Admissions Coordinator

Description

ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW

STRIVE is a national leader in creating pathways to economic opportunity for predominantly low-income Black and Brown communities. Serving adults of all different ages, genders, races, and justice-involved backgrounds, STRIVE's proven model accelerates graduates toward career advancement and upward mobility. Since its founding in 1984, STRIVE has helped more than 80,000 graduates prepare for career success through their free programs. See the STRIVE Difference in this 3-minute video or learn more at strive.org. 

STRIVE operates in New York City and through licensed partners in cities across the country. In 2019, STRIVE embarked on an ambitious growth plan to expand our impact in current and new cities and opened STRIVE Atlanta in 2020. 

SUMMARY 

The admissions Coordinator will work as part of the Community Outreach & Engagement Team who have primary responsibility for engaging and creating community partnerships that drive admissions, process intake documents, generate revenue streams including community donations. The coordinator will work across New York programs to assist all programs in reaching their admission goals. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities:

• Work with all of the program      leads to assess their particular enrollment needs. 
• Facilitate weekly Information      Sessions for prospective enrollees 
• Provide      weekly reporting on Information Session attendance, application      submittals, and leads 
• Follow      up with information session attendees, new contacts and applications for      all programs
• Follow      up and Track youth 18-24 information session attendance and applications across      programs and report results on a weekly basis
• Reconcile Information Session      report with application report and provide outreach to anyone who failed      to submit an application and follow up with individuals that did not      attend
• Establish relationships with      targeted community groups that serve our specific population needs
• Seek out and attend community      events for recruitment purposes
• Coordinate and plan STRIVE recruitment      events
• Help maintain a community      partnership distribution list
• Work closely with the      Communications team for collateral materials and strategizing around      possible revenue leads
• Create opportunities for Alumni      to refer new students and or be ambassadors for recruitment purposes
• Determine which NYC service best      suits to serve individual’s needs then connect them to the appropriate      program 
• Assist with data entry into      Apricot, participant tracking      system
• Additional duties as required

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE 

· Experience forming community partnerships and asking for in-kind donations

· A minimum of 2 years of demonstrated experience working with populations with barriers to employment. This includes long term unemployment, light to medium touches with the criminal justice system, or with history of substance abuse. 

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills

· Accurate and detail-oriented

· Self-directed and motivated; able to work independently as well as collaboratively with a small team

· Microsoft Suite proficient (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

· Ability to handle high pressure and high-volume workload

· Professional demeanor

· Data analytical skills preferred

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this classification. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this classification, the employee must possess the physical capabilities to perform the following: ability to carry objects weighing up to 20 pounds, sitting, typing, reaching, handling, talking, hearing, seeing, standing, walking, stooping, and bending. While performing the duties of this classification, the employee works in an office setting where the noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

STRIVE considers applicants for all positions without regard to: race; color; religion; gender; national origin; age; sexual orientation; marital or veteran status; the presence of a medical condition, genetic information or handicap, unrelated to performing the tasks of the job; or any other legally protected status.