VP, High School and Military Admissions
A Vice President of High School and Military Admissions oversees the entire admissions department, with a focus on compliance, student recruitment, and staff supervision across both the high school pipeline and specialized military and veteran channels. This is a sample job description from Excelon Associates that you can adapt as a template for your own hire.
What does a VP of High School and Military Admissions do?
The Vice President of High School and Military Admissions oversees all aspects of the high school and military admissions department, ensuring policies and expectations are upheld. The role plays a crucial part in attracting qualified students to the campus, supervising staff, maintaining performance standards, coordinating events, and ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal regulations. The position requires extensive travel.
It is a senior enrollment leadership role within the higher education sector, combining the high school pipeline with specialized military and veteran recruitment channels.
Military admissions covers recruitment of active-duty service members, veterans, National Guard, and Reserves, often tied to education benefits and requiring relationships with military bases and Veteran organizations. Because these channels are closely regulated, compliance with federal recruitment rules is central to the role.
What does the VP oversee?
Key responsibilities of a VP of High School and Military Admissions
- Oversee the high school and military admissions department and provide necessary training to admissions personnel.
- Formulate and implement effective recruitment plans, military marketing strategies, and territory management.
- Maintain performance standards related to military base development, local and state Veteran organization development, and National Guard and Reserves relationships.
- Collaborate with the office of communications and marketing to develop strategies targeting prospective students.
- Coordinate national trade shows, fairs, and other marketing events and strategy.
- Manage and support campus leadership with student veteran activities, and attend semi-annual graduation events.
- Ensure adherence to all local, state, and federal regulations as well as company policies and procedures within admissions operations.
- Carry out supervisory responsibilities including planning, assigning, and directing work, appraising performance, and resolving issues.
- Provide leadership in business plan execution, expense control, and other managerial functions, working toward recruitment results aligned with the strategic plan.
What qualifications does the role require?
- Bachelor’s degree from a college or university in a related field.
- A minimum of ten years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Why is this role important?
The VP leads both the high school pipeline and the specialized, highly regulated military and veteran recruitment channels. The role drives enrollment while protecting the institution through compliance and ethical recruitment of service members, where missteps can carry serious regulatory and reputational consequences.
Because military recruitment involves education benefits and federal oversight, the strongest VPs combine aggressive enrollment growth with scrupulous compliance and genuine respect for the veterans and service members they recruit. That combination is what makes this distinct from a general admissions leadership role.
A hiring note from Excelon
Military and veteran admissions sit under real regulatory scrutiny, so this role rewards leaders who grow enrollment without cutting corners. Through our higher education practice, we look for VPs who understand military base development and veteran benefits and who treat compliance as non-negotiable, since recruitment of service members is an area where shortcuts cause lasting damage.
The strongest VPs combine aggressive enrollment growth with scrupulous compliance and genuine respect for the service members they recruit.
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VP, High School and Military Admissions: frequently asked questions
What does a VP of High School and Military Admissions do?
The VP oversees the entire high school and military admissions department, with a focus on compliance, student recruitment, and staff supervision. The role builds recruitment plans, military marketing strategies, and relationships with veteran and military organizations.
What qualifications does the role require?
This sample role requires a bachelor’s degree in a related field and a minimum of ten years of related experience or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, plus proven admissions leadership.
What does military admissions involve?
Military admissions involves recruiting active-duty service members, veterans, National Guard, and Reserves, including military base development and relationships with Veteran organizations, often connected to education benefits.
Is this role focused on compliance?
Compliance is a central focus. The VP ensures admissions operations adhere to all local, state, and federal regulations as well as company policies, which is especially important given the regulatory scrutiny on military and veteran recruitment.
Why is this role important?
The VP leads both the high school pipeline and the specialized, highly regulated military and veteran recruitment channels. The role drives enrollment while protecting the institution through compliance and ethical recruitment of service members.
Hiring a VP of High School and Military Admissions?
Excelon Associates recruits admissions executives, enrollment leaders, and military and veteran recruitment specialists for colleges and career schools across the United States through our higher education recruitment practice. Retained executive search since 2007, headquartered in Asheville, NC, with offices in Boca Raton and Delray Beach, FL.
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