Per Scholas is an organization dedicated to driving mobility and opportunity through tech training. The Manager, Recruitment & Admissions is responsible for implementing an inclusive admissions process, managing outreach, and ensuring enrollment benchmarks are met for training programs in the Bronx.
Responsibilities
- Manage a rigorous outreach and admissions process throughout its entire lifecycle, ensuring targets and benchmarks for recruitment and admissions are achieved
- Receive and process candidate applications, including conducting information sessions, administering relevant assessments, participating in face-to-face candidate interviews
- Communicate with candidates while quickly building rapport and trust
- Leverage social media and email campaigns to attract and connect with potential learners
- Attend to all administrative tasks to ensure compliance with licensing regulations
- Conduct presentations and administer off-site information sessions
- Attend networking events to increase Per Scholas’ visibility in the community to recruit prospective learners with an interest and passion for careers in the IT industry
- Lead and manage direct reports, fostering professional growth, accountability, and collaboration
- Make referrals to supportive services and/or alternative programs for applicants, as appropriate
- Utilize Salesforce to track learner candidates through the admissions process, noting assessments, interview outcomes and workflow status
- Create reporting tools to track the admissions pipeline by cohort to ensure enrollment benchmarks are successfully reached
- Track all required enrollment solutions in Salesforce for each launched cohort
Skills
- Thrive in a fast past environment while maintaining a high degree of precision, organization and attention to details
- Ability to balance learner-centric lens and approach with any other client driven pressure
- Excellent written, communication, and follow-up skills to coordinate with applicants, team members, instructors, management and other stakeholders
- Ability to prioritize, execute tasks, and remain focused in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new software, platforms, and digital tools
- Comfortable in working with CRM systems
- Experience in recruitment, tech recruiting preferred
- Salesforce preferred
- 1-3 years of experience managing and developing others, preferred
- A people leader who cares about and invests in direct reports, sets them up to succeed and supports their future growth
Company Overview
Per Scholas is proud to celebrate 30 years of fostering economic mobility by giving individuals from diverse backgrounds access to high-growth tech careers. It was founded in 1995, and is headquartered in Bronx, NY, US, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.perscholas.org/.