Vice President, Enrollment Management

Req : 44569

Job Title: Purdue Global Vice President, Enrollment Management (Remote)

City: Remote/Virtual

Building on Purdue University's mission to provide greater access to affordable, high-quality education, Purdue University Global is a public, nonprofit institution offering a world-class education online. Purdue Global delivers personalized online education tailored to the unique needs of adults who have work or life experience beyond the classroom, enabling them to develop essential academic and professional skills with the support and flexibility they need to achieve their career goals.

The Vice President, Enrollment Management will provide support to Purdue University Global.

Reporting to the Chief Enrollment and Partnerships Officer, the Vice President, Enrollment Management (VP of EM) leads Purdue Global's new student enrollment operation and is accountable for delivering new student academic starts each term. The role owns the student's path from the point Marketing hands off a qualified inquiry through the first-term add/drop period. This position serves working adult students in a fully online institution, with emphasis on providing an informed, supportive experience for those students;

routinely achieving budget and start goals; and creating a positive work environment centered on collaboration, respect, student outcomes, and continuous improvement. The VP of EM will demonstrate a commitment to Purdue Global's land grant mission of access and can point to success serving a broad population of adult learners.

• Enrollment operations and delivery of new student starts:
  • Own new student academic starts against plan each term, by population and by program.
  • Lead the admissions advising organization, including staffing, hiring, training, coaching, and quality assurance.
  • Own each stage of the funnel from Marketing handoff through admit, registration, start, and add/drop, including application completion, document and transcript collection, transfer credit intake coordination, and financial aid coordination.
  • Own speed to contact, speed to admit, speed to start, and melt between admit and start, and design the processes that improve them.
  • Own first-term engagement and intervention through the add/drop period, and maintain the handoff standard to Student Success.
  • Design and hold the qualified inquiry handoff standard with Marketing and ensure conversion results are reported back to inform channel and campaign decisions.
  • Ensure students arriving through partner channels receive an enrollment experience aligned to each partnership's terms.
  • Manage enrollment vendors and ensure compliance with internal and external policies, regulations, and other mandates.
• Enrollment analytics, forecasting, and performance management:
  • Own the term‑by‑term start forecast, the staffing and capacity model, and the daily and weekly performance cadence for the operation.
  • Develop, manage, and report on funnel metrics and outcomes representative of student and institutional success.
  • Identify and track patterns, trends, and anomalies, and design and implement immediate operational responses.
  • Serve as the enrollment business owner for the CRM and related systems.
• Admissions policy, process, and compliance:
  • Monitor compliance with the standards for admission and related policies and processes.
  • Ensure all recruitment and enrollment activity meets federal, state, accreditor, and university requirements, including Title IV and misrepresentation rules.
  • Oversee quality monitoring activities (reporting and responses) of adherence to policy, process, compliance standards, and best practice.
  • Collaborate with university stakeholders and vendors on the ongoing improvement of admissions…