Vice President for Global Recruitment, Admissions, and Financial Aid

Position Summary

As a senior leader within the Global Enrollment Management and Student Success (GEMSS) Division, the Vice President for Global Recruitment, Admissions, and Financial Aid reports to the Senior Vice President for Global Enrollment, Student Success, and Strategic Positioning. The Vice President is responsible for translating the Division's goals into coordinated, high‑performing undergraduate recruitment, admissions, financial aid, and pre‑college operations across NYU's global campuses, including New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai.

The Vice President leads a team of roughly 120 FTEs and 6 direct reports across the global campuses, working closely with Student Success, Alumni Relations and Enrollment Marketing and Strategic Communications. This senior leader operates in close partnership with campus leadership, academic schools, and GEMSS colleagues to ensure alignment of recruitment, admissions, and affordability strategies with University‑wide goals, governance, and long‑term sustainability.

In partnership with GEMSS leadership, the Vice President will play a central role in executing NYU's undergraduate new student enrollment strategies—driving recruitment, admissions, and financial aid efforts that support class composition, academic quality, and net revenue performance across this complex, global institution.

Key Opportunities

The Vice President will:

• Drive a coordinated global recruitment and admissions strategy.
• Strengthen financial aid as a strategic lever.
• Lead operational excellence in admissions.
• Operate effectively in a complex environment.
• Lead and develop a distributed organization.

Qualifications

Required Education: Master’s Degree in Higher Education, Business, Law, Communication, K‑12 Education, or another related field.

Preferred Education: Doctoral Degree in the same fields.

Required Experience: 15+ years of professional experience developing successful recruitment initiatives, mentoring and/or engaging community stakeholders, and supervising staff. Significant experience developing organizational strategy for an undergraduate recruitment, admissions, and financial aid unit that directly impacts decision‑making at the senior executive level.

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities: Energetic leader with outstanding written, oral and interpersonal skills, broad knowledge of higher education leadership, access, recruitment and yield outcomes, budgeting, operational planning, program planning and development, and human resource management. Ability to build relationships with deans, faculty, external organizations, high‑school and college counselors and other key administrators to inspire action. Strong organizational, data‑gathering, analytical, and reporting skills and familiarity with undergraduate and pre‑college pipelines.

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Abilities: Well versed in Financial Aid and Title IV policies and compliance, understanding of recruitment strategies, experience with global recruitment, and a track record of data and analytic approach to recruitment strategies and outcomes.

Additional Information

In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is USD $405,000.00 to USD $475,000.00. NYU aims to be among the greenest urban campuses in the country and carbon neutral by 2040 (see nyu.edu
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NYU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its recruitment and hiring process without regard to age, alienage, caregiver status, childbirth, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, domestic violence victim status, ethnicity, familial status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital status, military status, national origin, parental status, partnership status, predisposing genetic characteristics, pregnancy, race, religion, reproductive health decision making, sex, sexual orientation, unemployment status, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. All interested persons are encouraged to apply at all levels.

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