Recruitment&admissions Officer

**Schedule**

Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm

35 hours per week

Hybrid Working Arrangment

**Education Level**
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study

**Career Level**
Requires 3 years of relevant experience

**Job Description Number**
JD00690

One of three professional schools within McMaster’s Faculty of Health Sciences, the School of Nursing offers undergraduate and graduate programs. For 75 years, McMaster’s School of Nursing has delivered nursing education programs that have produced generations of professional nurses who are critical thinkers and contribute to nursing practice, research, education, policy, and administration.

The School of Nursing has moved to a centralized Consortium admissions model and is seeking an individual with experience in Undergraduate admissions and recruitment. To be successful in this position, the incumbent must be able to oversee established operational and administrative processes within the undergraduate admissions unit.

**Job Summary**:
**Purpose and Key Functions**:

- Develop recruitment and admissions strategic plans and objectives.
- Research, identify, and make recommendations for solutions to business problems involving streamlining and simplifying business processes.
- Solve diverse and unusual problems by analyzing information where considerable interpretation of processes is required.
- Develop and lead training on admission policies and processes in an effort to increase compliance with established policies.
- Design and develop learning and training material for staff in graduate programs.
- Complete annual needs assessments and write business plans which include the development of recruitment, admission, and strategic plans and objectives.
- Prepare recommendations and implement process improvements to accommodate a diverse and expanding pool of applicants.
- Make independent admission decisions to admit or refuse applicants to University programs based on established prerequisites, University guidelines, and enrolment numbers.
- Review non-standard admissions with Assistant Dean.
- Based on historical student information, prepare recommendations for admission and academic requirements.
- Scrutinize financial support packages to ensure compliance with established guidelines.
- Scrutinize admissions documentation and calculate grade-point averages to ensure admissions standards are adhered to.
- Research and document information on unknown international institutions.
- Research and conduct analysis of comparable education systems domestically and internationally.
- Review trends in international curricula and accreditations of institutions.
- Ensure offer letters comply with established scholarship regulations.
- Write and modify queries to extract data from student information system in order to capture registration and admissions problems.
- Provide advice to program administrators and faculty regarding complex and changing School of Nursing policies.
- Provide guidance on new program development with respect to admissions and recruitment.
- Conduct intensive research and liaise with external partners in order to provide advice to program staff and faculty on international academic equivalencies.
- Liaise with faculty regarding funding requirements and scholarship opportunities for special graduate student segments.
- Liaise regularly with stakeholders across campus on various administrative processes such as University Health Insurance Plan, registration, and student accounts.
- Negotiate terms of agreement for a variety of recruiting events and with vendors for promotional giveaways, advertisement, and publication renewals.
- Schedule faculty, staff and students to provide coverage for various recruiting events and ensure that they have received the appropriate training, recruitment and presentation materialsrequired.
- Coordinate editing and production deadlines for marketing and admission material, as well as website content related to admissions, recruitment and program information.
- Develop budget proposals and prepare cost-benefit analyses.
- Provide budget plans and projections.
- Host information sessions for prospective applicants.
- Analyze travel reports and admissions statistics to develop school visit plans.
- Attend inter-university meetings and provide feedback regarding best[1]practices.
- Monitor and benchmark against graduate admissions practice at other Universities.
- Update, maintain and verify information in a variety of databases.

**Requirements**:
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study.

Requires 3 years of relevant experience.

**Assets**:
Strong experience in meeting multiple high priority deadlines in a busy environment.

Previous experience working in environments with a student-centric focus.

Strong attention to detail.

**Additional Information**:
Database expertise including use of complex formulas in excel and the ability to identify errors in information.

Knowledge of evaluation and statist