Senior Student Recruitment Officer

Duties and Responsibilities

The Senior Student Recruitment Officer’s duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Create a robust and creative recruitment system to meet the university’s recruitment goals.
• Undertake a range of professional and specialized tasks to build and sustain collaborative relationships with a network of internal and external contacts, particularly in provinces for student recruitment purposes.
• Supervise the Student Recruitment Officers, provide them with necessary coaching and professional feedback with customer focused approach.
• Travel with other admission and recruitment team to provinces for recruitment and testing.
• Work with provincial government administrations and partners to facilitate the recruitment team’s visit to high schools and obtain all necessary permits and arrangements.
• Sustain strong working relationship with all departments within the university, particularly faculty, AUAF Alumni Relations Office and utilize their resources, feedback and contacts for student recruitment purposes.
• Draft, formulate and implement a comprehensive Student Recruitment Plan to meet the recruitment target for the university’s Undergraduate, Graduate and the Academy Programs.
• Attend meetings and deliver presentations to potential business partners and donors about the university’s admission procedures, scholarship and financial aid policies and opportunities.
• Assist the admission and recruitment team in developing innovative student recruitment strategies and enrollment plans to attract and enroll more students with particular emphasis on female and provincial recruitment.
• Organize, manage and participate in all recruitment events, open houses, school fairs, information sessions, educational expos, school visits& tours and off-campus events for the purpose of student recruitment.
• Build strong working relationships with key ministries and government departments such as Ministry of Education, Departments of Education and LLCs and learning centers in provinces to attract students for the university’s programs.
• Organize regular visual and in-person meetings and chats with students in districts in Kabul and provinces to provide them information about the university’s educational programs, scholarships and financial aid opportunities.
• Continually visit private and public high schools in Kabul and observe key dates to launch the university’s student recruitment campaigns and testing.
• Propose and maintain an accurate data system to store and effectively analyze the data for the university’s senior management for effective decision-making regarding enrollment targets, financial aid allocation and future strategic plans.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Skills

• Excellent communications, marketing and presentation skills.
• Customer services skills and experiences
• problem solving and decision making
• The capacity to work in partnership with colleagues and clients in identifying opportunities, developing responses and solutions.
• Data management and reporting skills.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Communications or relevant field.
• Minimum of two years of relevant work experience.
• English language proficiency in writing, reading and speaking.
• Ability to speak and understand the national languages
• Strong data management and reporting skills.
• Able to multi-task, excellent organizational skills, ability to work independently, good problem solving abilities, and possess strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Trustworthy and good understanding of handling sensitive materials and information

Job Location

Afghanistan - Kabul
AF AF 12

Education:

Bachelors Degree, Business Administration

Submission Guideline

Applicants must submit their resume and cover letter in one document as PDF or MS electronically. Applications are accepted in English only. Please include “Senior Student Recruitment Officer” in the subject line of the email.
Application Deadline: All applications must be submitted on or before October 25th, 2018. After reviews of the applicants, interviews for the finalists will be set up in Kabul on the AUAF Campus.

Submission Email

nationaljobs@auaf.edu.af