Student Recruitment & Enrollment Manager

• Achieve 100% Enrollment on the 10th Day of School: Ensure all grade levels (K-8) are fully enrolled by the 10th day of school, meeting specific enrollment goals.
• Recruitment Strategies: Develop and execute recruitment strategies targeting families with school-aged children within a 5-mile radius of the campus.
• Marketing & Outreach: Implement a comprehensive marketing plan, including social media campaigns, community outreach, off-site presentations, and partnerships with local organizations such as daycare centers, housing authorities, and community centers.
• Cold Calling & Community Engagement: Actively make cold calls, attend community events, and conduct neighborhood walks to generate interest and recruit families to apply.
• Application Support: Support families through the application process, offering assistance with both online and paper applications and providing follow-up calls to ensure registration is completed.
• Coordinate Open Houses: Organize bi-weekly campus open houses to engage with prospective families and provide school tours.

Enrollment Milestones & Management

• Track & Monitor Enrollment Metrics: Track all stages of the enrollment process, from applications to registration, ensuring that all milestones are completed on time and according to goals.
• Re-registration & Follow-up: Oversee the re-registration process by sending reminders and following up with families to ensure 100% completion.
• Orientation Planning & Execution: Coordinate and manage all aspects of student orientation, ensuring smooth logistics, content delivery, and 100% attendance.
• New Family Onboarding: Ensure all new families attend a new family onboarding event within the first 10 days of the school year.
• Recapture Campaigns: Develop and execute campaigns to re-engage families who have withdrawn during the year to meet new student persistence goals.

Marketing & Communications

• Brand Awareness: Promote Etoile Academy through social media posts, community events, and informational fairs.
• Local Partnerships: Identify and build relationships with local community organizations, businesses, and other partners to support student recruitment efforts.
• Parent & Family Engagement: Create a series of engagement initiatives to maintain strong relationships with current and prospective families, ensuring they are informed and actively involved in the school community.

Student Retention & Persistence

• New Student Persistence: Ensure that 90% of new students persist through the school year by developing personalized engagement strategies and keeping families connected.
• Acclimation & Integration: Lead efforts to help new students and families integrate into the Etoile Academy culture through specific onboarding activities, parent meetings, and student programs.

Team Management & Leadership

• Team Supervision & Development: Manage and develop the student recruitment team, ensuring clear performance goals are set and achieved.
• Performance Monitoring: Track and evaluate weekly and monthly recruitment metrics to ensure alignment with school enrollment goals.
• Training & Accountability: Provide ongoing training and coaching to student recruiters on effective recruitment strategies, communication skills, and enrollment processes.

General Responsibilities

• Event Coordination: Support and manage logistics for community outreach events, including school fairs, open houses, and other recruitment initiatives.
• Data Management: Maintain and track all recruitment data in a central system, ensuring all applications, interactions, and communications are recorded.
• Collaboration with Campus Leaders: Work closely with campus leaders and the COO to align recruitment efforts with school goals and adjust strategies as needed.

We look for team members that embody our REACH values. This includes the characteristics below.

• Open to sharing and implementing feedback with reverence and professionalism for the work (Respect).
• Authentic care for student results and effective teaching (Excellence).
• Setting a higher bar for yourself and others each day (Ambition).
• Honest contribution and collaboration to the community (Community).
• Do what is needed to achieve results (Hard Work).
• Believes in education as?a profession?and holds oneself to a high level of conduct and professionalism

Qualifications

• Fluency in English and Spanish preferred
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to establish and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships with a diverse staff
• Alignment with the school’s mission to ensure that every student in grades K through 8 has the academic and character foundation necessary to succeed in high school, graduate from college, and pursue ambitious life goals.
• Demonstrated application of Étoile Academy’s core values: Respect, Excellence, Ambition, Community, and Hard work.

Étoile Academy does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization’s compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact HR at 713.265.8657.