Admissions Advisor

Admissions Advisor

About Queen's University
Queen’s University is the Canadian research intensive university with a transformative student learning experience. Here the employment experience is as diverse as it is interesting. We have opportunities in multiple areas of globally recognized research, faculty administration, engineering & construction, athletics & recreation, power generation, corporate shared services, and many more.

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Job Summary

**Job Description**:
**CORE DUTIES**:

- Provides advice and guidance to applicants, schools, students, and families on admission qualifications, policies, program details, and financial assistance programs.
- Identifies target markets for enrollment objectives and liaises with alumni network to encourage student recruitment.
- Participates in information sessions and student interviews in a variety of locales.
- Prepares targeted communications and presentations to support student recruitment and enrollment.
- Prepares statistical reports and interprets the results of recruiting trends, opportunities or potential issues.

**ADDITIONAL DUTIES**:

- Coordinates and implements processes and documentation that supports the program's accreditation.
- Other duties as required in support of the department and/or unit.

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**:
**EDUCATION**
- Three-year Community College Diploma or Three-Year Bachelor Degree, or equivalent.

**EXPERIENCE**
- More than 2 years and up to and including 3 years of experience.

**JOB KNOWLEDGE AND REQUIREMENTS**
- Practical and applied knowledge of specialized methods and processes that are typically acquired through a combination of technical or academic qualification and/or work experience.
- Provide consultation and advice on non-straightforward and/or complex issues.
- Interaction with others typically requires interpersonal skills and the ability to understand and influence.
- Adapt messages to meet the needs of the intended audience.
- Build relationships, trust and credibility.
- Manage own work and may train and review the work of casual employees, work study students and/or volunteers, to see commitments through to completion.
- Contribute to setting work priorities and direction, supporting the team in achieving goals and objectives.
- Participate in project team meetings and develop individual project plans.
- Lead procedural or technological change within a unit.
- Identify new problems and seek information and input to fully understand the cause of problems.
- Identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of work processes.
- Draw logical conclusions and provides opinions and recommendations.
- Research equity, diversity, accessibility and inclusion resources and best practices relevant to the job and unit operations in order to inform evidence-based planning.
- Commitment to principles of equity, diversity, accessibility, inclusion, Indigenization and human rights for equity deserving groups.

**SKILLS AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Interactions require the ability to identify and respond effectively to non-straightforward and/or difficult needs or requests. Instructs or develops instructional materials, which require consideration of the needs or requests of those interacting with the materials. Develops and cultivates rapport to build and foster trust, credibility and/or strategic relationships.
- Identifies and analyzes new and recurring problems and situations and/or information of moderate complexity. Searches for and interprets relevant information and selects or adapts the best solution from a range of alternatives and guidelines.
- Provides advanced specialized functional guidance to others that involves leading change.

And/or

Responsibility for supervising 1-9 casual employees, work study students and/or external suppliers/contractors (at any one time)

And/or

On-going responsibility for scheduling and assigning work, and monitoring and ensuring the completion of tasks of continuing/term employees (e.g. team lead responsibility), but does not have responsibility for supervising.
- Planning and coordination of unit/department-wide tasks, activities and/or projects such as special events, conferences, complex travel arrangements, budgets, reports, programs, training programs, student placements/exchanges, and calendars of senior staff.
- Results of decisions and actions have moderate impact extending beyond immediate work area, unit/department or function and/or moderate impact on service to staff, students and/or public.

**WORKING CONDITIONS AND EFFORT**:

- High physical effort. This includes periods of continuous and uninterrupted keyboarding or other finger and hand movements for at least 3.5 hours cumulatively per day for at least 17.5 hours per week, or regular lifting or moving objects over 20 lbs/9 kgs, or standing or walking for more than 3.5 hours per day.
- A moderate to high level of concentration. Tasks require significant understanding and manipul