Admissions Officer

**Direct Reporting Line**:
Deputy Head: Student Recruitment

**IIE MSA, since April 2019 we are part of The Independent Institution of Education (The IIE), a leader in the higher education sphere. The IIE is internationally recognised by the British Accreditation Council. IIE MSA, located on a 100-hectare campus in Ruimsig, Johannesburg, in the province of Gauteng. In addition to domestic (South African) students, IIE MSA is home to a diverse of cultures of students from 50 African countries.**

**The IIE MSA Ruimsig Campus in Roodepoort has a vacancy for an Admissions Officer.**

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Student Application & Admission Administration**
- Collaborates with the campus Student Recruitment team to generate student admissions related queries
- Follows up with the Student Recruitment team for missing student information in order to finalise all student admissions related queries.
- Evaluates student admissions against the set admission criteria and communicates the appropriate outcomes.
- Liaises with the campus Student Recruitment team during the admission evaluation process and assessment.
- Escalates admission queries to the Admissions Manager.
- Liaises with the campus Student Recruitment team on the management of admission waitlists.
- Liaises with the campus Student Recruitment team on the management of declined admissions and expired offers and the issuing of new offers of study.
- Documents management and issuance of appropriate admission letters.
- Determines conditions associated with student admission and follows up on them thereafter.
- Determines the eligibility of the admittees onto academic programmes.
- Tracks student admissions through to registration.
- Reports on admission progress to the Head: Student Recruitment & Sales Operations Manager (Distance & Admissions).
- Adheres to established service level agreements of the admissions process set by the organisation.
- Works with the Finance department on finance related issues of admission.
- Works with the Admissions Manager & Sales Operations Manager (Distance & Admissions) to ensure admission compliance for the campus.
- Works with the Admissions Manager on national admission projects.

**Student Registration Administration**
- Applies necessary holds on student accounts based on outstanding documentation or conditional admissions
- Verifies registrations against the admission criteria.
- Responsible for completing all School of Education counselling documentation prior to admission approval to ensure students are registered for the correct FAL/diadactic modules. All counselling documents must be uploaded to the applicant profile before admission is approved
- Manages the new student transfer process in conjunction with Head: Student Recruitment, Marketing Assistants and other relevant stakeholder, and thereafter sends to the finance department for processing (from admission to registration).
- Processes new student SLP & NQP registrations as required by Head: Student Recruitment
- Checks the National Senior Certificate (NSC) exception reports on a weekly basis.
- Follows up on all outstanding documentation and uploads once received.
- Ensures compliance of international students from a document perspective.
- Adheres to the International Student Policy/Procedure and updates reports regularly.
- Re-audits all registration files in line with the stipulated deadline for the Data Verification Report.
- Re-audits all registration files by the audit date stipulated by the Registrar, this would include the following; the South African Qualifications Authority SAQA / Universities South Africa (USAF) qualifications, study visas and all conditional acceptance - including remarks, international Students and all outstanding documentation.
- Tracks and monitors conditional admissions throughout the year such as Universities South Africa (USAF) / South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) / combined National Senior Certificate (NSC ) / study visas and all other ad hoc conditional admissions.
- Adheres to the established service level agreements of the registration process set by the organisation.

**Reports and Other**
- Responsible for training all new student recruitment staff and continuous upskilling of sales team as changes to admission criteria/processes occurs
- Facilitates continuous communication with the Assistant Registrar in relation to resolving the Registrar related queries.
- Complies with The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) legislation relevant to new student admissions.
- Performs other ad hoc administrative and/or reporting duties as and when required.

**Competencies Required**:

- Superior interpersonal and communications skills
- Computer proficiency
- Planning skills
- Time management skills
- Deadline and results driven
- Best suited to a friendly, organised and systematic person who has an eye for detail and who works accurately and is able to handle pressure

**Minimum Qualification Req