Admissions Director

Description:
**_ Purpose and Scope_**

The Director of Admissions coordinates the enrollment management for the school.
- Status: Grade 5, 12B Full-time; 12 months; Usual work hours are 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Occasional work on weekends
- Reports to the Principal or Designee

**Requirements**:
**_ Essential Job Functions_**
- Catholic Identity and Mission
- Practicing Roman Catholic
- Excellent communication skills, including ability to write and speak in a positive, consistent, and attractive way in both English and Spanish
- Bilingual: Able to speak and write well in both English and Spanish
- High level of organization and interpersonal skills
- Promotes the school’s mission; able to articulate the significance of Catholic teachings on faith and morals to prospective families
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and loyalty to Catholic Church and the school
- Ability to collaborate effectively with administration, staff, teachers, parents and volunteers
- Admissions
- Coordinates the admissions practices for the school
- Maintains the database of all applicants
- Coordinates entrance testing for in-coming student applicants
- Interviews potential students and parents (in English and Spanish)
- School Community and Communications
- Leads the student and parent ambassadors
- Trains students to serve as tour guides and ambassadors for the school
- Plans, schedules, and coordinates activities to engage grades school students in the school community, such as Shadow days and 8th grade events
- Establishes communication between St John Paul II and local Catholic Elementary Schools and parishes
- Communicates with the school community and parents of incoming students
- Finds ways to contribute to the building of the culture and community at St. John Paul II
- Communicates and maintains institutional identity within the school faculty and staff through professional development
- Assists with press releases, photographs, and promotional information that will spread positive messages of the school, its students, programs, and community activities under the coordination of the Director of Advancement
- Enrollment Strategies
- Implements strategies to increase enrollment
- Utilizes the school’s branding and marketing plan on all platforms
- Demonstrates knowledge and support of the school’s marketing strategy for school admissions in collaboration with principal the Director of Advancement
- Leads campus tours for parents and prospective students on a regular basis
- Serves on the Enrollment and Marketing Committee of the School Advisory Board

Job Requirements:
**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required**
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Communications, or Marketing with equivalent work experience
- Must be Bilingual: English and Spanish
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in both English and Spanish
- Ability to work independently, set schedules, prioritize tasks, supervise others and work in a team setting
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Ability to stand and sit for extended periods of time

**_ Other Duties_**

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, school administration reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g., emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, rush jobs, technological developments, etc.).