Posting Description

SENIOR ADVISOR FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, Admissions Office, reporting to the Dean of Admissions and Student Financial Services, will cultivate relationships among, and execute initiatives involving, students, alumni and other MIT community members in the admissions office’s efforts to consistently enroll a more racially and ethnically diverse first-year class; work alongside and across teams inside and outside the admissions office to develop and maintain trusted relationships with student and alumni groups, and collaborate with them to develop and improve innovative outreach and yield programs; work with other groups on and off campus to develop strategic initiatives that advance equal opportunity in K-12 STEM education; regularly communicate progress, and identify roadblocks and opportunities, through analysis, reports, presentations, and informal discussions to the dean and senior leaders; shape admissions policies and institutional strategies; read applications, participate in the admissions selection committee, and contribute to the admissions process in other select and high leverage ways.