Employment Opportunities

Current Openings

• Director of Admission & Financial Aid

  Overview 

  The Admission and Financial Aid Director leads, manages, and evaluates the student enrollment process – from inquiry through matriculation to assimilate “each whole person” into the school's culture. Along with data management, the position provides creative oversight in keeping with the school's mission to identify, attract, enroll, award need-based aid (when needed), and retain mission-fit students. This individual must embody Brentwood Academy’s mission in order to clearly articulate both what it is and what it is not.  

  Skills 

  • Excellent communicator, including verbal and written skills
  • Capacity to initiate and nurture relationships with prospective families
  • Excellent organizational skills and dependable work ethic
  • Computer proficiency: Veracross (SIS), School & Student Services, Word, Excel
  • Understanding of marketing principles in relation to admission and financial aid
  • Consistent personnel and project management skills  

  Tasks 

  • Provides overall leadership/direction of the office 
  • Serves as face of the Admission Department through event hosting, video, etc. 
  • Articulates and provides counsel to the admission committee decisions as needed
  • Manages the admission budget 
  • Communication with Head of School, Associate Head, Board, All Faculty/Staff 
  • Serves on Division of Enrollment Management and External Affairs Leadership Team
  • Manages the admission and financial aid personnel
  • Coordinates and manages the function of the Admission & FA committees
  • Plans Admission Days, Open Houses, admission and financial aid meetings
  • Manages the admission (Veracross & Fireworks) and financial aid (School & Student Services) processes, from first inquiry to assimilation
  • Communicates with each new student inquiry with the goal of cultivating relationships of all mission-appropriate families
  • Maintains appropriate admission and financial aid statistics and evaluates to monitor effectiveness of admission and financial processes
  • Establishes a communication flow with all stakeholders throughout the school year
  • Establishes recruitment strategies to attract and retain mission-appropriate families
  • In conjunction with communications staff, develops marketing tools, events and advertising campaigns
  • Produces mailings and correspondence related to the admission and financial aid processes
  • Works with the admission team to schedule and prepare for interviews with prospective families
  • Provides both individual and group, campus tours
  • Educates and enlists faculty and staff to assist where needed in the admission and financial aid processes
  • Keeps appropriate records and statistics throughout the enrollment and financial aid processes 

  Qualifications 

  • Bachelor’s Degree 
  • Prior admission, financial aid, enrollment, or marketing experience is highly desirable, especially the Middle Tennessee market
  • Knowledge and familiarity with Independent, Christian Schools is a plus 
  • Alignment with the school’s Mission and Faith Statements are essential 
  • Goal driven, relationship driven, and data informed decision making will be important to the successful candidate 

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