Senior Director of Admission and Enrollment

DEPARTMENT: Office of Admission and Financial Aid (OAFA)

POSITION TITLE: Senior Director of Admission and Enrollment

FLSA CODE: Exempt NORMAL

WORK HOURS:

40 hours per week, Monday-Friday

IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR: Chief Enrollment and Student Engagement Officer

The Senior Director of Admission and enrollment is the senior operating leader of Olin’s undergraduate admission function and the Chief Enrollment and Student Engagement Officer’s (CESEO) principal partner in shaping and delivering the College’s enrollment strategy. The role carries dual accountability: achieving recruitment and selection outcomes that shape each entering class, including volume, academic strength, geographic and demographic breadth, and yield—and building a small, high‑performing admission team whose members demonstrate measurable professional growth during their time at Olin.

In a small admission office where leadership responsibilities are both strategic and hands‑on, the Dean of Admission and Enrollment sets strategy, manages the budget, oversees admission technology and the operational calendar, and remains actively involved in reading applications, traveling, and presenting. Success in this role requires the ability to move seamlessly between multi‑year enrollment planning and the details of CRM workflows without losing sight of either.

A particular emphasis of the position is broadening participation in engineering, including students historically underrepresented in the field and those who have overcome significant educational or economic barriers.

This is an in‑person/on‑campus position based in Needham, MA.

Performance in this role is evaluated against outcomes, not activity. Specific targets are set annually with the CESEO.

• Achievement of annual inquiry, application, admit, yield, and class‑composition targets
• Growth in applications and enrollment from students with a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and educational pathways, including those who have faced barriers to accessing engineering education.
• Staff retention, demonstrated staff growth, and completion of individual development plans
• On‑time, error‑free delivery of every milestone in the admission cycle calendar
• Admission operating budget managed to plan, with demonstrated return on recruitment spend
• Reach and quality of counselor, educator, CBO, and partner‑institution relationships
• Data integrity — reported admission figures reconcile across CRM, SIS, and institutional reporting

• Partners with the CESEO to develop the College’s multi‑year enrollment strategy, the annual recruitment plan, and the KPIs by which both are measured; owns execution of the admission components.
• Builds the annual recruitment and travel plan using funnel data, market research, historical yield by segment, and institutional strategic priorities; recommends entry into new markets and the sun setting of underperforming ones.
• Analyzes and reports on funnel performance throughout the cycle — inquiry, application, admit, yield, summer melt — and adjusts tactics in‑cycle based on what the data shows.
• Serves as a thought partner to the CESEO on pricing, financial aid leveraging, and the net tuition revenue implications of recruitment and selection decisions, in close coordination with financial aid leadership.
• Monitors the external landscape — demographic shifts, test policy, the legal and regulatory environment for admission, and the competitive position of small engineering colleges — and advises senior leadership on implications for Olin.
• Prepares analysis and materials for cabinet, Board, and faculty audiences on admission performance and strategy.
• Represents the admission…