Director of Admissions, Som - Baltimore, United States - Johns Hopkins University

Mark Lane

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Mark Lane

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Description

The mission of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Enrollment Management organization is to recruit and enroll an outstanding community of diverse students who are committed to excellence and leadership in patient care, education, and research.


Reporting to the Assistant Dean of Enrollment Management, the director will influence and implement the SOM's data-driven admissions and recruitment programs and processes, with the intention of recruiting, evaluating, selecting, and matriculating highly talented and diverse students from around the world.

This leader will bring strategic and progressive leadership as well as effective oversight and management to the Office of Admissions in the SOM and will collaborate extensively with other Enrollment Management colleagues.

The Director is expected to foster and facilitate a data-informed admissions environment committed to regular and recurring refinements of admissions processes while supervising the MD Admissions staff.


Specific Duties & Responsibilities

  • General Operations of the SOM's MD admissions processes_
  • In consultation with other Enrollment Management leadership, establish Admissions' goals and objectives and determine appropriate policies, methods, and criteria to achieve them. Develop and implement an annual recruitment plan for assigned programs and populations of students.
  • Ensure alignment with Financial Aid strategies and approaches.
  • Develop and promote the School's student diversity and inclusion goals throughout the entire enrollment process that reflects to the extent possible the composition of the patients they will likely serve and/or who may benefit from their scientific contributions.
  • Provide the dean's office, and other administrators with detailed admissions data and reports
  • Working with the Office of Institutional Technology (OIT), manages the admissions office's annual cycle prep, data management planning, and execution of key activities in the process utilizing various admissions and CRM platforms.
  • Interacts with appropriate staff regarding technical issues.
  • Provides thought leadership, stays abreast of current research, and recommends best practices within medical education student recruitment and enrollment strategies.
  • Ensure that admissions activities are compliant with federal and state regulations, accreditation standards, and national best practices.
  • Recruitment Functions_
  • Present and promote the JHUSOM MD program to attract domestic and international prospective students at virtual, oncampus, and offcampus events, including but not limited to, open house programs, information sessions, MD graduate & professional fairs, and oneonone meetings/interviews.
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues in the Office of Admissions as well as faculty, staff, and administration in addressing diversity and inclusion outreach and recruitment challenges and opportunities.
  • Ensure JHUSOM is building and nurturing relationships with diverse and inclusive educational partners, including Historically Black Colleges & Universities, Hispanic-Serving institutions, and other universities (e.g. prehealth advisors), national/local organizations, and professional associations to build a diverse pipeline of prospective students.
  • Communicate with prospective students via a variety of modes and modalities, maintaining connections and responding to questions and inquiries. Oversee the release of the Admissions Committee's decisions, ensuring they are relayed to applicants accurately and in a timely manner in close coordination with financial aid.
  • Manage the development and implementation of all yield events.
  • Plan, coordinate, and lead event programming efforts for the admitted student Second Look Weekends (SLW).
  • Responsible for managing the SLW committee comprised of current students and JHM staff. Ensures committee stays within set SLW budget
  • Marketing Communications Planning_
  • Develop and maintain marketing strategies for students throughout the entire enrollment cycle via Slate CRM.
  • Collaborate with central Marketing & Communications (M&C) for promotion of various recruitment events.
  • Manage the MD admissions webpage(s) and partners with Marketing & Communication on webpage edits/revisions.
  • Provide guidance and oversight for social media related to the School of Medicine and the MD Program.
  • Initiate new marketing opportunities as appropriate with M&C colleagues.
  • Data Collection, Reporting, and Analysis_
  • Lead efforts to compile historical data, international/regional/national trends, and AAMC enrollment data to determine effective recruitment strategies.
  • Foster and facilitate a strong working relationship with the Sr. Data Analyst to create robust data analysis of admissions and enrollment data for continuous datainformed processes within Admissions.
  • Oversee Slate reports and queries of the MD Admissions Office to provide timely updates to leaders at SOM. Work with the Sr. Data Analyst

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