Graduate Admissions Advisor

Graduate Admissions Advisor

As part of a dynamic Graduate Admissions team, this position serves as a primary representative of SUNY Plattsburgh's graduate programs and admissions processes. Reporting to the Director of Graduate Admissions, this role is responsible for recruiting and supporting prospective and current graduate students through comprehensive outreach, advising, and engagement efforts.

Key duties include counseling prospective students on admissions requirements, academic programs, financial aid, application processes, and graduate resources through various communication channels, while implementing targeted recruitment strategies to increase application completion and enrollment. The position represents the university at recruitment events, graduate fairs, employer outreach activities, and community programs, and delivers presentations to diverse audiences in both virtual and in-person settings.

Additional responsibilities include planning and assessing recruitment and yield events, overseeing graduate student engagement initiatives and social media efforts, maintaining orientation materials and digital content, and supporting programs that enhance the graduate student experience. The role also requires maintaining accurate recruitment records, generating reports and data analyses to inform enrollment planning, contributing to process improvements, and participating in university committees and initiatives that promote student enrollment, retention, and success.

The position requires comprehensive knowledge of graduate admissions policies, academic programs, enrollment systems, financial assistance resources, and student support services. The advisor plays a key role in achieving graduate enrollment goals through relationship building, strategic communication, data-informed recruitment practices, and collaboration with campus partners.

Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree, strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, demonstrated commitment to excellent customer service, ability to develop and deliver presentations to diverse audiences, ability to work collaboratively with faculty, staff, administrators, and external partners, ability to master knowledge of programs/services available to college students, proficiency with Google Workspace, Microsoft Office Suite, and related software applications, valid driver's license at the time of appointment, ability to lift and transport materials weighing up to 25 pounds.

Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree, experience in admissions, recruitment, marketing, sales, customer service, or a related field, experience using CRM systems, preferably Technolutions Slate, knowledge of student recruitment, enrollment, and retention practices, familiarity with SUNY Plattsburgh, its graduate programs, and the North Country region.

Salary (Applicant View) - $57,151 minimum, plus excellent benefits.

About Our University - SUNY Plattsburgh, home of the Cardinals, is part of the largest comprehensive university system in the United States. The university offers a diverse selection of more than 60 academic programs across three schools Arts & Sciences, Business & Economics, and Education, Health & Human Services. Many of these programs are highly ranked and carry strong national and regional reputations that allow students to work with highly skilled faculty who prepare them to excel in their chosen fields and industries upon graduation. Our campus prioritizes enrollment growth and stabilization, student success, equity and inclusion, and engagement with our North Country region as our four pillars of success. And we are committed to providing each and every Cardinal student a high quality liberal arts education grounded in academic excellence and a well-rounded college experience.

SUNY Plattsburgh is a destination campus located in northern New York between the iconic Adirondack Mountains and Lake Champlain. The campus is a short walk from historic downtown Plattsburgh, New York, where area residents have access to a wide array of arts, food, and events throughout the year, and just over a 1 hour car ride from the cities of Burlington, Vermont, Montreal, Quebec, and Lake Placid, New York, which is best known by locals as a former site of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.

Closing Date

Open Until Filled - Yes

To receive full consideration, supply all requested documents by: 07/28/2026

EEO Statement - SUNY Plattsburgh is fully committed to excellence through diversity, equity and inclusion, and to supporting a welcoming environment for all students, employees and visitors. As an equal opportunity employer and a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), the university guarantees equitable consideration to all qualified applicants with regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, ability, assigned gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, familial status, economic status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction, or any other legally protected status per federal or state laws.