Enrollment Counselor

🔥 42 minutes ago

🇵🇪 Peru – Remote

💵 S/80k - S/85k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🛋️ Counselor

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

Where this job comes from

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First seen by Remote Rocketship 42 minutes ago

Still open on The Institute for Study Abroad's site. Checked 18 minutes ago.

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The Institute for Study Abroad

51 - 200 employees

Founded 1988

💼 Consulting

✈️ Travel

📚 Education

Consulting • Travel • Education

The Institute for Study Abroad is a U. S. -based organization that designs and administers international study abroad programs for college students, providing program search, admissions support, scholarships and financial aid, health and safety resources, and career development services like a Career Accelerator. It partners with educators and institutions to offer quarter, semester, summer, and custom programs worldwide, while emphasizing experiential learning, diversity and inclusion, and student wellbeing.

📋 Description

• Maintain program information and resources and manage application processes for an assigned program portfolio • Advise students on location, program choice, program features, course selection, and transfer credit • Respond to inquiries from students, families, institutional partners, and IFSA colleagues • Coach students through pre-arrival preparation, including special needs, visas, travel logistics, academics, housing, health and safety, and cultural transitions • Maintain accurate student records and data integrity in Salesforce • Create and run student-record reports • Analyze program-portfolio trends and recommend enrollment and process improvements • Handle host-university applications and course-selection processes • Communicate with colleagues and host institutions to advance applications • Create and revise email templates, application forms, handbooks, advising resources, and website content • Distribute scheduled communications to enrolled and prospective students • Operate within regional teams and flex across portfolios as needed • Help oversee Student Engagement interns and delegate tasks • Communicate with sending universities regarding approvals, affiliations, transfer credits, billing, and administration • Organize and present pre-arrival orientation sessions with IFSA resident staff • Partner with Institutional Engagement to promote IFSA programs to U.S. colleges and universities through webinars and occasional travel • Participate in site visits, retreats, conferences, campus visits, cross-department projects, and other assigned initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• 1–2 years of work experience in higher education, sales, study abroad, hospitality, or non-profit sectors • Contagious enthusiasm for IFSA’s mission, vision, and commitments • Strong time management and planning skills • Ability to work independently and balance multiple priorities • Solutions-finding approach and continuous process improvement mindset • Strong technology and software competencies, including Salesforce and Microsoft Office Suite • Ability to work effectively with colleagues across an organization • Experience supporting students with diverse lived experiences, including students of color, students with mental and physical disabilities, first-generation college students, and LGBTQIA+ students • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Flexibility and ability to adapt to ambiguous and changing situations • Undergraduate degree preferred • Familiarity with the USA undergraduate education system required • Ability to work occasional overtime during busy enrollment cycles • Legal right to work in Peru • Physical residence in Lima • Ability to attend occasional meetings outside local business hours • Ability to travel independently by ground and air transportation, domestically and internationally

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to join group health care plan • Support for professional development • Flexible work arrangements • Work/life balance • Occasional program site visits, staff retreats, professional conferences, or U.S. campus visits

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