Dean for Enrollment Management

Wabash College; Crawfordsville (IN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Wabash College seeks a strategic Dean for Enrollment Management (Vice President) to lead admissions and financial aid, shaping a major aspect of the college’s mission for men in a competitive national market.

The Dean will guide a team of eight professionals, partner with Senior Staff, and articulate the value of a Wabash education to prospective students, families and counselors. The role combines vision with rigorous analytics and a commitment to access and student success.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership in admissions and enrollment management.
• Experience building recruitment plans that deliver results.
• Analytical skills for forecasting financial aid and enrollment.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building.

Responsibilities

• Lead recruitment and financial aid strategy for the college.
• Provide strategic leadership across Admissions and Financial Aid.
• Direct a team of eight senior-level professionals.
• Own comprehensive recruitment and aid strategies to attract new classes.
• Design merit and endowed scholarship strategy and optimize student revenue.
• Diversify and expand recruitment pipelines through community partnerships.
• Use data to forecast and shape enrollment in a competitive national market.

Skills

Leadership

Enrollment management

Data analytics

Strategic planning

Job description

Wabash College is seeking a strategic and entrepreneurial Dean for Enrollment Management (Vice President) to lead the recruitment and financial aid efforts that will shape the future of one of the nation's only liberal arts colleges for men. Reporting directly to the President and serving on Senior Staff, this leader steps into a role with rare institutional weight — at a college whose alumni network, career outcomes and tradition-rich culture give it a recruiting story few peers can match, and whose distinctive mission asks for a recruiter who can tell that story with conviction.

The Dean will provide strategic leadership across Admissions and Financial Aid, directing a team of eight senior-level professionals, owning the comprehensive recruitment and aid strategies that bring each new class to campus. This is a role built for someone who thinks in both vision and numbers — designing merit and endowed scholarship strategy, optimizing student revenue, diversifying and expanding recruitment pipelines through community partnerships and using data to forecast and shape enrollment in a demanding national market for residential liberal arts education.

The ideal candidate brings significant, progressively responsible leadership experience in admissions and enrollment management, a track record of building and executing recruitment plans that deliver results and the analytical sophistication to navigate financial aid leveraging and enrollment forecasting. They are a confident communicator and relationship-builder, equally effective rallying a team, partnering across Senior Staff and articulating the value of a Wabash education to prospective students, families and counselors — and they bring a genuine commitment to access, student success and a diverse student body.

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