Senior Associate Dean of Admissions Recruitment and Engagement

Job Description:

The Senior Associate Dean of Admissions is a seasoned, strategic thinking, and principled professional reporting to the Vice President for Admissions and Financial Aid. The Senior Associate Dean serves as a key officer on the experienced Admission & Financial Aid leadership team. Specifically, this Senior Associate Dean is charged with the planning, training and execution of undergraduate recruitment efforts, both on and off campus and across audiences and stakeholders.

Washington and Lee University actively promotes a dynamic and inclusive environment that allows students and employees of multiple backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives to learn, work, and thrive together. Successful candidates will contribute to that environment and exhibit potential for excellence in their areas of expertise.

Essential Functions:

• Serves as senior leader of the admissions and financial aid team, particularly focused on tactical and strategic enrollment planning and budget prioritization.
  
  
• In close partnership with Associate Director of Admissions, has particular responsibility for undergraduate recruitment strategies, including territory and travel planning, national partnerships, professional development and campus visit team support.
  
  
• Leads the division’s focus on key enrollment goals, notably increasing applications to promote the undergraduate division’s socio-economic and ethnic diversity.
  
  
• Oversees transfer application process, including managing communication, assessment and yield for university’s annual transfer goals.
  
  
• Supervises select members of the admission staff. Responsible for hiring, training and providing employees with ongoing coaching and thoughtful performance feedback.
  
  
• Seeks and nurtures collaborative partnerships with internal and external audiences.
  
  
• Works in close partnership with the Director of Financial Aid to insure the synthesis of each department’s engagement among prospective student audiences and s erves as a liaison to financial aid during prospective and current student appeals process.
  
  
• Participates in extensive recruitment related travel, represents the University at admission-sponsored events, interviews prospective students and evaluates applications.
  
  
• Represents the Vice President of Admission and Financial Aid and the division in their absence at on and off campus obligations.
  
  
• Other related duties as assigned.
  
  

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Work Schedule: M-F 8:30-4:30, this position requires frequent travel.

Minimum Qualifications: P ossess at least ten years of progressively responsible experience in highly selective college admission. A bachelor’s degree is required; an advanced degree is preferred. Proven supervisory effectiveness is expected. A demonstrated dedication to a residential liberal arts education, an appreciation for diversity and community, the ability to work well collaboratively as well as independently, a high level of energy and responsibility, and keen planning and organizational skills are highly valued characteristics. Travel (four to six weeks per year), evening and weekend hours, and a valid driver’s license are required.

Application Instructions:

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. A resume and cover letter are required. Attach both documents in the Resume/CV document upload section of the application. You will be asked to provide names and contact information for three professional references.

External Applicants: Application instructions for external applicants are located on the jobs.wlu.edu or here .

Current W&L Employees: Apply from your existing Workday account. Instructions are located at jobs.wlu.edu or here .

Physical Requirements:

• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
  
  
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
  
  
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
  
  

Working Conditions: The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions.

Types of Work: Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Position Type:

Position Type: Exempt, Full Time, Benefit Eligible

Minimum Pay:

$89,663.00 - Pay Commensurate with Experience

The university requires employees to become fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and new employees must provide proof of at least their first shot prior to the first day of employment. Boosters are required. Individuals may seek a medical or a religious exemption to the vaccination requirement.