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Admissions Administrative Support

  • Applications open
  • 4 vacancies
  • Work study only
  • Department
    Admissions
  • Job starts
    ASAP
  • Job ends
    TBD
  • Work schedule
    Flexible (can be any time M-F, 8-4:30pm)
  • Pay Level C
    $14.50 starting wage

Major job duties

  • Provide reception services to admissions guests, drop-ins, faculty, and staff.
  • Maintain multiple admission counselor Outlook calendars, scheduling appointments and checking-in prospective students.
  • Explain the admission process to prospective students and redirect them to counselors and other university offices as appropriate.
  • Access online eTranscripts, copying, scanning, sorting and electronically imaging and filing documents to student records.
  • Conduct enrollment verification checks on prospective student applicants.
  • Data entry in the student record database for prospects.
  • Maintain marketing/publication major racks for graduate admissions, update inventory, and fact sheets, as needed.
  • Complete daily mailing to prospective students.
  • Various projects as assigned in support of the department.
  • Assist with special events such as Open House, Preview Days, and Information Sessions.
  • Occasional evening or weekend required dependent upon Outreach event schedule.
  • Lead campus tours for prospective students.
  • Motivate and encourage prospective students to attend the University.

Worksite: Founders Hall, 700 East Seventh Street (St. Paul Campus).

Qualifications and experience

  • Excellent customer service skills sufficient to actively listen and understand customer needs and provide accurate admission program information and status checks.
  • Strong work ethic with proven ability to work independently and with a team.
  • Ability to work effectively and efficiently with deadlines and changing priorities.
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
  • Intermediate typing and computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft software programs such as (Excel and Word).
  • Detail-oriented, flexible and dependable.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality.

To apply

Email resume to Alayna.Petersen@metrostate.edu. We will follow up to schedule an interview.