Pennsylvania Senior Regional Admissions Counselor

• Represent George Mason University to a wide and diverse audience in high schools, community colleges and at college fair programs, prospective freshmen, transfer students, and their families throughout the state of Pennsylvania;
• Maintain relationships with secondary school counselors and community college counselors;
• Correspond with prospective students and their families;
• Connect with Mason alumni and parents;
• Organize various admission activities;
• Participate fully in the evaluation of applications and selection of the incoming class;
• Attend college fairs/nights and make individual visits to high schools and community colleges in the surrounding area and states within the region during the fall and spring of each year;
• Organize and supervise local area receptions for prospective students in the fall, and yield events for accepted students in coordination with Spotlight Days;
• Manage electronic recruitment correspondence;
• Arrange and conduct individual interviews with students as well as organize regional group information sessions for students, parents, high school counselors and community college counselors;
• Tele-counsel with prospective students to encourage campus visits as well as apply for admission; and maintain appropriate follow-up communication with these students and their families regarding the status of their applications for admission and financial aid;
• Actively participate in various university committees;
• Work closely with the Undergraduate Admissions leadership team to ensure that Mason is making every effort to attract and enroll a diverse student population from the region;
• Work closely with the Admissions Office Travel Coordinator when organizing recruiting visits and handling work-related expenses;
• Join, and participate in, regional admissions and school counselor associations to build solid working relationships;
• Work with the Alumni Office to cultivate a local alumni group to assist and support the college's recruitment efforts in the region; and
• Other duties to be assigned by the Admissions Leadership team.

• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required;
• Willingness and ability to travel extended periods and work extended hours, including evenings and weekends;
• Demonstrated oral and written communications skills;
• Demonstrated attention to detail and ability to complete administrative tasks autonomously;
• Exemplary decision-making skills in the absence of direct supervision;
• Demonstrated organizational skills;
• Technologically literate, comfortable with social media and learning new software;
• Self-motivated, eager to learn and take on new assignments;
• Ability to independently manage and complete work assignments without close supervision is mandatory;
• Ability to set up a home office in southeastern Pennsylvania, or in the immediate surrounding area;
• Ability to safely and independently lift 20 pounds; and
• Must currently possess an appropriate, active, valid motor vehicle operator's license that meets all of GMU's requirements for operating state vehicles and equipment under Mason's Vehicle Use Policy 1411 . The Office of Risk Management reserves the right to review the driver's licenses and Motor Vehicle Reports (MVRs) of all candidates selected with employment contingent upon a favorable review.

• Master's degree;
• Bilingual;
• Knowledge of high schools and community colleges in Pennsylvania; and
• Demonstrated experience in higher education, high school counseling, public relations, or sales.

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