Assistant Director of Admission

Job Description

Job Description

The College Preparatory School

Assistant Director of Admission

Full-Time Position

The College Preparatory School seeks a full-time Assistant Director of Admission who is warm, personable, and genuinely excited to work with 8th graders and their families. This role is central to our admissions office - guiding outreach strategy, managing workflows, and creating a welcoming first experience for prospective students. Strong communication skills, a collaborative spirit, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment are essential. Some evening and weekend hours are required.

Core Responsibilities

• Contribute proactively to admissions and enrollment strategy as a key member of a collaborative team
• Represents the school at admission events and school fairs, school visits, and off-campus events and delivers compelling presentations to prospective students and their families
• Serve on the Admission and Financial Aid Committees
• Build and maintain recruitment pipelines, including outreach beyond school-based sources; with a keen eye toward advancing diversity, equity, and belonging in admissions work and outcomes
• Manage communications with warmth, timeliness, and attention to detail
• Conduct a high volume of interviews with prospective students and lead school tours and group presentations with enthusiasm and care
• Lead the Student Ambassador Program (60+ student volunteers) across admission events throughout the year
• Co-coordinate logistics for all admissions events, including registration, setup, and follow-up
• Manage the online application database (Ravenna) and related data processes
• Collaborate with the Communications team on website content and Ambassador profiles
• Support a general office culture of kindness and shared responsibility

Skills & Qualifications

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills - genuine warmth with students, families, faculty, and staff
• Strong organizational skills; able to manage multiple priorities independently and collaboratively
• Proficiency in Google Suite, MS Word, and Excel; Ravenna experience a plus
• Two to three years of independent school and/or admissions experience strongly preferred
• Bilingual Spanish/English strongly preferred
• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Commitment to confidentiality and professionalism

Candidates should be eager to embrace spirited intellectual challenges in a rewarding academic environment. Our mission is to prepare students for productive, ethical lives in college and beyond by fostering a stimulating education within an atmosphere of consideration, trust, and shared responsibility. Faculty and staff thrive at College Prep when they engage in the rich opportunities of its many co-curricular programs. College Prep actively designs programming and curricula that seek to strengthen the school's ties to Oakland and to the greater Bay Area. Benefits include medical and dental coverage, a retirement plan for eligible employees, and most pleasantly and collegially, a prepared lunch every day. Professional development is actively encouraged and supported.

Founded in 1960, The College Preparatory School is an independent, coeducational secondary school created for intellectual risk-takers who want to pursue a purposeful education with kindred peers. Our mission is to prepare students for productive, ethical lives in college and beyond by fostering a stimulating education within an atmosphere of consideration, trust, and mutual responsibility. As an equal opportunity employer, College Prep does not discriminate in its hiring of employees on the basis of race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, creed, national origin, citizenship, marital or veteran status, age, or disability. We actively seek diversity among our faculty and administration as well as among our students.

Salary: $78,000 - $90,000/year

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