JOB DESCRIPTION St Helen’s is an academically selective independent girls’ day school of more than 1100 students aged 3-18, set in beautiful green space in Northwood, Middlesex. With easy access transport links, it draws pupils from a wide area of north-west London, Buckinghamshire, and Hertfordshire. OUR AIMS ARE: • To provide each and every girl with the opportunity and means to achieve academic excellence. • To provide our students with the personal skills, emotional resilience, and the confidence to achieve their full potential through a varied, rich and challenging co-curricular programme. • To know, value and respect all girls as individuals so as to best support them on their journey through the school. • To ensure that the girls are ready to play a full and active part in their communities and in an interconnected digital world. Our students achieve high academic standards, and we encourage them to develop lifelong skills in a diverse range of areas, both within and outside the curriculum, and to pursue their individual ambitions. The school is proud of its tradition of providing a balanced and forward-looking education through which its pupils can become confident, independent learners and leaders in their fields, their professions and their communities. Attention to the individual child is at the heart of everything we do and shapes the pastoral care, teaching and learning and the co-curricular opportunities on offer at St Helen’s. THE POST The Admissions Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operational delivery of the School’s student recruitment strategy, maximising new student conversions from initial enquiry to acceptance of a place and increasing existing student retention at all entry levels from Nursery to Sixth Form. REPORTING TO: Head of Marketing and Admissions
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: • Day-to-day operational management of the admissions department, ensuring robust and efficient admissions procedures and systems are in place to deliver the student recruitment strategy and meet recruitment and retention targets. • Ensure that all in-person, online and off-line communication with families via the admission team is accurate, timely and consistent with the school’s brand values and admissions best practice, ensuring an optimum customer experience at all times from the point of initial enquiry to taking up a place. • Collaborate with marketing and academic teams to deliver successful recruitment and retention events and activities that drive increased conversions to acceptance of offers. • Support the Business Director and academic leads with the smooth implementation of the student bursary and scholarship selection and award processes by providing relevant admissions. • Data and communication with parents. • Ensure the smooth transition from prospective to current student status, including the management of the entrance assessment processes and results, welcome and induction processes and Events and tutor group and House allocations. • Support the Head of Marketing and Admissions and academic leads in fostering relationships with feeder schools, ensuring that the admissions team is represented at all visits and events. • Ensure the accurate, effective, and efficient implementation and administration of the admissions management systems, including ISAMS. • Ensure academic and pastoral leads are provided with admissions information at the point of student entry to ensure a smooth transition into and through the school. DATA MANAGEMENT: • Ensure all enquiry and admissions data is captured and recorded accurately on the relevant information systems by the admissions team. • Evaluate all enquiry and admissions data and provide reports on agreed metrics to the Headmistress, Head of Marketing and Admissions and the senior leadership team as required. • Utilise performance and forecasting data to inform evidence based decision making and shape financial planning to deliver effective translation into student numbers.
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