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ASSOC VICE PROVOST, SEM
Job Title: ASSOC VICE PROVOST, SEM
Job Code: 2633
FLSA: E
Job Level: 98
Revised Date: 10/01/2025
Job Family: JF 28
Occupational Summary
The AVP for Strategic Enrollment Management will serve as the senior leader responsible for designing, implementing, and assessing a comprehensive enrollment strategy that aligns with Duke University???s mission and institutional priorities. Reporting directly to the Executive Vice Provost, the AVP will lead a coordinated, data-informed approach to recruitment, financial aid, student success, retention, and academic integration. A central focus of this role will be creating and sustaining an academic feedback loop that ensures enrollment decisions and student outcomes are directly informed by faculty perspectives and curricular insights. The AVP will also teach one course per term, providing direct access to students and ensuring the role remains closely connected to the academic experience it seeks to support.
Work Performed
Recruitment and Yield
Lead coordinated recruitment and yield strategies to shape class composition in alignment with institutional priorities and informed by academic leaders.
Advance access for Pell-eligible, first-generation, transfer, veteran, and other historically marginalized students.
Strengthen pipelines such as the Carolina Initiative, Durham Tech partnership, and College Advising Corps.
Financial Aid Strategy
Work closely with financial aid to make sure recruitment and yield goals are in alignment with budget realities.
Collaborate with Financial Aid and the Budget Office to model aid strategies that balance access, affordability, and sustainability.
Ensure competitive positioning in the national financial aid landscape.
Student Success
Build formal structures to engage faculty in enrollment conversations, ensuring academic voices shape recruitment and retention strategies.
Working with OUE, establish metrics for success that extend beyond enrollment to student outcomes and graduation rates.
Develop a feedback loop where faculty input on student preparedness and performance informs recruitment messaging, advising, and pre-enrollment programming.
Collaborate with deans and program leaders to anticipate curricular needs and capacity, aligning enrollment with academic strengths.
Use outcomes data to identify where students excel or struggle academically, ensuring enrollment strategy supports long-term student achievement.
Partner with faculty and schools to create early intervention and bridge programs that prepare students for Duke???s academic rigor.
Data-Driven Decision Making
Oversee the development of unified analytics, dashboards, and predictive models for enrollment forecasting.
Create and implement a robust assessment framework with measurable KPIs. Ensure data accessibility across offices, driving collaboration and evidence-based decision-making.
Collaboration & Institutional Alignment
Chair and coordinate the SEM Council, including leaders from Admissions, Financial Aid, Registrar, Institutional Research, Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, and the faculty.
Ensure strong alignment between enrollment goals, institutional mission, and academic priorities.
Serve as a university-wide thought leader and external representative in national enrollment forums.
Required Qualifications at this Level
Education/Training
PhD degree in a relevant field required.
Experience
The AVP must have at least 7 years of experience in enrollment management and higher education leadership with a college or university administration, including at least 3 years at the leadership level. The AVP must have significant experience in enrollment management and higher education leadership with demonstrated success in strategic planning, change management, and cross-unit collaboration. We expect the AVP to have expertise in enrollment analytics, financial aid policy, student success strategies, and faculty engagement. The AVP must have a strong commitment to diversity, equity and access in higher education as well as excellent communication, leadership and relationship-building skills.
Skills
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.
Duke University is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, (including pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions), sexual orientation, or military status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas-an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
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