Senior Vice Provost for Enrollment Management and Services
NC State University
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Job summary
NC State University is seeking a Senior Vice Provost for Enrollment Management and Services to provide strategic leadership of the university’s enrollment enterprise. You will shape enrollment strategy, oversee capacity, and align programs across colleges to support student access and success.
Reporting to the Provost, you will champion data-informed decision-making, collaborate with academic and administrative leaders, and guide initiatives that advance NC State’s land-grant mission and
Qualifications
- Minimum education: post-baccalaureate degree with at least ten years of leadership in higher education.
- Senior leadership experience in enrollment management with strategy, operations, and outcomes.
- Ability to lead change, build partnerships, and use data to inform decisions.
- Proficiency with data analytics, forecasting, and enrollment technology.
- Strong communication and relationship-building across organizational boundaries.
Responsibilities
- Shape long-term enrollment strategy aligned with NC State priorities.
- Lead university-wide enrollment planning and capacity assessment.
- Advise leaders on enrollment trends and implications.
- Champion data-informed decision-making across operations.
- Foster partnerships with NC State colleges and external bodies.
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Job description
Anticipated Hiring Range: Commensurate with education and experience
Work Schedule: Core Business Hours: Monday - Friday; 8:00 am - 5:00 pm; flexibility and additional hours are depending upon the business needs
Enrollment Management and Services
Enrollment Management and Services ( EMAS ) supports the full life cycle of students by delivering vital, student-centered services that foster access, reduce barriers, facilitate successful transitions, and support student achievement from initial inquiry through graduation and beyond. EMAS provides students, families, university leaders, faculty, and staff with the expertise, information, resources, and guidance needed to navigate the university successfully.
Guided by its mission, “Your Path. Our Purpose.,” EMAS strives to be a trusted institutional partner and national leader in enrollment management and student services. Through expert support, exceptional service, innovative technology, and data-informed decision‑making, the division creates pathways to transformative educational experiences and empowers lifelong success. In support of NC State’s land‑grant mission, EMAS advances educational opportunity and helps the university meet the evolving educational and workforce needs of North Carolina and beyond.
EMAS provides strategic leadership for recruiting, enrolling, supporting, retaining, and graduating students in alignment with NC State’s strategic priorities and enrollment goals. The division’s programs, services, technologies, and operations influence student access and success, academic progress, time to degree, institutional effectiveness, and the overall student experience. EMAS also provides the enrollment expertise, data, analysis, and long‑range planning necessary to inform institutional strategy, assess capacity, anticipate emerging trends, and support effective university decision‑making.
The work of EMAS is grounded in its core values of communication, effectiveness, innovation, integrity, service, and teamwork. Through collaboration across academic and administrative units, the division promotes organizational excellence, continuous improvement, responsible stewardship, and responsive, high‑quality service to students, families, and the university community.
EMAS includes Undergraduate Admissions; Scholarships and Financial Aid; Registration and Records; the Student Services Center; Enrollment Systems and Operations; Enrollment Data and Analytics; EMAS Marketing and Communications; Community College Collaboration (C3); the Goodnight Scholars Program; and Parents and Families Services. The division includes approximately 125 permanent employees, as well as student employees, University Ambassadors, temporary staff, and other personnel who support its mission and operations.
EMAS collaborates extensively with NC State’s academic colleges and administrative divisions and represents the university in enrollment‑related matters with the University of North Carolina System. The division also cultivates strategic partnerships with the North Carolina Community College System and its constituent institutions, schools, educational organizations, government agencies, and other external partners.
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The Senior Vice Provost for Enrollment Management and Services reports directly to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost and serves as the university’s chief enrollment officer. As a member of the Provost’s senior leadership team, the Senior Vice Provost provides strategic and operational leadership for the university’s enrollment enterprise and advises university leadership regarding enrollment strategy, student access and success, enrollment trends, institutional capacity, and the policies, resources, technologies, and services necessary to achieve NC State’s long‑term goals.
In this role, you will shape how NC State responds to a changing enrollment landscape. You will bring together academic, financial, operational, and student perspectives to anticipate emerging challenges and opportunities, navigate complex decisions, and build alignment around strategies that advance sustainable enrollment and student success. Your leadership will translate changing student demand and educational needs into action, expanding access to an NC State education, supporting student success, and advancing the university’s land‑grant mission.
Key Responsibilities fall within the following core functions:
- Develop and advance a comprehensive, long‑term enrollment strategy aligned with NC State’s strategic plan, academic priorities, land‑grant mission, institutional capacity, and the educational and workforce needs of North Carolina.
