Project Manager for Strategic Enrollment Initiatives
Job Description
Job Summary:
Reporting to the Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Services and Enrollment Management (ASEM), the Project Manager for Strategic Enrollment Initiatives (SEI) serves as a resource for researching, planning, implementing, and evaluating strategic enrollment initiatives at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The incumbent will provide project management, change management, business analysis, and continuous process improvement support across ASEM functional domains. This individual will manage multiple projects, initiatives, and associated tasks simultaneously—ranging in degree of complexity—in support of enrollment marketing, communications, and visitor experience; outreach; admissions and recruitment; scholarship and financial aid; new student enrollment and orientations, and registrar-related initiatives. The incumbent will be expected to research, analyze data and information, develop plans, presentations, reports and proposals and track progress on sundry initiatives. Effective collaboration with a range of UNL constituents; across other UN campuses; with K-12, community colleges, and four-year colleges and universities; higher education partners; and vendors is an ongoing and essential to the effective functioning of the position.
About Us:
At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, we’re proud to be consistently recognized by Forbes as a top employer, known for our welcoming and supportive work environment, commitment to professional growth, and outstanding benefits. UNL isn’t just a workplace, it's a place to build your career and make a real impact in Nebraska.
When you join our team as a full-time, regular staff member, you’ll enjoy:
- Ample paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, parental leave, and holidays
- Comprehensive insurance options including medical, dental, vision, and life
- Employee & dependent scholarship program to pursue higher education
- Generous retirement plans with a university match
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of experience working in a higher education setting that includes; project management, change management, stakeholder engagement, and/or enrollment and student success efforts.
- Knowledge of higher education undergraduate recruitment, admissions, and/or enrollment strategies and tactics.
- Strong understanding of higher education CRM technologies for recruitment.
- Strong critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience building strong professional relationships with a variety of constituents.
- Ability to manage and deliver sensitive information, tactfully and professionally.
- Ability to understand and use recruitment, admissions, and enrollment-related data, with the ability to effectively communicate related data trends to various audiences.
- Strong interpersonal skills to allow for effective and positive communication (verbal, written, electronic) with a variety of stakeholders groups across the university.
Preferred Qualifications:
The following qualifications are preferred but not required:
- Master's degree and five (5) years of experience working in a higher education setting
- Experience working in a public 4-year university
- Strong Project Management, change management stakeholder engagement and/or enrollment management
- Ability to facilitate and coordinate teams in a higher education setting
- Knowledge of issues and national trends related to recruitment and enrollment of undergraduate students.
- Experience working with project management and change management tools and techniques
- Experience analyzing, synthesizing, and presenting a variety of different inputs to reports and other documents in a variety of formats
- Experience working with MS Excel, Qualtrics, Tableau or other data visualization products
- Familiarity with benchmarking and research procedures in higher education or similar complex organizations
- Experience working and supporting ASEM functional domains, particularly marketing and recruitment
Ideal Candidate Statement:
The Project Manager for SEI must be able to work effectively in a highly complex and dynamic organization while juggling multiple, shifting, and competing priorities. Thus, the incumbent must be an excellent communicator, planner, collaborator and problem-solver. They will have exceptional attention to detail, be creative, and have experience using a range of strategies, tools, and techniques to plan, manage, complete and evaluate project and change initiatives. They will demonstrate a consistent and strong focus on the user experience and be dedicated to continuous learning toward developing new skills to effectively identify efficiencies and affect change.
Compliance Requirements:
If selected for this position and a verbal offer is accepted, the final written offer will be contingent upon the successful completion of the following required pre-employment check(s):
Criminal history background check
Additional Information
Please upload the following documents:
- Cover Letter
- List of three professional references
Information at a Glance
Req Id:
1217
Campus Label:
University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL)
Org Unit:
Academic Services & Enrollment Mgmt UNL
Job Location:
Lincoln, NE 68588
Application Review Date:
10/10/25
Open Until Filled:
Yes
Advertised Salary:
$72,000 yr/ minimum
Job Type:
Full-Time
Worksite Eligibility:
On-site
Benefits Eligible:
Yes
For questions or accommodations related to this position contact:
Sandy Airan, sairan2@unl.edu
Special Instructions to Applicant:
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Posting Start Date:
10/2/25