Assistant Dean of JD Admissions

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Posted Job Title

Assistant Dean of JD Admissions

Job Profile Title

Director D, Student Services, Admissions

Job Description Summary

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is one of the nation’s oldest and most distinguished law schools. The School offers a unique approach, incorporating cross-disciplinary legal education, a distinctly collaborative environment, and an innovative curriculum to enrich student learning. The small and highly interdisciplinary faculty achieves scholarly excellence while emphasizing a shared effort to advance understanding of the law. The result is an intellectual community that bridges traditional boundaries and disciplines within a renowned internal culture of collegiality, making the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School an extraordinarily supportive academic community for all its members.
The Assistant Dean of JD Admissions articulates and implements a vision of existing and potential opportunities to recruit exceptionally talented students to The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s JD program. The Assistant Dean of JD Admissions (“Assistant Dean”) develops recruitment and matriculation strategies that demonstrate imagination and creativity, using the Law School’s distinctive strengths to attract and enroll JD classes of 240-250 students annually.

Reporting to the Associate Dean for Strategic Enrollment and working closely with the Dean, faculty, and JD Admissions staff colleagues, the Assistant Dean manages a staff of talented admissions colleagues and collaborates with the Assistant Dean of Financial Aid to build and enroll exceptional classes to the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

Job Description

Strategic

• Collaborating with the Dean, the Associate Dean for Enrollment Strategy, and faculty, describe long- and short-term JD recruitment and matriculation goals and explicit strategies to achieve them. 
• Making innovative use of research and technologies in the recruitment and matricul