Elve Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Proud to spearhead strategic program operations across the Chicagoland region, impacting over 2,000 students while ensuring seamless alignment with organizational goals. By forging strong partnerships with high schools, colleges, and community organizations, we’ve secured critical resources—resulting in a 30% increase in private scholarships awarded, totaling $5 million. Leading a high-performing team of 16, I’ve fostered a collaborative and accountable culture, which has driven a 10% increase in student engagement and college persistence rates. Additionally, by championing quality assurance and evaluation initiatives, we’ve achieved 90% program fidelity, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery across all sites. #Leadership #Education #StudentSuccess #Teamwork #Impact

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Developed strategies and activities targeting focus areas and KPIs, serving in a director capacity to identify how to execute and attain milestones given by the national office.• Engaged with students and staff within the school and on college campuses, effectively understanding needs and employing grassroots initiatives to bring continuity and structure into siloed teams.

Greater Chicago Area

• Drove the recruitment and admissions pipeline, overseeing four direct reports to ensure that applicants were completing each step with a consistent flow of applicants throughout the process. • Outlined strategy systems to execute admissions, recruitment, and applicant data tracking, ultimately preserving high-level support and expectations within a fast-paced environment. • Administered Salesforce and Tableau applications to enhance tracking and analysis of student data; employed a data-driven approach to evaluate and forecast based on critical insights. • Served as a coach and mentor, providing tactical guidance, assistance, and training to ensure teams achieved admissions operational goals and objectives. • Leveraged exemplary communication and coordination skills to collaborate with leadership teams throughout the implementation of long-term information management and technology strategies.

Greater Chicago Area

Aurora, Illinois

• Performed continuous quality service while protecting and promoting the brand image and reputation, effectively exceeding client expectations to meet headcount-staffing needs for all shifts.• Supervised scheduling, time clock, and payroll for 300+ employees by creating and managing daily, weekly, and monthly reports and rosters. • Maintained an active on-site presence, engaging with employees and forming relationships that drove morale, decreased turnover, and improved overall job satisfaction. • Upheld high level customer service and monitored production, shift times, and the utilization of effective methods throughout the onboarding procedure to prevent downtime or unfilled shifts.

Palos Hills

• Represented the college brand and provided students with the institutional information, guidelines, policies, and procedures needed for new and returning enrollment, including course requirements, registration, and timelines to meet degree programs. • Answered all student and parent questions, serving as a main point of contact throughout programs of study; created a mentoring program where students helped incoming pupils transition to college. • Channeled financial literacy workshops for incoming students to administer information on federal Satisfactory Academic Progress requirements.

Lisle, Il

• Fostered plans for students that had fallen behind on payments to ensure continued enrollment, liaising directly with financial aid and accounts to create programs that assisted throughout the process of pursuing scholarships and purchasing textbooks.

•Worked as a recruiter for students attending the City Colleges of Chicago•Managed a staff of two admission representatives to accomplish department goals and objectives•Developed, led, and implemented innovative marketing and recruiting strategies to attract underrepresented populations to Benedictine University through on and off campus events.•Provided ongoing performance reports to the Vice President of Enrollment that measured all recruitment efforts, which include but are not limited to applications, campus visits, attendance at recruitment events, tele-counseling and enrollments.•Created programs and strategies to increase retention and graduation rates.

•Developed and fostered relationships with students and parents through campus/high school visits, college fairs, and other recruitment events•Counseled students on academic plans, scholarships, financial aid, and course selection•Reviewed and evaluated transcripts, ACT/SAT scores, recommendation letters in a timely manner•Served as a member of the admissions, athletic, new hire training, and student workers committees

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Business Administration, Management & Operations

Master Of Science - Ms, Organizational Behavior

Coursework Toward

Master Of Education - Med, Higher Education Leadership

Coursework Toward