Registrar Operations & Systems Lead

School-of-Visual-Arts-; New York (NY); On-site; USD 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

The Operations and Systems Manager at the School of Visual Arts oversees academic records, registration services, degree audits and graduation processes, curriculum and course management, and SIS administration.

You will lead Registrar’s Office operations, ensure FERPA compliance, and collaborate with admissions, IT, faculty, and students to support timely degree completion and institutional data integrity.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree and two years of relevant experience.
• 3–5 years of progressively responsible experience in higher education administration, registrar services, enrollment management, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Oversee student degree progress records, including exceptions, substitutions, waivers, overrides, and degree audits within the student information system.
• Evaluate degree completion and graduation eligibility; communicate outstanding requirements with students, advisors, and academic departments.
• Coordinate degree conferral, transcript updates, diploma processing, and transfer credit evaluations.
• Maintain transfer equivalency data with Admissions and academic departments.
• Assist Directors with registration operations for all programs, including setup, permissions, enrollment, payment processing, and specialized programs.
• Provide comprehensive student records services, including registration, transcripts, enrollment verification, grading, withdrawals, and program changes.

Skills

Student records management

Registration and curriculum management

Degree audit

FERPA knowledge

Microsoft Office / cloud tools

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Data analysis

Education

Associate’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Ellucian Colleague

Relational databases

Reporting tools

Job description

The Operations and Systems Manager at the School of Visual Arts oversees academic records, registration services, degree audits and graduation processes, curriculum and course management, and SIS administration.

You will lead Registrar’s Office operations, ensure FERPA compliance, and collaborate with admissions, IT, faculty, and students to support timely degree completion and institutional data integrity.