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The Admissions & Recruitment Director provides vision and leadership to the School of Nursing's undergraduate and graduate admissions and student recruitment operation. This includes overall supervision of the admissions and recruitment processes for the Bachelor of Science - Nursing (BSN), the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), and the PhD degree programs, as well as a post-master's certificate program in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing. The Director oversees the admissions process from point-of-inquiry through enrollment, utilizing advanced and innovative recruitment and yield techniques and admissions processing technologies. This role directly supervises the Admissions and Recruitment team, comprised of four professional staff members. The Director reports to the Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and is an integral member of the Office of Academic Affairs, a unit that is deeply passionate about supporting student success and strives to create a diverse and inclusive community where students, staff, and faculty from all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities can thrive.

• 30% Directs unit admissions strategic planning initiatives and establishes recruitment and enrollment goals
• 25% Develops unit admissions operating policies and procedures to comply with regulations, institutional policies, and unit objectives
• 5% Develops the unit admissions budget
• 10% Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• 5% Serves as the school or college liaison to internal and external stakeholder groups providing admission information and representing the admissions interests of the school or college
• 5% Advises school or college leadership on unit enrollment planning and management
• 5% Serves as liaison to central university admission unit to align academic program admission with university enrollment efforts
• 15% Leads and develops strategy for the development, implementation, and maintenance of scholarships to ensure appropriate use of resources to align with and accomplish recruitment and retention goals and meet donor intent

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Required
Master's Degree
Specialization in college student personnel, higher education, educational leadership, or a related field preferred.

Required:
* At least three years of professional experience in college admissions and recruitment, academic affairs, student services, academic program management, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
* Ability to work independently and in a team setting to establish and maintain effective working relationships
* Commitment to fostering a respectful, effective, and collegial work environment through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion

Full Time: 100%

This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.

Ongoing/Renewable

Minimum $68,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
The expected salary for this position starts at a rate of $68,000 annually Actual pay will depend on experience and qualifications. In addition to base pay, the employee in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and other paid time off, competitive insurances and savings accounts, and employer sponsored retirement benefits.

For nearly 100 years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Nursing (SoN) has been committed to enhancing healthcare through teaching and research. With a mission to develop leaders for the profession and society; we make discoveries, enhance systems, and improve health through research, education, and practice for Wisconsin and beyond. The School of Nursing strives to achieve inclusive excellence and fosters an academic environment that welcomes diversity in students, faculty, staff, and the curriculum.

In the course of employment with the School of Nursing (SoN), dependent upon position and job responsibilities, employees may have access to PHI (personal health information) in order to fulfill the duties of their position. As part of the UW-Madison Health Care Component (HCC), all SoN faculty, staff, students, volunteers, and unpaid affiliates are required to complete HIPAA training as part of their orientation.

Successful candidates are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

A criminal background check will be conducted prior to hiring.

To apply for this position, please click Apply Now, from jobs.wisc.edu, to begin the application process. You will be asked to submit the following (PDF file format is strongly encouraged and preferred):
1) A letter of interest highlighting relevant work experience and referencing PVL #279024
2) A resume/CV

References will be requested from finalists only and are not required with initial application.
For questions regarding this position, please contact Katie Bleier, Assistant Dean, at katie.bleier@wisc.edu.

Online applications must be received by 11:55pm on the application deadline to ensure consideration.

Failure to submit complete application materials may result in ineligibility for consideration for this position.

Katie Bleier
kbleier@wisc.edu
608-263-5172
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

Admissions Director (C)(AE142)

A54-SCHOOL OF NURSING/ACAD.AFFRS/STU SVCS

Academic Staff-Renewable

279024-AS

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.