Associate Director, Student Recruitment & Admissions - Stern@NYUAD

at  NYU Abu Dhabi

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

• Bachelors Degree

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ Years of management and relevant experience in higher education, staff and executive recruitment, and/or corporate executive training
• Excellent consultative sales and stakeholder engagement skills
• Excellent written & oral command of English
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills with diverse audiences in terms of nationality and cultural context
• Ability to handle difficult conversations diplomatically and respectfully
• Great organization and time management skills

Student Recruitment:

• Lead the team on identifying and building relations with prospective EMBA candidates
• Ensure high quality customer consultative sales service to all candidates – positively influencing their views of the program and the School
• Develop and nurture relationships with key stakeholders, e.g. students, alumni, faculty, to contribute to engagement activities
• Manage EMBA recruitment results through analysis of candidate and external data - innovate as appropriate.

Admissions & Advising:

• Focus on a customer centric approach to foster a positive end to end experience regardless of the candidate’s outcome
• Lead on the advising of EMBA prospects and applicants on admissions policies, procedures, and financial support options
• Assist in the evaluation and assessment of students’ applications and provide decision recommendations
• Collaborate with Assistant Director of enrollment operations on application processing operations

Engagement Activity:

• Input in developing strategy & the planning of owned and third party physical and virtual engagement activities focused on executives
• Lead on creating activity content relevant to the program and target audience
• Collaborate with the team in the management of all engagement activity operations
• Establish objectives and measures of success for each type of EMBA engagement activity

Corporate relations and partnerships:

• In collaboration with key stakeholders and internal business partners develop, grow, and/or maintain strategic relationships with companies sponsoring students.
• Assist with the identification of strategic channel partners for lead generation

Qualifications: