Job Description
Associate Registrar, Recruitment to Learner (Burnaby Campus)
Type: Full-time, Ongoing
Opening Date For Accepting Applications: Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Resume Review: Ongoing
Position Start Date: as soon as suitable candidate is available
Salary: $89,455
Contact: Human Resources
Email: hr@nvit.ca
Phone: 250-378-3308
Address: NVIT
4155 Belshaw St.
Merritt, BC, V1K 1R1
NVIT is BC's Indigenous Public Post-Secondary Institute. As a leader in Indigenous post-secondary education and a fully accredited member of BC's post-secondary education system,we provide a comprehensive range of programs up to the degree level at our campuses in Merritt and Burnaby. NVIT also delivers programs online and in Indigenous communitiesthroughout British Columbia. Join a growing and innovative institution committed to making a difference in Indigenous education and communities. With an institutional mission to empower learners by strengthening voice and identity through education, NVIT employees honour an atmosphere embedded in Indigenous culture and traditions while cultivating an environmentfounded on learner centred principles that promote student recruitment, engagement and achievement.
Job Description:
NVIT anticipates a requirement for an Associate Registrar, Recruitment to Learner at our Vancouver campus and invites applications from qualified individuals. This will be an excluded, ongoing position with an anticipated October 2, 2023 start date.
Job Summary:
This position reports to the Registrar and is responsible for the daily operations of specific functional areas within the Enrolment Services division, including operations, project management and staff supervision. The Associate Registrar works closely with the Associate Registrar, Learner to Graduation, to ensure consistency, connectivity, and quality assurance across the entire learner cycle. With a core focus on learner success and institutional sustainability, the Associate Registrars work collaboratively across the institute with learners, employees, and community partners to advance NVIT’s strategic initiatives.
The Associate Registrars ensure high quality, efficient and consistent learner-centered services to students in the areas of recruitment, admissions and assessment, financial and academic planning, registration, student life and retention services and graduation. Together, the Associate Registrars share responsibility for maintaining and advancing NVIT’s Community Based Assessment program, Ministry financial aid reports, UPASS, Student Health and Dental, T2202, and the Immediate Entry Bursary. Specifically, the Associate Registrar, Recruitment to Learner, is responsible for managing institute-wide Enrolment Services functions related to the learner cycle's recruitment, applications, and registration components, regardless of campus.
The Associate Registrar, Recruitment to Learner, is a leader, collaborator, facilitator, and administrator within the division and works across the institute with colleagues, students, and community partners to achieve the objectives of NVIT. This person is expected to be hands-on individual who will oversee day-to-day Enrolment Services operations (Burnaby) while completing many projects and operational duties. The successful candidate will have the ability to provide leadership, foster employee success and engage employees while advancing the strategic priorities of the division.
Requirements/Qualifications:
- Master’s degree preferred. A minimum four-year Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) from an accredited institution plus relevant experience may be considered.
- Three to five years of relevant experience in a student services office, preferably including supervisory experience in a unionized environment.
- Understanding Canada’s history and the devastating impacts on Indigenous peoples and Indigenous ways of being and knowing.
- Promotion of holistic wellness and trauma-informed practice.
- Knowledge of and appreciation for Indigenous languages and cultures, preferably Indigenous lived experiences.
- Advanced oral and written communication competencies, interpersonal skills, business acumen, and project management.
- Demonstrated advanced skill set with various software systems, particularly with Microsoft Office, Teams, Colleague, Self-Service, Informer, and SharePoint.
- Demonstrated excellence in building or maintaining an effective multi-service team that provides excellent customer service.
- Comprehensive knowledge of and experience with recruitment, admissions and registration policies, business procedures, systems, and trends in recruitment and overall enrolment services at a provincial and national level.
- Ability to use various system tools to extract and report on admission and enrolment data.
- Comprehensive understanding of the learner cycle and its connection to the breadth of functions carried out by the Enrolment Services division and the related trends provincially and nationally. Applicants should note the integrated scope of the Enrolment Services division includes Recruitment, Prospect through to Graduation procedures, services and supports (retention), Student Success Centre, Accommodations and Accessibility services, etc.
- Experienced successful project leadership and management skills from implementation to completion (including budget).
- Demonstrated effective and inclusive learning and training facilitation with diverse learner groups.
- Proven ability to work independently, take initiative, identify service and system improvements through a systems-based lens, be logical and maintain confidentiality, and have the capacity to initiate action on matters relating to the Enrolment Services division.
- Ability to adapt to a fluid work environment (e.g. the response to COVID-19).
- Demonstrated experience responding effectively to learner and employee concerns.
- Possess superior presentation skills to communicate clearly with all audiences of the NVIT Community, external agencies, and the general public.
- Proven ability to build collaborative working relationships to achieve outcomes in the best interest of students and NVIT.
- Proven ability to model professional, ethical, and collaborative behaviors.
- Demonstrated experience in delivering presentations to large and small groups.
- Ability and willingness to travel extensively (CBA, Recruitment, External Engagement, Campus to Campus, Communities of Practice).
As an Indigenous centre for excellence, NVIT inspires learners to strengthen community.
NVIT gives high priority to Aboriginal candidates. All applicants should be experienced inworking with Aboriginal people.
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