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Chicago, Il, Us

Monmouth, Illinois, United States

Monmouth, Illinois, United States

North Chicago, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Primary Responsibilities• Develop partnerships with program directors of six on-campus and six online programs in effort to meet enrollment goals and to improve student quality• Advise and influence program directors on implementing best practices in their application review, interview, and decision-making processes• Manage and coach two Admissions Counselors who also support on-campus and online programs in meeting enrollment goals and improving student quality• Serve as communications lead within the Office of Admissions and Enrollment• Manage library of standardized communications that are used for applicants in all stages of the application and admissions process• Support accurate data transfer and reporting processes between the CRM system, application systems, and the Student Information System• Strengthen interest of prospective students in Rosalind Franklin University by detailing the advantages of the university’s interprofessional mission in healthcareAccomplishments• Significantly reduced application processing time for MS in Physician Assistant Practice program (2,000+ applications per year) while reducing capacity for manual error through development of bulk processes• Created pre-review and holistic evaluation scoring systems for Physician Assistant program based on program priorities, which enabled program to better identify most qualified candidates for interview consideration• Coordinated with student affairs and financial services staff to create and deliver series of communications through Slate CRM that supported the onboarding of incoming students• Created and delivered presentation that familiarized interviewees with the EI (Emotional Intelligence) Inventory interview technique introduced by our Doctor of Nursing Practice program• Collaborated with marketing department to create print and electronic materials that met individual program needs for recruitment and outreach

Greater Chicago Area; Urbana-Champaign, Ill.

• Built relationships with prospective students by attending fairs, scheduling independent meetings, driving attendance of on- and off-campus events, and connecting prospects to current students and alumni so as to achieve application and enrollment goals for the full-time and part-time MBA programs• Planned special events that engaged prospective students with the Illinois MBA community, including the 2012 Scholarship Case Competition, which encouraged meaningful interactions between top recruits and alumni, students, and faculty. Resulted in a strong yield of participants who went on to be core leaders of the MBA Class of 2014• Directed the international student recruiting plan• Oversaw the scheduling of approximately 350 applicants per year for on-campus and online interviews• Directed the e-mail communications plan for full-time, part-time, and Executive MBA programs, including writing, editing, and formatting of the messages to be sent to targeted audiences• Developed automated reports in database that identified prospects and supported outreach efforts• Managed admissions operations for part-time and full-time MBA programs in 2013 while simultaneously training newly hired staff to manage the process the following admissions cycle• Managed three to five MBA student workers per year who assisted the admissions office in calling and e-mailing prospective students, answering e-mails, organizing campus visits and presentations, and tracking prospect interactions

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Built relationships with prospective students by attending fairs, scheduling independent meetings, driving attendance of on- and off-campus events, and connecting prospects to current students and alumni so as to achieve application and enrollment goals for the full-time and part-time MBA programs• Reviewed applications and conducted admissions interviews with the goal of finding applicants who would be successful students and influential alumni of the MBA programs• Created and planned special events that engaged prospective students with the Illinois MBA community• Served as editor for the student and alumni newsletter: Sixth Street Journal 2.0• Managed content on website by writing and updating information as well as editing website submissions from other staff members

My primary responsibility in this position was to create indexes for a variety of books--textbooks, technical manuals, medical books, history books. I also trained in-house employees and freelancers on the indexing process, serving as the primary resource for all indexing. My job also involved proofreading books that had been edited in-house.

Master Of Philosophy - Mphil, Medieval Language, Literature, And Culture

Activities and Societies: Club Basketball Team Club Golf Team

Bachelor Of Science, Secondary Education

Bachelor Of Arts, Speech Communication

Activities and Societies: Speech Honorary Society, Treasurer