Assistant Dean for Enrollment Management

Simon Business School (“Simon”) at the University of Rochester seeks an innovative, data-driven, and proven enrollment leader to serve as the inaugural Assistant Dean for Enrollment Management (“ADEM”). Reporting directly to the Dean and serving on her senior leadership team as the School’s first chief enrollment officer, this is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned, creative, and deeply analytical leader to build a strategic approach to enrollment management within one of the nation’s top business schools. This critically important role will be vital to Simon’s mission, ensuring that the School continues to attract top students from around the world who will become leaders in business and management.

Founded in 1958, Simon is a top-ranked business school known for its academic rigor and tight-knit, diverse community. Throughout its storied history, Simon has been a leader in the business school arena, including as a first-mover in launching specialized degree programs with an emphasis on analytics. As Simon looks to be on the cutting edge of the next era of business education, the School seeks a strategic enrollment leader who can take its distinctively and celebrated high-touch admissions and financial aid process to the next level. 

In the ever shifting and evolving business education landscape, Simon is elevating the enrollment division into the Dean’s cabinet and prioritizing the evolution of the division’s work. The incoming ADEM will be asked to develop an innovative, sustainable, and data-informed enrollment management strategy to position the School to be nimble and reach its future enrollment goals. The ADEM will inherit and lead a seasoned and dedicated team of admissions professionals and collaborate with senior leaders across the School to implement proactive, innovative, and best-in-class approaches to recruit, evaluate, matriculate, and support a highly talented and diverse student body. 

The ideal candidate will bring a demonstrated record of accomplishment in leading data-informed methods for recruitment, market segmentation, distinguishing brand and articulating value propositions, admissions processes, and scholarship distribution. A collaborative leader, this individual will possess a deep understanding of the national trends and issues related to graduate student recruitment and will model and inspire a relentless commitment to innovation and continuous improvement. The Dean and senior team will call on this hire to serve as an informed advisor, helping to assess the School’s current array of programs, and help inform where additional academic program development might help shape the composition of the School’s student body and help to hit revenue targets. Mission-oriented, dedicated, and with a customer service-driven approach, this incoming leader will inherit a strong operation with an appetite to evolve to meet this challenging moment in business education.

Simon Business School has engaged Isaacson, Miller to assist in the search. This role will be based in Rochester, New York, and the target salary range is $200K to $250K and will be commensurate with experience. Confidential inquiries, nominations, and applications (including resume and cover letter) should be submitted electronically in confidence below. 

Carrie Alexander and Micah Pierce are leading this search with Kelly McLaughlin. 

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