Graduate Student Admissions Officer, College of Information Sciences and Technology

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POSITION SPECIFICS

The College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST)seeks an Admissions Officer to primarily recruit for graduate programs (a single doctoral program and master's programs) to help meet our goals of attracting a high-quality and diverse graduate student body. This position will be a part of the team that also recruits undergraduate students and based on college needs may also assist with undergraduate recruitment.

Our master's programs include two in-residence M.S. programs - Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations and Informatics. Online we offer a Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations and a Master's of Enterprise Architecture and Business Transformation (MEA). We also offer several Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate (IUG) programs which bring IST undergraduate students into our graduate programs.

The Admissions Officer will liaise with the Associate Dean for Student Success, particularly for activities related to diversifying the applicant pool. The Admissions Officer will also work closely with the Graduate Programs staff, who manage the Graduate Recruiting Committee (GRC) for the doctoral program and the Masters Advisory and Recruitment Committee (MARC).

Specific responsibilities will include:

Pre-recruitment

• graduate program marketing including website and marketing literature content creation; monitoring and managing website and marketing literature updates and distribution

• collecting data helpful to recruitment including graduate student placement, time-to-completion, conducting focus groups with current graduate students to inform marketing and recruitment strategies

• developing and maintaining awareness of domestic and international markets for our graduate programs

• liaise with IST and PSU entities to help inform or coordinate marketing and recruitment including IST undergraduate recruiting, the Fox Graduate School, graduate student recruiters in PSU 'sister' colleges (Engineering, Smeal, EMS, Science, HHD), and Penn State Global

• liaise with IST and PSU entities helpful to recruiting a diverse applicant pool and graduate student population including IST Associate Dean for Student Success and the Fox Graduate School

Active Recruitment

• identify and attend graduate school career fairs and conferences that promote diverse graduate student populations (e.g., Tapia conference, PhD Project)

• lead and participate in on-campus recruitment activities

• provide outreach to applicants and admitted students

• answer inquiries from interest forms from World Campus and the IST website

• develop and run online information sessions for international graduate students

• maintain an updated list of FAQs for applicants

• participate in Graduate Programs tasks and activities as needed, including working with the Graduate Recruiting Committee (GRC) and the Masters Advisory and Recruiting Committee (MARC)

• periodically assist with undergraduate recruitment

MINIMUM EDUCATION, WORK EXPERIENCE & REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS

Work Modality:

This role blends in person and remote work and includes travel to conferences and other universities to support student recruitment efforts.

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