Assistant Director for Recruitment PICCLO (Part-time)

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Posted Job Title

Assistant Director for Recruitment PICCLO (Part-time)

Job Profile Title

Associate Director C, Student Services, Graduate Programs - 01

Job Description Summary

The Assistant Director for Recruitment assists the Associate Director for Recruitment and Special Projects in leading, coordinating, and providing data analysis on recruitment and admissions for the International MPA (I-MPA)
program. Note: This is a fully remote half-time position.

Now in its seventh year, the I-MPA is an intensive, one-year, on-campus graduate professional degree program of the College of Arts and Sciences (LPS), a unit of the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS), delivered via Fox Leadership International (FLI), a unit of the Partnership for Innovation, Cross-Sector Collaboration, Leadership, and Organization (PICCLO). In 2024, PICCLO-FLI faculty and staff reviewed more than 1,500 I-MPA applications, interviewed more than 500 I-MPA applicants, and certified more than I-MPA 100 students for graduation.

Job Description

The Assistant Director for Recruitment co-reviews all applications; participates in three-quarters of all candidate interviews; assists in anti-melt efforts with Mandarin-speaking applicants who accept and deposit. 

Briefing the faculty director, associate director, and members of the I-MPA senior staff on application screenings and interviews.  

Creating and updating tables and charts tracking recruitment and comparing year-over-year enrollment data. Coordinating information sessions with program instructors.  

Job Responsibilities

• Screening all applications; identifying and ranking the most qualified candidates for admission;   identifying a subset of qualified applicants with educational, experiential, or legal backgrounds relevant to the program’s class-wide exercises on global leadership and problem-solving, in particular its class-wide capstone project on eld