Status: Full-time

Department: Enrollment Services

Posted: Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Salary:

$35,568 annual

Job ID: 2224

Position Summary

The Admissions Counselor for Transfer Recruitment position is critical to the recruitment of prospective transfer students. The person in this position travels on behalf of the University and is responsible for coordinating and participating in on and off campus recruitment programs. The Admissions Counselor for Transfer Recruitment is also responsible for cultivating on-going relationships with transfer students, advising students and families about program offerings and admission requirements.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes applications and determines the eligibility of freshman, transfer and graduate students for admission to the University of New Orleans. Examines transcripts from colleges and universities for transfer credit and determines transferable credit, calculates semester-by-semester and cumulative grade point averages, reads and matches course descriptions and assigns UNO equivalents when possible prior to a student’s record. 
• Interprets non-traditional college credit earned through military service schools, College Level Examination Program, American Institute of Banking, National Secretaries Association and others for deans, faculty, and students.
• Interprets university policy and determines academic status of transfer or former UNO students. Applies transfer credit practices and eligibility requirements set by each college or division and admits students to appropriate degree programs in accordance with these practices and requirements.  Confers with deans, graduate coordinators and departments as necessary. 
• Councils with continuing UNO students, who elect to take coursework at other colleges and universities in order to ensure credit with transfer.
• Consults with academic deans and college office counselors with respect to these students and supplements UNO records of those students when coursework is complete.
• Maintains reference materials such as catalogs and web-based catalog collections from colleges and universities in the United States and foreign countries.
• Keeps abreast of UNO catalog changes in course descriptions, prerequisites, requirements, courses added or dropped or changes in course numbers and updates concerning university policy on accepting nontraditional and technical credit.
• Keeps abreast of the accreditation status of colleges and universities as determined by regional accrediting associations.
• Confers with the admission and records personnel at other United States and foreign colleges and universities, businesses, professional accreditation bodies, state agencies and foreign embassies in the admissions and credit of evaluation of domestic and international transfer students.
• Notifies applicants who are found to be ineligible for admissions; meets with and counsels students regarding options for future admission.
• Communicates orally and in writing with admissions officers and other colleges and universities for clarification of course content, grading systems, course numbering, verification of degrees and/or students’ academic standing, school calendar, etc.
• Assists the Assistant Director of Recruitment in visiting other colleges to recruit transfer students, coordinating on and off campus recruitment programs geared toward transfer students, establishing and cultivating on-going liaisons with community college counselors, faculty and students, meeting with exchange students and assisting them with the application registration process.
• Assist with special events/activities as needed.
• Actively collects and use data to make decisions and improve both individual and office performance. 
• Develop the required knowledge base to serve as a resource to all students coming to the Student Enrollment Services Center, and actively seek out this knowledge and take advantage of opportunities to grow professionally.  
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree and excellent oral and written communication skills. Willing to do extensive travel and work non-traditional hours. Must possess the ability to relate to individuals of all ages and backgrounds. Possess strong interpersonal skills.

Desired Qualifications

Advanced degree. Experience working in Enrollment Services. Technical experience working with PeopleSoft computer software, and other software applications. Comfortable with basic marketing, advertising, and recruiting principles.

Closing Date

Position will remain open until filled.