Vice President Enrollment Management

Required Qualifications

Candidates for this position should have significant experience, with increasing responsibility, in enrollment management, operations management, admissions, and financial aid.

In addition, candidates must possess a strong appreciation for a mission-based, liberal arts education and should demonstrate the following characteristics, skills, abilities, and understanding:

• Master’s degree;
• Strategic mindset with an ability to execute and implement new and creative ideas that enhance the quality of the student body, improve retention, and leverage the awarding of financial aid while increasing selectivity and diversity in admission;
• Demonstrated success in recruiting and enrolling students from diverse populations in all of its forms;
• An ability to maintain an integrated recruitment approach that makes effective use of data analytics to inform decisions within a “high touch” recruitment model;
• Accountability, visibility, and willingness to create an environment of transparency;
• Possession of strong interpersonal skills for communicating with prospective students, their families, campus colleagues, counselors, board of directors, and alumni;
• High-level knowledge of market demographics, demands, and trends to help inform program development;
• Appreciation for the nuances of recruiting prospective students while attending to the ongoing needs of current students through innovative financial aid and retention efforts;
• Demonstrated ability to build, enhance, and nurture relationships with colleagues across campus, especially those involved in the recruitment and retention of students;
• Ability to plan strategically and analyze effectively with budgeting and financial acumen;
• Interest in representing, understanding, and supporting John Carroll’s Jesuit Catholic mission to inspire individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead, and serve in the community and throughout the world;
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead effective, diverse management teams, including mentoring and developing staff;
• Capacity to develop and refine the University’s competitive aid packages to achieve net revenue and enrollment goals;
• Knowledge of NCAA Division III regulations and a demonstrated ability to partner with athletics in the recruitment of student-athletes;
• Experience and knowledge in graduate, transfer, and non-traditional student recruitment and enrollment;
• Innovative, creative, and flexible spirit with personal warmth and approachability;
• Ability to make immediate contributions to a forward-thinking and quickly-moving culture.

• Ph.D. or terminal degree

The new Vice President will lead a division of 36 employees. Six direct reports include AVP Enrollment Operations & Analytics, AVP Student Enrollment & Financial Services, AVP Enrollment Strategy & Innovation, Senior Director of Enrollment Communications & Marketing, Director of Admission, and Director of National Recruitment. The teams of the Division are responsible for undergraduate recruitment and admission, the institution’s national enrollment strategy, recruitment and institution-wide internal communication and operations through CRM management (Slate), enrollment communication, and student financial aid throughout the student lifecycle.

The VPEM will work as a close counterpart to the leader of Integrated Marketing & Communications to align shared work, and assume management of the cross functional Enrollment & Marketing Leadership Team which shepherds the work of setting and monitoring the university’s enrollment goals and long-term strategy.

THIS PROVEN LEADER WILL :

• Serve as a visionary leader for the enrollment management division with a demonstrated ability to galvanize teams around shared goals and guide them through change and innovation.
• Act as a key ambassador for the power and value of the John Carroll experience, able to communicate compellingly with audiences ranging from prospective students to national partners.
• Build a strong, mission-aligned culture by fostering a stable, cohesive, transparent, and outcomes-oriented environment.
• Bring an innovative and student-centered approach to…