Admission Multicultural Recruitment Intern

The Office of Admission recognizes that currently enrolled students are our best ambassadors. Though we are all tasked with the job of recruiting applicants and students to the College many of us are not Grinnell alumni and therefore cannot truly speak to the realities of life at Grinnell College – that’s where you come in. We depend on our student workers to convey to our prospective applicants/recruits what life at Grinnell College is truly like.

• We seek to employ students to work with the Multicultural Recruitment Coordinator (and in her absence the Office of Admission Support Staff) to fulfill the goal of enrolling Multicultural and diverse students for each incoming class.
• We seek these interns to ensure that our potential Multicultural applicants/students receive information from, and access to the genuine experiences and stories of currently enrolled Multicultural students.
• This access provides our people with the best and most current information about life as a Multicultural student at Grinnell College.
• Our interns typically make or break prospective applicant/student opinions about Grinnell College.
• Given the importance of this position, our MC interns must be: reliable; responsible; professional; knowledgeable about the College and its programs; enthusiastic about the College; able to communicate with people from various social, economic, ethnic and political backgrounds; and above all, enthusiastic about their own Grinnell College experiences and willing to share these experiences with prospective applicants/students and their families.

• The MC interns must be willing to devote at least four - six hours per week to the job (with the possibility that hours may increase or decrease based on programming needs). The MC interns’ duties include, but are not limited to:
• representing the Office of Admission to the campus as a whole and to our MC groups in particular (by attending MC group meetings and events);
• maintaining and staffing online presence and other communication opportunities such as –
• creating content for social media,
• face/bio on admission website,
• appearing on various panels for recruitment events,
• other duties as assigned
• setting up, creating and sending emails to our prospective Multicultural applicants;
• assisting Admission Visit Coordinator Assistant or Overnight Host Coordinators (AVCAs or OHCs) with the recruitment and training of overnight student hosts;
• assisting, as needed, with the coordination, organization and programming for any fly-in programs (if any occurring in the fall or spring), which may include staffing at programs and helping with greet students at the airport;
• acting as a liaison for the Office of Admission to on-campus groups interested in assisting with Multicultural student recruitment activities
• Other duties as assigned.

For more information please contact Patty Amador-Lacson (amadorla@grinnell.edu)

Qualifications: Preference given to

1. Rising 2nd, 3rd or 4th years

2. Students who are proven to be reliable; responsible; professional; knowledgeable about the College and its programs; enthusiastic about the College; able to communicate with people from various social, economic, ethnic and political backgrounds; and above all, enthusiastic about their own Grinnell College experiences and willing to share these experiences with prospective applicants/students and their families.