Director, New Student Orientation

🇺🇸 Springfield, Missouri 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $90K - $100K 💻 Enrollment 🗓️ September 20th, 2026

Edtech.com's Summary

Missouri State University is hiring a Director, New Student Orientation to lead the university's onboarding experience from admission through enrollment. The role designs and continuously improves orientation programming while aligning it with recruitment, admissions, advising, and student-support efforts across campus.

Highlights

Designs and continuously improves orientation programs that support student transition, academic readiness, and campus engagement.
Aligns orientation efforts with recruitment, admissions, advising, and student-support services within the Enrollment Management division.
Supervises professional staff, graduate assistants, and student employees who deliver orientation programming.
Oversees a student-fee-supported departmental budget for orientation operations.
Builds a coordinated, student-centered onboarding experience that reflects institutional priorities across the university.
Champions operational excellence and high-quality customer service throughout program delivery.
Collaborates broadly across university departments to ensure a seamless admission-to-enrollment transition.
Requires at least two years of experience supervising staff and managing complex programs or cross-unit collaboration.