About This Role
Driving student recruitment and enrollment across the network of schools is the core purpose of this strategic, data-driven, and people-focused role. The Manager of Enrollment will strengthen recruitment and enrollment strategies, feeder-school and community partnerships, and help schools achieve ambitious enrollment goals, including a 3:1 applications-to-seats ratio. This role supervises Student Enrollment Coordinators (SECs), leads field recruitment, and translates enrollment strategy into actionable plans.
Responsibilities
- Support the development and implementation of strategic network-wide recruitment and enrollment initiatives
- Directly supervise SECs, including coaching, performance evaluations, accountability, and building a positive team culture
- Own field recruitment, including planning, staffing, on-site supervision, and evaluation of canvassing, feeder-school outreach, community engagement, and recruitment events
- Manage SEC schedules, school assignments, and weekly work plans based on school needs, enrollment gaps, and Director-established goals
- Ensure consistent recruitment messaging, outreach documentation, and timely family follow-up through application and enrollment completion
- Execute network recruitment, enrollment, and retention strategies; use results to adjust outreach tactics and staff deployment
- Monitor enrollment trends, projections, and conversion rates; produce reports, dashboards, and recommended actions
- Facilitate school recruitment and enrollment progress meetings, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and serve on the Enrollment Initiative team
- Train SECs and school teams; support development of enrollment tools, resources, and onboarding materials
- Manage daily Enrollment Management System (EMS) operations, troubleshoot issues, and serve as the liaison with the Data team
- Lead application launches, lotteries, enrollment compliance, and Prop 39 form collection planning
- Coordinate network recruitment campaigns and support school events and community outreach
- Lead weekly recruitment and enrollment communications
- Leverage influences to motivate teammates and key stakeholders, cultivating teamwork and accountability, driving the achievement of ambitious goals
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or commensurate work experience (required)
- 4+ years of work experience in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
- 2+ years of experience in a managerial or coaching role
- Experience working in student recruitment, education, marketing or mission-driven organizations
- Excel in project management by effectively planning, organizing, and executing tasks to ensure goals are achieved on time and within scope
- Effective teamwork orientation with the ability to communicate and interact effectively with multiple constituencies, including leadership, school leaders and staff, parents, students, and community members
- Quick learner who can adapt, solve problems creatively, and work well with limited direction
- Ability to develop, document, and implement systems and processes to increase effectiveness
- Demonstrate accountability for meeting deadlines and achieving key goals
- Experience in diverse, inclusive environments with a strong focus on equity and access
- Team-oriented, with a positive and proactive attitude
- Experience with Enrollment Management System/Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Excel, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Canva, social media platforms
- Flexibility to support recruitment and enrollment activities outside of regular business hours, including evening and weekend work (required)
- Reliable transportation to multiple sites
- Ability to occasionally move equipment weighing up to 50 lbs. with or without accommodation
- Ability to work in active recruitment and event environments that may require extended periods of standing and walking, with or without reasonable accommodation
- Dependable, humble, have an open mind, and a rock-solid commitment to Green Dot’s mission and the communities we serve
- Pass a TB test and background check at time of offer
Nice to have:
- Bilingual proficiency in Spanish
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible to participate in Green Dot’s benefit plans, effective on the first of the month following their date of hire
- No-cost premium (for employee only) and low-cost premium (for entire family) HMO option via Anthem Vivity - a network that includes some of the best hospitals in the nation (Cedars Sinai, Huntington Memorial, Torrance Memorial, UCLA and more)
- Medical PPO and EPO options
- Dental and vision care coverage (100% employer-paid options)
- Employee Assistance Program (100% employer-paid)
- Life and AD&D Insurance (100% employer-paid)
- Optional Term Life & AD&D Insurance
- Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance (100% employer-paid)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (health and dependent care)
- Monthly parking for Central Office-based employees (100% employer-paid)
- Wellness programs and resources
- Financial planning/coaching access
- Optional non-matching 401(k) plan
- Potential for remote work opportunities (occasional or recurring)
- Potential for annual performance-based compensation increases
- Potential for annual bonuses
- Potential for stipend work opportunities
- Approved family care and/or medical leave (unpaid)
- Generous paid time off for an overall work-life balance
Important Details
- Schedule: consistent attendance during scheduled hours, flexibility is limited by classroom or operational requirements
- Breaks: structured within the workday and must align with operational needs and student care requirements; extended or frequent breaks may not be feasible
Application Process
- Complete an online application
About the Company
Green Dot Public Schools has embedded a diversity, equity and inclusion lens in its organizational culture, as well as in its educational and talent practices. It is committed to hiring those who reflect the diversity of its communities, and it recruits, employs, supports, compensates and promotes employees, without regard to their actual or perceived race, religious creed (including religious dress or grooming practices), color, national origin or ancestry (including native language spoken), physical or mental disability (including HIV or AIDS), medical condition (including cancer or genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status (including registered domestic partnership status), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender (including gender identity and expression), parental status, age (forty (40) and over), sexual orientation, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, citizenship, immigration status or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law. Green Dot Public Schools is unable to sponsor any applicant for a temporary or permanent U.S employment-based visa, nor hire any applicant currently holding a temporary U.S. employment-based visa.
