Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs
Position: Vice President for Enrollment Management & Student Affairs
Regular/Contingent: Regular [12-Months]
Full or Part Time: Full Time
Open: 11/20/2020
Closing Open Until Filled
Position Summary
As a trailblazer in online learning, Leighton University is positioned to build on its many accomplishments to meet the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic and post-pandemic era. The University seeks a seasoned strategic, collaborative, and proven leader with capable of leading and managing a robust student affairs portfolio to serve as Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs (VPEMSA), at a pivotal time in history in the opening of a new institution.
The Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs provides leadership, management, and supervision of enrollment and student affairs programs and personnel, responding to student needs, managing the fostering institutional development. The Division includes Administrative Operations, student support (student life and services, student advocacy including counseling, and testing and disability services), admission, and retention. The incumbent participates in the President’s Cabinet and carries out special assignments as shall be designated by the President.
Selected Duties
- Leads in the development, facilitation and assessment of strategic enrollment plans for the University, that gives focus to the recruitment of new students and initiatives to retain current students.
- Develops strategies for recruiting new students, including first-year students, transfer returning adult, and non-degree seeking students while working closely with the School of Graduate Studies and academic departments on the processing of graduate applications.
- Partners with the Office of Communication and Marketing to create recruitment publications and materials.
- Partners with the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs to lead, facilitate and assess a strategic enrollment plans for the university with a focus on the recruitment of new students and the retention of current students.
- Develops strategies for recruiting new students, including freshmen, transfers, military, returning adult dual enrollment, and non-degree seeking students while working closely with the School of Graduate Studies and academic departments on the processing of graduate applications.
- Partner with the Office Communication and Marketing to create undergraduate recruitment publications and materials.
- Develops strategies and policies to utilize resources for each academic year that will contribute to student success across all levels of the university.
- Partners with departments across the university and community to develop and implement initiatives that focus on the successful recruitment, retention of students.
- Plans, designs, develops, and delivers student programs and services that reflect the goals of the University; provide leadership for ensuring quality in non-academic student experience with a clear focus on successful student outcomes.
- Develops, Recommends, and implements policies, procedures and practices that promote student success; recommend operational and organizational and structures, personnel, and resources to ensure a student-centered environment at all levels.
- Provides collaborative leadership and guidance for the recruitment and retention of students.
- Analyzes and evaluates data, outcomes and metrics to be prepare appropriate reports used in strategic decision making.
- Provides leadership division’s personnel for activities related to student due-process, and other non-academic judicial matters that may include, but not limited to, writing appropriate policies and procedures, holding hearings on conducting investigations; and holding hearings on student non-academic judicial matters.
- Serves as the appellate officer for student honesty, conduct and sexual misconduct hearings.
- Develops, fosters, and promotes new opportunities for partnerships with public and private sector entities and aims to provide leadership for establishing multi-year tactical and annual operational goals designed to complement the strategic goals of the University.
- Plans, designs, develops and delivers student programs and services that reflect the University’s goals; support aand provide leadership for ensuring quality in aspects of the University’s non-academic student experience with a clear focus on successful student outcomes.
- Develops and implements practices, procedures, and policies that foster and promote student success.
- Analyzes and evaluates data, outcomes, and metrics and prepares appropriate reports to be used in strategic decision making.
- Provides leadership to personal in the Division of Student Affairs for matters related to but not limited to writing appropriate policies and procedures that guide non-academic judicial matters, conducting investigations, and holding hearings. The incumbent serves as the appellate officer for student honesty, conduct, and sexual misconduct hearings.
- Develops and promotes new opportunities for partnerships with public and private sector entities.
- Sensitivity to, understanding of, and respect for the diverse academic, religions, ethics socioeconomic, ethnic, cultural background, religious disability, and sexual orientation of community college students, faculty, and staff.
Qualification and Desired Characteristics
- Possession of an earned doctorate
- Demonstrated strong record of fostering communication with students, parents, faculty, community, legislature and general public.
- Ability to make good, consistent and data driven fair decisions.
- A minimum of three (3) years of successful leadership experience as a senior administrator at an institution of higher education.
- Sensitivity to, understanding of, and respect for the diverse academic, socioeconomic, ethnic, religious, cultural background, sexual orientation sexual orientation of students, faculty, and staff.
Effective Date of Appointment
- As soon as possible.
This position description in no way directly states or implies that the duties performed by the employee occupying the position are limited to those identified here. The employee will be required to perform any other job-related duties as requested by the supervisor.