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Admissions & Student Recruitment Officer
Two positions building BOLO IT's first intake — from schools outreach and enquiry handling through to offers, enrolment and the start of the inaugural cohort.
Recruit the first cohort of a new institution.
BOLO IT is recruiting two Admissions & Student Recruitment Officers to build the inaugural intake. This is field-facing recruitment work as much as office work: secondary schools, careers events, parents, community and diaspora networks, alongside the enquiry-to-enrolment process that turns interest into registered students.
This page summarises the role. The full recruitment profile is available to download below.
- Location
- Cameroon
- Employment
- Full-time | Two positions
- Reports to
- Executive Director
- Expected start
- February 2027
- Sector
- Higher education | Admissions | Outreach
The institution
BOLO Institute of Technology is a technology-focused higher-education institution in Cameroon, architected around three pathways — Higher National Diploma, Bachelor's and Master's — and being developed to prepare technology professionals, innovators, researchers and entrepreneurs for opportunities in Cameroon, across Africa and internationally.
BOLO IT is being built around a distinctive educational model: rigorous academics combined with hands-on laboratories, real-world projects, internships, professional certifications, mentorship and instruction shaped by experienced technology practitioners. The institution is intentionally globally oriented, AI-enabled and Silicon Valley-inspired.
Our ambition
A student educated at BOLO IT in Cameroon should leave with the academic foundation, practical capability, AI fluency, professional exposure and confidence to compete with technology talent anywhere in the world.
The opportunity
These are the roles that decide whether BOLO IT opens with a full cohort. Before launch, the work is outreach and pipeline: building relationships with secondary schools and their careers staff, presenting the institution to students and families, running the interest list, and converting enquiries into applications, offers and confirmed enrolments. After launch, the roles carry the annual recruitment cycle and the admissions process behind it, and stay close to students through registration and their first weeks.
Leadership mandate
- Build the first cohort — a defined number of enrolled students, not a list of interested names.
- Establish relationships with secondary schools, careers advisers and community networks across the region.
- Explain a new institution honestly to families making a significant financial decision.
- Run an admissions process that is fair, documented and defensible under review.
- Turn the existing interest list into applications, and applications into confirmed enrolments.
- Bring the field back into the institution — what applicants ask, what they fear, and what changes their minds.
Core responsibilities
Schools & community outreach
Build and maintain relationships with secondary schools, careers staff, community organisations and diaspora networks; present BOLO IT at school visits, careers fairs and information sessions.
Enquiry & applicant management
Handle enquiries across phone, WhatsApp, email and walk-in with consistent, accurate information; maintain the applicant record from first contact through to enrolment.
Admissions processing
Assess applications against published entry criteria, verify qualifications, coordinate interviews or assessments where required, and issue offers under the institution's admissions policy.
Conversion & enrolment
Follow up offers, support applicants and families through fee arrangements and registration, and carry confirmed students through to the start of teaching.
Recruitment campaigns
Plan and run intake campaigns within the marketing budget available, including open days, campus visits and the digital channels the institution operates.
Reporting & pipeline discipline
Maintain accurate pipeline data — enquiries, applications, offers, acceptances, enrolments — and report against intake targets so shortfalls surface early enough to act on.
Required qualifications
- Higher National Diploma, Bachelor's degree or equivalent; the field matters less than the communication ability.
- Experience in admissions, student recruitment, sales, community outreach or a comparable field-facing role.
- Confident presenting to a room of secondary-school students, and equally to their parents.
- Organised record-keeping — a pipeline that is accurate every week, not reconstructed at the end of a campaign.
- Fluent in both English and French; applicants and families come from both.
- Willing to travel regularly for school visits and recruitment events.
The leader we are looking for
These roles suit people who can represent an institution that does not yet have graduates — persuasive without overpromising, and honest about what a first cohort is joining.
- Straight dealing
- Describes a new institution accurately to families spending real money on it.
- Field energy
- Would rather be in a school hall than behind a desk.
- Follow-through
- Chases the enquiry that went quiet, because most enrolments come from the second conversation.
- Record discipline
- Keeps a pipeline that can be trusted without being verified.
- Cultural fluency
- Reads what a family is really asking about cost, distance, safety and outcome.
- Target orientation
- Measures the work in enrolled students, not in activity.
Download the full recruitment profile
The full profile carries the six-month mandate, the success measures and the graduate profile in full.
Download the full recruitment profile (PDF)We believe world-class technology talent can be developed anywhere.
Interested?
Our ambition is to build one of Africa's leading technology institutions and develop graduates capable of competing with technology talent anywhere in the world.
Get in touch and we will send you the full recruitment profile and next steps.