Role overview

Description

This position has an end date of June 30, 2027.

Location - This role is hybrid with a mix of remote and in-person. Work primarily takes place at North Campus, Edmonton.

Are you a motivated, knowledgeable, collaborative, and strategy-focused professional who loves to work in a dynamic and complex environment? We are seeking to fill a Student Recruitment Service Partner position to support the graduate student recruitment needs of the University of Alberta.

The Student Recruitment Service Partner is a service-minded professional who will work collaboratively with key partners within Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies (GPS) to develop prospective graduate student recruitment strategies and tactical plans that will effectively support the recruitment and diverse enrolment objectives of the university. Reporting to the Student Recruitment Director and Assistant Registrar in the Office of the Registrar with a dotted line to the Faculty General Manager in GPS, the Student Recruitment Service Partner will collaborate with other leadership and staff positions to harmonize and align tactical recruitment plans with the coordinated recruitment strategy within Student Recruitment. This role will work closely with an Enrolment Management Service Partner and Recruitment Marketing Strategist to serve the GPS portfolio and graduate enrolment needs in a coordinated and holistic way. The Student Recruitment Service Partner will lead an action team of Student Recruiters dedicated to graduate recruitment excellence to brainstorm, plan, organize, deliver, and evaluate in-person and virtual recruitment events, presentations, yield activities, prospective student communications, and advising initiatives.

Responsibilities

Provides professional, informed and creative advice to the Student Recruitment Director and Assistant Registrar, Faculty General Manager and Executive Leadership in GPS, and other key stakeholders with respect to appropriate graduate recruitment strategies, tactics, and messaging.
Develops and evaluates graduate-specific recruitment plans and tactics in support of the institutional direction and in collaboration with institutional recruitment efforts; ensures that strategies and plans support the Access, Community and Belonging objectives of the university.
Acts as part of an integrated team of service partners and staff who support enrolment management within the Office of the Registrar and coordinates approaches in support the enrolment objectives of faculties, and the institution; ensures the university meets its overarching and targeted student recruitment goals.
Cultivates and enhances relationships with students, supporters, alumni, and post-secondary institutions.
Advises on key factors impacting graduate student recruitment, including identifying opportunities and risks and advising on strategies to manage these risks.
Provides content expertise and works with communications and Recruitment Marketing to develop, implement, and maintain recruitment presentations, publications, campaigns, communications and promotional initiatives for future graduate students, as well as coordination of social media promotions and other initiatives. Ensures strategies compliment and align with other communications/marketing strategies within Student Recruitment.
Builds and maintains collaborative partnerships with your fellow Student Recruitment Service Partners and leaders within the Student Recruitment, GPS Executive Leadership, International Recruitment, Indigenous Enrolment Management, Enrolment Management Service Partners, marketing and communications professionals, Faculty Associate Deans Graduate, Graduate Coordinators, Graduate Administrators, Admissions, Student Financial Support, and others to ensure advocacy for graduate student recruitment needs and to deliver solutions necessary to meet their enrolment goals.
Utilizes Slate to facilitate and optimize Graduate Recruitment work; advocates for support from the Slate team and coordinates between units for optimal outcomes.
Develops and leads training in partnership with Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies for recruitment staff within Student Recruitment, as well as other partners. Ensures training documents are up-to-date and relevant to promoting the client group for recruitment purposes, such as training manuals, videos, and other training resources.
Develops, delegates, and evaluates annual recruitment strategies and establishes target schools/institutions/regions for client group; leads the division of work and assignment of tasks with Student Recruiters supporting this area.
Allocates and monitors assigned resources and budgets effectively to achieve expected results.
Creates quarterly reports and attends regular meetings with client group for the purpose of transparent communication and monitoring of graduate recruitment and enrolment trends and outcomes.

Qualifications

A Bachelor's degree.
A passion for student recruitment, service excellence, an inherent drive to add value, and a deep rooted belief that our collective purpose is to serve the University of Alberta, its prospective students, and their influencers.
An understanding of prospective student recruitment best practice and experience in the field of student recruitment.
Familiarity with graduate programs and post-secondary education systems in Canada.
A drive to meet and exceed goals, embrace challenges, foster engagement and ensure key priorities are set with a proactive plan to deliver.
Superb presentation and written communication skills that influences and inspires prospective students, their influencers, and builds trust-based relationships with colleagues and partners.
Ability to develop and maintain high levels of trust and credibility, act with integrity and tact, and demonstrate respect and empathy.
Problem solving and critical thinking skills to analyze problems, identify alternative solutions, assess consequences of proposed actions, choose the most appropriate solution and implement successfully.
Ability to foster a cooperative work environment, manage diversity, manage change, and establish and maintain effective working relationships.
Ability to effectively delegate work and lead staff.
The capacity and flexibility to excel within a challenging and fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
Understanding of Access, Community and Belonging.
Experience working with graduate students or within a graduate post-secondary environment is considered an asset.
Knowledge of Slate is considered an asset.
A Class 5 Driver's License is strongly recommended.

Application Instructions

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This position offers a comprehensivebenefits package, and an annual salary range of $71,856 to $119,681.

The terms and conditions of this appointment are governed bySchedule Gof the collective agreement between the University and the Association of Academic Staff of the University of Alberta.