Dean of Enrollment & Access

Date of First Consideration:
August 18, 2026

Salary Range: $130, 675 – 140,675, depending on qualifications and experience

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Shoreline College understands that equity, inclusion, and diversity are integral to excellence and success. We honor and celebrate diverse experiences and perspectives, strive to create welcoming environments and a deep sense of belonging, respectful learning environments, and promote access, opportunity, and justice. We are looking for equity-minded applicants who reflect and demonstrate cultural intelligence and understanding of the diverse communities that make the Seattle metro and Pacific Northwest a rich and vibrant place to live and work.

When you join the team at Shoreline, you can expect to be part of an innovative and equity-focused community that approaches higher education as a matter of social justice built on broad collaboration among faculty, staff, students and community partners. In deciding whether to apply for a position at Shoreline, you are strongly encouraged to consider whether your values align with our Mission, Vision, Values, and Equity Statement.

Shoreline College seeks a Dean of Enrollment & Access who provides visionary leadership to the planning, implementation and evaluation of comprehensive student support, services, and programming designed to enhance the student experience. The Dean of Enrollment & Access serves as Shoreline College's chief enrollment strategist and primary leader for all Strategic Enrollment Planning efforts. The Dean is accountable for developing, implementing, and assessing a comprehensive enrollment strategy that advances enrollment growth, student success, and equitable outcomes.

Central to this work is the responsibility to identify, address, and eliminate systemic barriers that contribute to inequitable outcomes for BIPOC students and families and other historically underserved populations. The Dean ensures that all outreach, recruitment, admissions, enrollment, onboarding, financial aid, and access initiatives are guided by principles of equity, inclusion, belonging, and social justice. Additionally, the Dean will work collaboratively with internal and external partners and multiple college-wide initiatives to improve student success, retention, and completion.

This Dean should be able to identify and mitigate the barriers to success that many students face and be passionate about creating an equitable learning environment that supports success for all students.

Reporting to the Vice President for Student Affairs the Dean is the College’s primary leader for Strategic Enrollment Planning and student access and leads development and execution of a comprehensive Strategic Enrollment Plan. This position provides leadership, vision, operational oversight, and management of Outreach & Recruitment, Enrollment Services (admissions, orientation, and registrar), Financial Aid, Advising & Running Start, Career Center, three Welcome Desk hubs, High School Completion programs, Community Employment Program, and a variety of community engagement partner programs.

In collaboration with the Dean of Student Engagement & Retention, serves as a leader within the Division of Student Affairs. This position also requires working closely with other leaders on large-scale visioning and strategy, as well as the implementation of initiatives that seek to enhance the student experience at Shoreline.

• Envision, plan, assess, and implement goals for the areas around enrollment, entry, onboarding and community partnerships within the Division of Student Affairs.
• Lead efforts around ensuring access, entry, and transitions to Shoreline are equitable, inclusive, seamless, and transparent so that students are fully prepared and welcomed.

• Lead and chair all Strategic Enrollment Planning efforts; serve as primary executive leader for outreach, recruitment, admissions, orientation and enrollment management; close equity gaps for historically marginalized students and families through measurable interventions and culturally responsive recruitment strategies.
• Establish enrollment goals and success metrics that include measurable targets for reducing equity gaps among Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Pacific Islander, immigrant, refugee, low-income, LGBTQIA+, first generation, multilingual, foster youth, justice-impacted, and students with disabilities and all student populations that are represented in our Strategic Plan.
• Lead the College’s Strategic Enrollment Planning process with a commitment to advancing equitable student outcomes and eliminating systemic barriers to college access, enrollment, persistence, and completion for historically underserved populations.
• Utilize disaggregated enrollment, retention, and completion data to identify inequities and develop targeted strategies to improve outcomes of…