.45 $1,298.90

+Spouse & Child(ren) $746.22 $649.45 $1,395.67

UNA also provides dental coverage through The University covers the full individual premium for eligible employees.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama Dental - Monthly Premiums

Tier Employee Cost UNA Cost Total Premium

Employee $0.00 $27.54 $27.54

Family $36.34 $27.54 $63.88

UNA provides all eligible employees with basic life insurance at no cost to the employee. The basic life coverage level is 1.5 times the covered employee's annual base salary with a maximum benefit of $400,000. Included with your basic life coverage is Accidental Death and Dismemberment coverage at 3 times the covered employee's annual salary. The provider for this coverage is As a member of the, eligible employees have life benefits available through the TRS. Also, for eligible active employees, a death benefit of the payment of accrued sick leave is paid to the employee's beneficiary by the University.

This coverage provides benefits after a 90-day period of disability. The monthly benefit is 60% of the covered employee's monthly base salary not to exceed $10,000 per month. The cost for this benefit is paid in full by the University for eligible employees and the provider for this coverage is

Retirement Plans

The is a defined benefit plan in which participation is mandatory for eligible employees. Eligible employees are categorized by the TRS as Tier I or Tier II members.

Rates below are effective as of October 1, 2024

Tier I - Employee contribution rate is 7.5% for regular employees and 8.5% for law enforcement employees.

Tier II - Employee contribution rate is 6.2% for regular employees and 7.0% for law enforcement employees. - this retirement plan is a voluntary, supplemental, deferred compensation plan.

- this plan is a voluntary, supplemental, deferred compensation plan offered by the Retirement Systems of Alabama.

The University provide a $6.00 per month credit to eligible employees to offset the cost(s) for supplemental, voluntary benefits. All full-time regular employees are eligible for this benefit on the first day of the month following the completion of 90 days of employment.

Flexible Spending Accounts - HealthEquity

Cancer Insurance - Allstate

Short-Term Disability Insurance - Fort Dearborn Life

Life Insurance - Symetra

Accident Coverage - Symetra

Critical Illness Insurance - Symetra

Hospital Indemnity Coverage - Symetra

Vision Insurance - VSP

Air Evac Lifeteam

Long-Term Care Insurance - LTCi Plans

UNA provides remission of tuition to eligible employees and to their spouses and qualified dependent children.

Paid Time Off

- Annual leave is accrued for each hour worked. During the first 2 years of employment, the accrual is 10 workdays. After completion of 2 years of continuous service, eligible employees are entitled to 12 days of annual leave and, for each additional year of service, annual leave is increased by one day per year to a maximum of 20 days after 10 years.

- Full-time regular staff members are entitled to 96 work hours (12 workdays) of sick leave each year at the employee's regular rate of pay regardless of length of service.

- Full-time, regular staff employees are eligible for paid holidays.

Miscellaneous Benefits

01

Do you have a bachelor's degree?

No

Yes

02

Do you have a master's degree?

No

Yes

03

Do you have international living/working experience?

No, I have neither international living nor international working experience.

Yes, I have international living experience.

Yes, I have international working experience.

Yes, I have both international living and working experience.

04

Do you have experience in international admissions and recruitment at the college/university level?

No, neither.

Yes, both.

Yes, international admissions.

Yes, international recruitment.

Required Question