About the Role
The Student Enrollment Coordinator ensures campus enrollment and student persistence goals are met by managing the enrollment process, planning recruitment strategies, and engaging with the community. This role involves maintaining compliance, providing customer service, and supporting families through registration, while promoting IDEA Public Schools and its programs to build a strong school community.
Responsibilities
- Ensure campus enrollment targets are met by the 11th Day of School and maintain a solid waitlist after the lottery.
- Execute student recruitment strategies, attend community events, and conduct off-site presentations.
- Organize and conduct cold calling campaigns, collaborate on recruitment events, and assist parents in completing applications.
- Establish recurring weekly campus tours, send “WELCOME” STREAM messages, and create monthly recruitment plans.
- Manage the re-registration process, follow up with families post-lottery, and develop a recapture campaign for withdrawn families.
- Oversee Welcome to IDEA orientation planning, Registration and Re-Registration process, provide high-quality onboarding for new families, and lead new student and parent interactions.
- Ensure rolling enrollment compliance, fill open seats by following the waitlist order, and maintain data integrity throughout the registration and re-registration process.
- Follow a rotating, non-traditional schedule, including evenings, weekends, and select holidays.
Requirements
- High School Diploma
- Valid Texas Driver’s License Required with a clear motor vehicle record
- At least 2 years of experience in sales, recruitment, admissions, or enrollment, preferably within an educational setting.
- Ability to sit, stand and walk for long periods of time.
- Ability to move safely over uneven terrain or in confined spaces.
- Ability to work in extreme weather.
- Bending, crawling, stooping, standing, vision, lifting, walking.
- Ability to carry up to 50lb.
Skills
- Student Recruitment and Strategic Outreach
- Community Engagement
- Public Speaking
- Marketing Campaign Development
- Effective Communication
- Customer Service
- Enrollment Process Management
- Data Integrity
- Compliance
- Relationship-Building
- Parent Engagement
- Event Planning and Coordination
- Time Management
- Adaptability
- Problem-Solving
- Data Entry and Computer Skills
- Knowledge of IDEA Public Schools
- Goal-Driven and Data-Oriented
- Self-Management
- Bilingual (Preferred)
Location
- Austin
Work Type
- Full-time
- On-site
Experience Level
- 2 years of experience in sales, recruitment, admissions, or enrollment, preferably within an educational setting.
Education Level
- High School Diploma
- Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.
Salary/Compensations
- $21.56 - $26.95 per hour
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits plan covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan.
- Subsidized costs for spouse/domestic partner and children's medical plans.
- Up to 8 weeks of paid family leave for birth or adoption.
- Up to 50% tuition reimbursement per year, up to $5,250 maximum.
- 5 face-to-face mental/behavioral health counseling sessions per year.
- Unlimited 24/7 telephonic mental/behavioral health counseling.
- Work-life services.
- Dental and vision plans.
- Disability insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Parenting benefits.
- Generous vacation time.
- Referral bonuses.
- Professional development.
- Relocation allowance may be offered.
About the Company
- At IDEA Public Schools, we believe each and every child can go to college. Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to a multi-state network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools.
- IDEA Public Schools boasts national rankings on The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report’s top high schools lists.
- IDEA serves over 80,000 college-bound students in 143 schools across Texas, Florida, Ohio, and is on-track to maintain its legacy of sending 100% of its graduates to college.
- When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.
- At IDEA the Staff Culture and Belonging Team uses our Core Values to promote human connection and a culture of integrity, respect, and belonging for all Team and Family members.
Equal Opportunity
- Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college.
- Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them.
- Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly.
- Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes.
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change.
- Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization.
- Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes.
- We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.
