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San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, California, United States

As the Admissions Director I designed and managed the application process for prospective students and families, from strategic outreach and recruitment efforts to enrollment and matriculation.

San Diego, California, United States

The Student Success Counselor (SSC) is responsible for counseling and advising on complex issues regarding student academic progress and wellness. This position has responsibility and accountability for increasing graduation and retention rates and decreasing cohort defaultrates. This requires an in-depth understanding of academic information, registration, and support services in order to facilitate the direct impacts to the University’s retention and graduation rates. The Student Success Counselor is expected to be an expert on academic policies, student support services, and degree progress. The Student Success Counselor communicates with campus and community resources to promote collaboration and improve services to students.

Greater San Diego Area

Facilitate student development, recruitment and matriculation for the Master of Arts in Christian Ministry programs. Building and Emergency Response Coordinator. Provide administrative, event planning, and financial oversight to the Wesleyan Center and the Honors Program. Master of Arts in Christian Ministry Responsibilities:Hire and pay adjuncts.Train adjuncts on how to use Workday and classroom installed videoconferencing.Organize and schedule MACM courses.Work closely with several departments on campus to best recruit, serve, and retain students; this includes Records, Student Financial Services, Marketing, and Graduate Admissions. For intensive courses coordinate details with faculty, request room setup with facilities, order catering, advertise seminars and maintain communication with guests speakers and attenders. Assist students with registration and course advising. Attend graduate admissions recruiting events.Assist Marketing in developing marketing materials for current and new programs. Plan and execute graduation receptions.

Greater San Diego Area

Manage adult and graduate student recruitment. Identify potential students for all GPS programs. Participate in off-campus recruiting activities. Evaluate applications for admissions according to institutional criteria. Provide reports, updates, and any other pertinent information. Participate fully in Information Sessions and all admissions events. Assist with the coordination of orientation and registration events. Function as a team player within the Graduate and Professional Studies Admissions organization to assist the team in the achievement of the overall enrollment goals each semester. Represent graduate programs at recruitment and marketing events. Develop new recruitment opportunities for adult and graduate programs. Advise academic leadership regarding admissions policies, trouble shoot issues related to new students and academic areas and make recommendations for improvement in assigned graduate programs. Train and mentor new graduate and professional studies program advisors. Research, analyze, and implement various projects, as assigned. Coordinate implementation of marketing campaigns utilizing various media outlets.

San Diego

International Ministries is a department within Spiritual Development. For the past three decades International Ministries has facilitated short-term mission programs for over 3,000 students, faculty, and alumni who have served alongside hosts in over 70 world areas. My work involves managing most of the travel logistics for a variety of programs within International Ministries. I have the honor of supervising several talented student employees, interns, and volunteers. My team oversees our department's financial processing and record keeping. I also maintain regular communication regarding our programs with prospective students, current students, alumni, parents, vendors, and others. Every year I help organize a committee and delegate responsibilities for an annual giving campaign that helps raise upwards of $16,000 that benefits one of our partner's ministry.

Plnu- Mission Valley Regional Center

PLNU’s Mission Valley Regional Center is the most diverse of the five regional campuses offering high-quality teaching credentials, certificates, degree completion programs, and flexible graduate programs in a variety of fields including education, leadership, nursing, business, theology, Christian ministry, kinesiology, and biology. As the graduate admissions assistant I processed student applications, transcripts and other admissions related documents using the Jenzabar database. One of my favorite tasks was developing reports on excel using pivot tables or Argos reports that demonstrated current student enrollment, recruitment statistics, and marketing effectiveness. With previous website management experience, I assisted web developers with maintenance and quality assurance for all the graduate regional centers’ web pages. I was privileged to train several new hires including the admissions systems coordinator and admissions counselors.

Center For International Development

The Center for International Development serves as a resources for PLNU students who want to use sustainable business practices to address issues of global poverty. As a student office manager my role was to train and oversee up to three student assistants. Dr. Gailey, the director, gave me autonomy and trusted me with several varied projects. I oversaw and reported on the Center’s finances to ensure the budget was within healthy parameters. Other financial duties included support raising and receipting donations. I was also privileged to interact and help maintain donor relations. Other responsibilities included maintaining the center’s website. One of my most favorite activities was event planning both locally and internationally. I helped coordinate logistics for building trips in Armenia and Mexico. Some of the logistics included hosting speakers, marketing, mass mailings, recruiting volunteers, merging name badges, centerpieces, coordinating catering, billing, and welcoming guests.

San Pedro, Dominican Republic And Cap-Haitien, Haiti

Documented micro-loans for both Hope International and Esperanza InternationalPosted journals on Kiva.orgInterviewed clients Surveyed clients on effects of non-financial servicesTranslated written documents and conversationsAssisted loan officers with loan collection and training

Master’S Degree, Organizational Leadership

Program focuses on: negotiation conflict management systems and strategic planning team building time management navigating organizational.

English To Spanish Translation Course

Bachelor'S Of Arts, International Development Studies

Activities and Societies: President of ALAS (Association of Latin American Students) 2008-2009 Microfinance club member 2007-2010 Student.

Certification

Activities and Societies: Courses: Intercultural Communication Chinese History Chinese I Tai Chi Chinese Painting Eastern Philosophy &.