Vice Provost for Enrollment Management

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Position Title Vice Provost for Enrollment Management

Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive.

In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

The Enrollment Management Unit supports Western's mission , which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

The mission of Enrollment Management is to build a diverse, vibrant, and inclusive campus community. We are committed to providing access, affordability, and essential services that support all students in their quest to succeed at Western Washington University and beyond. We strive to serve our community with excellence, integrity, innovation, and compassion. We work on behalf of prospective students, current students, and their families through each phase of the enrollment process: the college search, admission, financial aid and scholarships, orientation, registration, and on to graduation.

Enrollment Management includes Undergraduate Admission, Financial Aid, Orientation and Transition, the Registrar’s Office, and Veteran’s Services.

The Vice Provost for Enrollment Management (VPEM) serves as the University's chief enrollment officer and has executive responsibility for the development, implementation, assessment, and continuous improvement of a comprehensive, data-informed Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) plan. The VPEM provides strategic leadership for establishing institutional enrollment goals and priorities related to recruitment, retention, and student success in alignment with the University's mission, strategic plan, and commitment to student achievement.

The VPEM is accountable for recruitment outcomes and enrollment goals and collaborates with academic and administrative leaders across the institution to advance retention and student success objectives. The Vice Provost provides innovative leadership to advance recruitment strategies, financial aid optimization, enrollment forecasting, and the policies, systems, and services that enable student success. The position leads the Enrollment Management division, including the offices of Admissions, Financial Aid, Registrar, Veterans Services, and Orientation and Transition.

Working collaboratively across academic and administrative units, the Vice Provost advises senior leadership on enrollment trends, student demand, financial aid strategy, tuition revenue implications, and long-term enrollment sustainability. The Vice Provost serves as a member of the Provost's leadership team