About the University
Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.
Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.
About the Department
The division of Enrollment and Student Services and the Office of Admissions support Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.
The mission of WWU's Office of Admissions is to identify, attract, admit, and help enroll today’s brightest scholars and most promising future leaders. We will counsel and evaluate prospective students as individuals with unique strengths, needs, and paths as we build an increasingly diverse, talented, and dynamic student body.
About the Position
Reporting to the Director of Admissions, the Assistant/Associate Director, Admissions & Systems oversees the entire range of technology functions of the Office of Admissions (with the exception of web design and development). The position manages systems and operations that support critical areas of recruitment, applications, enrollment, and communications. This position cultivates and supports strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders in order to maximize on the opportunities and address the challenges associated with integrating technical systems. Opportunities exist through the adoption of best practices, maximization of efficiencies, streamlining of processes, and enhancement of staff skills. The position's work will have a direct impact on the recruitment-to-enrollment continuum of prospective students of various types—dual enrollment high school, first-year (freshmen), transfer, domestic, international, post-baccalaureate, and location-based programs, as well as (at the associate director level) for certificate, graduate, and returning students.
(for Associate Director) The team member will also participate in university-wide enrollment work, supporting the Strategic Enrollment Management planning process, working with leadership in Enrollment Management, and assisting in the development of the university's enrollment plan. This position will also work collaboratively with systems and data professionals from across the Enrollment Management unit to implement tactics and strategies to further the university's effort to reaching its enrollment goals.
Position Duties / Responsibilities
Lead the planning, development, integration, and deployment of technological products, strategies and tactics (50%)
Data Custodianship and Training (20%)
Supervision and Leadership (15%)
Enrollment Management (for Associate Director) (10%)
Other Duties as Assigned (5%)
For Required Qualifications, Conditions of Employment, and to Apply, visit WWU's job site here: https://hr.wwu.edu/careers-staff?job=501945
Remote work option available for Washington-based candidates/employees