Admissions Counselor For Residential Programs - PT

Description

Serve with the department director, managers, and team to provide professional, prompt, and friendly interaction with prospective students. This role promotes the seminary and its programs effectively to prospective students by focusing on communicating Westminster's theological and methodological distinctives, in addition to its core values and mission, while walking through the logistics of student life. This role focuses on student recruitment, student support, and student yielding across all Westminster residential degree programs.

Duties and responsibilities

• Contacting and recruiting prospective students over phone and email

• Interacting with students in the admissions process (application requirements, TOEFL requirements,)

• Facilitating individual on-campus visits for students

• Organize and oversee prospective student days

• Assist virtual prospective student days

• Assist with and travel to external conferences and recruiting events

• Leads the historical theological campus tours

• Assist and oversee on campus events

• Help transition students into the local community by assisting them with employment, finding a local church and housing.

• Inform students of financial aid options

Requirements

• Completed at least one full year in the MAR or MDiv program at Westminster OR

• In-depth understanding of Westminster's theological distinctives, history, and faculty

• Highly motivated and proactive

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Keen attention detail in verbal and written communication

• Strong organizational abilities

• Excellent customer service and student support skills

• Proficient administrative skills required

• Proficient technological skills required

• This job operates primarily in an academic environment.

• This is an on-campus position.

• This is a part-time, non-exempt position, approx. 20 hrs per week.

Westminster Competencies

A successful employee will exemplify these competencies as they fulfill their duties and responsibilities:

Demeanor: Embodies the fruits of the Spirit in the office, interacts with people lovingly, joyfully, peacefully, patiently, kindly, faithfully, gently, and in a self-controlled manner.

Organization: Organizes their work in such a way that co-workers could find key resources/documents, and/or provide the tools necessary to succeed.

Communication

• Equips supervisors and co-workers by communicating in a clear, kind, and timely manner

Initiative & Innovation

• Identifies problems and/or solutions without being asked and consistently develops fresh perspectives, insights, and creative problem solving that help the team more efficiently and/or effectively achieve departmental and institutional goals.

Effectiveness & Dependability

• Supervisors can trust you to produce timely, high quality, and generally error-free work with an appropriate amount of time and resources, that you fulfill your commitments, are on time to meetings, and provide advance notice of either delays or failures to meet goals.

Teamwork / Service

• Clears the way for the success of others by providing support to their teammates in whatever way is needed;

Technical Proficiency

• Effectively utilizes platforms and systems to help the team achieve institutional and departmental goals

Westminster Theological Seminary hires only personnel who subscribe to Biblical orthodoxy (belief) and orthopraxy (practice). Employees shall affirm their agreement with the historic, trinitarian Christian faith as expressed in the Apostles' Creed. Otherwise, Westminster Theological Seminary is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, except as specifically allowed by federal and state law, and basing employment decisions on merit, qualifications and training. Westminster Theological Seminary does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion (except as religion is a bona fide occupational qualification), sex, national origin, age, disability or any other classification protected by law.

This is intended to be an accurate presentation of this position. There may be duties and accountabilities that will be presented to an incumbent of this position that are not included in this position description. Position descriptions are subject to on-going changes so as to ensure the organization operates effectively.