School Admissions Manager
Pubblicato il 30-10-2026 - International Schools Partnership in Italia
Purpose of Role
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This is a senior role, responsible for attracting and driving student enrolments to meet ambitious targets, building relationships with prospective families, and collaborating with all stakeholders involved in the admissions process. The role will oversee lead conversion (generated by our marketing team) to enrolment. This is a role for someone who is a natural leader, performance-driven, and comfortable with using data strategically.
Job Description
Head of Admissions – Alexandria
This is a senior role, responsible for attracting and driving student enrolments to meet ambitious targets, building relationships with prospective families, and collaborating with all stakeholders involved in the admissions process. The role will oversee lead conversion (generated by our marketing team) to enrolment. This is a role for someone who is a natural leader, performance-driven, and comfortable with using data strategically.
The Head of Admissions reports solid into the Head of the school and has a functional reporting to the Regional Head of Admissions.
The Head of Admissions is a member of the School Senior Leadership Team.
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- In addition to a competitive base salary, this role offers a discretionary 10% premio based on targets.
Key Responsibilities
Recruitment and enrolment management:
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- Advise prospective parents & stakeholders on our value proposition (profile, programme, fee structure and all services provided) across all sales channels.
- Primary responsibility of implementing the Schools Admissions process, including the nurturing of the sales funnel (at all stages),
guaranteeing the best family experience journey, customer service, negotiation, and objection handling, commercial scripts, and parent communications.
- Make the adequate follow-up to all potential leads to warm the prospective sales (through school tours and meetings) and convert them into new enrolments.
- Create, organise, and deploy innovative open days and recruitment events (virtual and presential), as well as admissions meetings, while displaying an excellent customer experience service.
- Support the School responsible in carrying out assessment of prospective students per the admissions policy.
- Implement all policies and documentation related to student admissions (including toolkits, templates, scholarship programmes), with the support of stakeholders following ISP guidelines, to ensure consistency in admissions standards and processes.
- Monitor and develop lead generation activities, work with the ISP Heads of Marketing and Admissions, to ensure admissions targets are met.
- Work with the Head of School and SLT to develop appropriate programmes and campaigns, such as referral schemes, scholarships, or working with feeder schools.
- Regularly review and develop admissions documents, parent communication platforms and templates,
and marketing collaterals to ensure accurate information and best practice.
- Ensure that the school implements ISP customer service and customer experience standards and conducts regular trainings and refresher trainings for all admissions team front facing staff.
Networking & Building Relationships
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- Develop and nurture mutually beneficial relationships with feeder schools, nurseries, universities, local businesses, government entities, education agents and other organisations to maximize student recruitment and retention at the school.
- Support the Head of School with participation in relevant national and regional conferences, events, and competitions to raise the profile of the school, students, and faculty.
- Work with parent-facing administrative staff closely, to ensure an outstanding coordination among all internal stakeholders involved in the process and that first impressions of the school are excellent leading to positive visitor experience.
- Advise on effective continued support and communication to new families after students enroll at the school - ‘after sales care’.
- Ensure that a customer loyalty programme is in place and aligned with the customer loyalty programme created for the region.
Enrolment Targets & Data Management
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- Work closely with the school leadership team to establish recruitment and retention targets: by analysing the demand appetite, enrolment data and identification of trends.
- Lead and prepare comprehensive reports based on data analysis and provide recommendations for adjustments to recruitment tactics, customer excellence and operational efficiency.
- Maintain the CRM system by ensuring it is up