Milton Recruitment Coordinator

**Date**:Sep 3, 2025 **Location**: Milton, CA **Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University **Department**: Enrolment Services **Job Type**: Continuing **Full-time/Part-time**: Full Time (>=1249 hrs/year) **Campus**: Milton **Reports to**:Manager, Canadian Student Recruitment **Employee Group**: PAG **Application Deadline**:September 12th 2025 **Requisition ID**:10147 Wilfrid Laurier University is a leading multi-campus university that excels at educating with purpose. Through its exceptional employees, students, researchers, leaders, and educators, Laurier has built a reputation as a world-class institution known for its rich student experience, academic excellence, and global impact. With a commitment to Indigenization and commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, Laurier’s thriving community has a place for everyone. Laurier has more than 19,000 students and 2,100 faculty and staff across campuses in Waterloo and Brantford, as well locations in Kitchener and Milton. The university is committed to providing an inclusive workplace, a flexible work policy and employing a workforce that is reflective of local and national demographics. Our locations are situated on the traditional territories of the Neutral, Anishnawbe, and Haudenosaunee peoples. We recognize the unique heritages of Indigenous peoples and support their intentions to preserve and express their distinctive Indigenous cultures, histories, and knowledge through academic programming and co-curricular activities. Laurier’s Centre for Indigegogy is one example of how Laurier honours Indigenous knowledge. **Position Summary**: At Laurier, we are a community. It’s what brings our students here and what keeps our people here. As an educational institution, we inspire lives of leadership and purpose in our student community. As an employer, we seek, foster and value the same qualities of leadership and purpose in our employee community. Reporting to the Manager of Canadian Student Recruitment, Recruitment & Admissions, the Milton Recruitment Coordinator works as a member of the Recruitment & Admissions (R&A) team to ensure the enrolment management goals of the university at large are met. This team member will execute and implement strategic plans to advance the position of Wilfrid Laurier University nationally and internationally as a destination for high calibre students. The Milton Recruitment Coordinator will coordinate and execute a balanced mix of in person, out-bound and virtual recruitment events and relationship building opportunities. The incumbent will have an extensive understanding of institutional knowledge in order to effectively engage with audiences of varying sizes and formats and is responsible for the supervision of the Milton Ambassador Team - who delivers campus tours and create a positive first impression of the campus. This position requires flexible hours including evenings, weekends, and overnight stays. **Accountabilities**: **Planning and Analysis** - Participate in annual recruitment training gathering extensive knowledge of the university, public speaking and presentation practice and general knowledge of admission requirements and procedures. - Using available data and research, make recommendations on recruitment and conversion activities including outbound travel, campus events, and virtual engagements. - Support in the coordination of bookings and logistics for outbound student recruitment engagements including in-person travel and virtual sessions. - Submits data retrieved from interactions with students into the CRM and utilizes contacts to stay connected to prospects and applicants, and when appropriate submits expense reports and receipts. - Stay apprised of digital recruitment opportunities that Laurier could leverage to create awareness to prospective students (ie. virtual/digital events, external blogs and podcasts.) - Extensive data mining of CRM data and usage to recommend and implement continued improvements to the practice of student recruitment. - Provide feedback, content, communication support, ideas and recommendations for improving the Laurier brand, recruitment communication and marketing collateral, events and general recruitment initiatives. **Implementation of Recruitment/Conversion Activities** - Travel independently or in groups, speaking to prospective students, families, guidance counsellors, school administrators in both formal and conversational settings. - Participate in, and support the organization of all campus events such as Open Houses, Outreach school visits, the Ontario Universities’ Fair, virtual fairs and presentations and other fairs/events. - Guide, advise and respond to all prospective students, guidance counsellors, and other partners from prospect stage to offer confirmation. - Coordinate and support recruitment and conversion events from on campus, off campus and virtual. - Responsible for communicating key points and addressing each student’s interests through eac