- Lead university‑wide enrollment planning, establishing goals and projections while assessing academic, financial, operational, technological, and student‑support capacity.
- Advise university leaders on enrollment opportunities, emerging trends, institutional capacity, student demand, demographic changes, and the potential enrollment and resource implications of university policies and strategic decisions.
- Lead university‑wide enrollment planning by facilitating collaborative processes to develop enrollment goals, evaluate academic and operational capacity, assess institutional readiness, and align enrollment strategies with university resources and priorities.
- Lead undergraduate enrollment strategies spanning recruitment, admission, enrollment, retention, progression, and graduation.
- Advance strategies that expand educational opportunity, reduce barriers, and strengthen student access, successful transitions, academic progress, retention, and timely degree completion.
- Lead continuous improvement of programs, services, policies, communications, and practices that shape the student enrollment experience.
- Strengthen enrollment communications and partnerships that communicate the value of an NC State education and support institutional enrollment priorities.
- Cultivate educational partnerships, including with the North Carolina Community College System, to strengthen pathways and expand opportunity.
- Provide executive leadership and fiscal stewardship for Enrollment Management and Services, aligning people, resources, technology, facilities, and operations with institutional priorities.
- Champion the strategic use of data, analytics, research, technology, and predictive modeling to inform enrollment strategy, resource planning, decision‑making, and outcomes.
- Lead long‑range organizational and operational planning that strengthens EMAS capacity, sustainability, innovation, and responsiveness.
- Ensure enrollment systems, policies, processes, and services are effective, coordinated, accessible, compliant, and responsive to evolving institutional and student needs.
- Build a high‑performing organization grounded in professional excellence, collaboration, accountability, innovation, ethical leadership, and a shared commitment to student success and public service.
- Establish priorities, accountability structures, and collaborative processes that translate institutional strategy into coordinated action across EMAS and the university.
- Build trusted relationships with academic and administrative leaders and represent EMAS in university planning, governance, policy development, and resource allocation.
- Represent NC State with the UNC System and external educational, governmental, professional, community, alumni, and other partners to advance enrollment and student‑success priorities and contribute to the field of enrollment management.
NC State welcomes leaders who bring sound judgment, curiosity, collaboration, and a commitment to listening and building trust across a complex university community. If you are energized by the opportunity to shape enrollment strategy, expand educational opportunity, and help advance the university’s mission through thoughtful and innovative leadership, we invite you to apply.
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A post‑baccalaureate degree and a minimum of ten years of progressively responsible leadership experience in higher education are required. All degrees must be received from appropriately accredited institutions.
- Senior leadership experience in enrollment management or a closely related higher education function, with responsibility for strategy, operations, resources, and outcomes across complex programs or organizational units.
- A record of developing and implementing comprehensive enrollment strategies that align institutional priorities with student demand, educational opportunity, and measurable enrollment and student‑success outcomes.
- Experience leading and advising within complex, decentralized organizations, using data and organizational insight to inform senior‑level decisions, build partnerships across academic and administrative units, navigate competing priorities, and establish shared accountability for results.
- Demonstrated Ability to lead organizational change and continuous improvement, including setting strategic priorities, developing effective teams, strengthening operations, managing significant resources, and advancing organizational performance.
- Proficiency in applying data, analytics, research, technology, forecasting, and other evidence to strategic decision‑making, with the ability to identify emerging needs, evaluate options, and improve organizational and student outcomes.
- Communication and relationship‑building skills that support collaboration and influence across organizational boundaries, including the ability to listen, facilitate, present, build trust, and exercise sound judgment in complex environments.
- A leadership approach grounded in collaboration, transparency, and student‑centered service, with a commitment to educational opportunity, institutional excellence, student achievement, public service, and NC State’s land‑grant mission.
- An earned doctoral or other terminal degree.
- Breadth across multiple enrollment management functions, including undergraduate admissions, financial aid and scholarships, registration and records, enrollment operations, student services, and student success.
- Experience with a public higher education system or similarly complex policy and governance environment, including system‑level planning, accountability, and resource considerations.
- A history of building partnerships with community colleges, public education systems, government agencies, and other external organizations to strengthen educational pathways and expand opportunity.
- Proficiency with enrollment forecasting, predictive analytics, scenario planning, or advanced enrollment technologies to inform strategy, planning, and institutional decision‑making.
- Professional leadership and engagement at the state, regional, or national level, including contributions to the broader field of enrollment management or higher education.
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