recruiter Standish, ME
Job description
The Admissions Recruiter will support the department of Admissions by:
- Developing a recruitment territory while maintaining an awareness of developments within the territory and establishing long term relationships to meet enrollment goals
- Engaging in the recruitment of top student prospects (first-year students)
Reading and evaluating (first-year student) admission files; and performing data entry for the Office of Admissions
- Bachelor’s degree required
- One or more years of professionally related experience
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
- Familiarity with computer software programs; proven ability to work in a team-oriented, multi-task, goal attaining environment
- Ability to maintain a positive attitude and promote the benefits of a small, Catholic College sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy
- Able to work with a wide range of people
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Comfortable making presentations to groups
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English
- Ability to perform multiple concurrent tasks while maintaining a personable attitude with attentiveness to detail
- Ability to be creative while dealing with stress associated with goal attainment and meeting deadlines; ability to set appropriate priorities
- Tolerates work related stress effectively and maintains self-control/professionalism
Schedule:
Full-time salaried/exempt position required to work a varied schedule. Evening, weekend work, and travel is required.
Exempt employees are eligible to accrue and use 6 weeks of time off per year.
About Saint Joseph’s College
Applicants must be willing to support the mission and core values of Saint Joseph’s College of Maine.
Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy, Saint Joseph's College is Maine's only Catholic college. We offer to our 2000 on-campus and online students a unique mix of undergraduate, graduate, and non-degree programs with a strong liberal arts foundation. Our beautiful 474-acre Sebago Lake campus in Standish, Maine is located 30 minutes northwest of Portland, ME, and 2 hours North of Boston, MA. Fielding 21 intercollegiate varsity teams, the College also boasts a competitive Division III athletics program.
Additionally, the College provides certificates and undergraduate and advanced degrees for thousands more working adults who reside throughout the United States and in more than 20 other countries through an online learning program. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.
Saint Joseph's is nationally recognized for its successful integration of community service in its classroom learning and its sustainability performance. In 2015, the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions on campus and within local, regional, and global communities.
In 2022, the College earned STARS Gold rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) in recognition of its campus-wide sustainability achievements. This program is the most widely recognized in the world for reporting comprehensive information related to a college’s sustainability accomplishments.
Saint Joseph’s College of Maine embraces justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion as important cornerstones for academic excellence, student success, institutional and community resilience, and as vital expressions of our Catholic identity, Mercy Charism, and Core Values. We commit ourselves to nurturing highly competent and deeply compassionate leaders ready to serve in a vulnerable world.
Review of applications will begin immediately. Please complete our online application by clicking on Apply Now. Include your resume and cover letter, and read and sign the Pre-Employment Statement. Offers are contingent upon successfully passing a background check.
Saint Joseph’s College is an EEO employer and applications from members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. We consider all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person’s race (including traits associated with race, including hair texture, Afro hairstyles, and protective hairstyles), color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, genetic information, military status, sex or gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mental or physical disability, familial status, protected whistleblower activity, previous assertion of workers’ compensation claim, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Specific questions may be emailed to: [email protected] or call 207-893-7757.
Mission Statement
Saint Joseph's College of Maine, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy and animated by the vision of Catherine McCauley, is a Catholic college in the liberal arts tradition distinguished by its welcoming community. We foster an on-going dialogue between faith and reason so as to prepare our learners to live meaningful lives that improve the world around them.Vision Statement
In fulfillment of its mission, Saint Joseph's College of Maine will be a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative community that forms individuals who practice humility, justice, and compassion, as Jesus did, in solidarity with the marginalized.
