Tamara Oki

About Tamara Oki

Hello! I\'m a recruiter with interests in Psychology and International Development. I\'m bilingual in English and French. I have 5 years of full life-cycle recruitment experience that has included marketing and project management responsibilities. Currently, I’m the Global Recruitment Manager at Fuller Theological Seminary, where I am also completing my MSMFT. I was a Corporate Recruiter for Development Alternatives, Incorporated in 2021. DAI is a private international development organization with global corporate offices in Bethesda, Maryland; London, UK; Abuja and Lagos, Nigeria; Brussels, Belgium; Vienna, Austria and several other cities in European. In 2021, I taught English to Francophone students in Vieux Habitants, Guadeloupe (French Caribbean) through the Teaching Assistant Program In France, a program sponsored by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Before this, I helped manage the Scholarly Concentration Program at the Office of Student Professional Enrichment at George Washington University\'s School of Medicine in 2019. Through building relationships, I motivated medical students, professors, and administrators to attend events on topics including Global Health. Previously in 2018, I conducted research on the impact of female teacher representation on girls\' learning outcomes at UNESCO\'s International Institute for Educational Planning in Paris, France. Early in my career, I was a Manager of Talent Recruitment at Teach For America, and sourced prospects for the organization\'s senior leadership positions. As a Manager of Recruitment, I also oversaw a portfolio of 3 Mid-Atlantic universities in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area and recruited rising seniors to improve K-12 academic growth for scholars in disadvantaged communities. Moving forward, I\'d like to continue being a mental health and wellness advocate. I love psychology and I\'m currently becoming a therapist :) I love to write in my spare time and I\'m dedicated to positively impacting the world while achieving my career goals. Feel free to connect.

Experience

1. Global Recruitment Manager

   Fuller Theological Seminary

   Oct 2022 — Present · Pasadena, CA, US

   Develop a global recruitment plan that will be used to reach target goals -Create and build relationships with qualified applicants to Fuller’s academic programs, maintaining ongoing contact from inquiry to matriculation to meet Fuller’s program-specific admissions goals -Manage a geomarket/recruitment territory by actively traveling to (or virtually connecting with) schools, churches, and organizations to meet with prospective students and recruitment partners and to conduct dynamic presentations about admission and application requirements and processes -Maintain an assigned portfolio of contacts and applicants, through the use of electronic databases (primarily Salesforce and Banner) in order to adequately and efficiently build and maintain values-based counseling relationships with prospective students and move them through the admissions funnel to reach individual and team goals -Communicate accurately and compellingly the values, mission and vision of Fuller and its Admissions Office to applicants to help discern how they align with each person’s sense of calling and vocation -Develop strategies to reach new audiences and implement a marketing campaign for targeted outreach -Organize and conduct webinars and other virtual and in-person recruitment events; represent Fuller as recruitment and alumni engagement lead at conferences and large scale trade shows with up to attendees -Recruit for specific programs, identifying recruitment needs and performance, offering strategic and tactical insight and plans for effective communication, and webpage/social media content to meet goals -Lead as primary point of contact for prospective students, feeder schools, community & business groups -Demonstrate sensitivity to the challenges facing international applicants

Education

• University of Pennsylvania

  Bachelor of Arts (BA), History, African Studies, minor in French Studies

  2008 — 2012

• Kwame Nkrumah'​ University of Science and Technology, Kumasi

  Coursework in African Studies and Sustainable Development

  2011 — 2011

• The George Washington University

  Master of Arts - MA, International and Comparative Education

  2017 — 2019

• John F. Kennedy High School

  Humanities/Humanistic Studies

  2004 — 2008

• Fuller Theological Seminary

  Master of Science in Marriage & Family Therapy, Psychology

  2022