Enrollment Reporting Lead

Enrollment Reporting Lead

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Ames, IA

time type

Full time

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job requisition id

R20053

Position Title: Enrollment Reporting Lead

Job Group: Professional & Scientific

Required Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of related experience

Job Description:

Turn data into understanding. Help shape what comes next.

Iowa State University is seeking an Enrollment Reporting Lead to help teams turn complex data into clear insights and informed decisions. Your work will support recruitment, enrollment planning, and student success—helping us better serve our Cyclones in the Making and the students they become.

We’re a “creative yes” organization. We approach challenges with curiosity, explore what’s possible, and work together to find a path forward. If you enjoy uncovering what people need to know and building the tools that help them act, you’ll find meaningful work here.

Your impact

You’ll serve as Enrollment Management’s primary data storyteller, lead a reporting team, and shape how enrollment information is delivered and understood. Working across Admissions, the Registrar’s Office, Financial Aid, and campus partners, you will:

• Make data meaningful. Translate complex enrollment information into clear, accurate, visually compelling reports and dashboards that help people make decisions.
• Build useful solutions. Develop SQL queries, automated reports, and dashboards using tools such as Excel, Salesforce, and Power BI. Turn recurring requests into reliable, accessible reporting.
• Connect questions to answers. Guide reporting requests from intake through delivery, clarifying needs, setting priorities, and keeping partners informed.
• Lead and develop people. Supervise, coach, and support reporting staff, creating clear expectations and opportunities to grow.
• Deliver reporting projects. Coordinate requirements, timelines, testing, and stakeholder input for cross-functional dashboards, executive analytics, and regulatory reporting support.
• Build confidence in the data. Lead development of an Enrollment Management data dictionary, establish consistent definitions with campus partners, and help colleagues use reporting tools effectively.

What will help you thrive

You pair technical skill with a storyteller’s instinct. You ask thoughtful questions, care about accuracy, and explain findings in ways that resonate with different audiences. You bring a project leader’s discipline to the work by turning requests into clear plans, coordinating people and priorities, and following through from initial requirements to a tested, useful solution. You communicate proactively, address roadblocks, and keep projects moving. You enjoy developing people as much as improving processes and can balance immediate reporting needs with solutions that make everyone’s work easier over time.

Why Iowa State

Your work will help university leaders and campus teams understand enrollment trends, evaluate strategies, and make decisions that support students throughout their Iowa State experience.

You’ll have opportunities to shape reporting practices across Enrollment Management, develop your team, and see your work inform university decisions. Conferences, training, and a national peer network will support your continued professional growth.

Bring your curiosity, technical expertise, and talent for making data make sense. Help us turn insight into action.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with higher education or Enrollment Management data.
• Experience with data governance, data dictionaries, or data quality.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, or developing staff.
• Experience applying data visualization and user-centered design principles to create clear, intuitive, and effective reports and dashboards.
• Experience leading and managing projects from conception through development, implementation, and completion.

About Enrollment Management

Enrollment Management brings together key university functions that support students throughout their enrollment journey, including Admissions, Financial Aid, and the Registrar. The division works collaboratively across campus to recruit and enroll students, support their success, and provide the information and services they need from application through graduation.

By connecting people, processes, technology, and data across these areas, Enrollment Management plays an important role in helping the university understand its enrollment landscape and make informed decisions that support students and institutional goals.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. on an ongoing basis without sponsorship. Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Appointment Type: Regular

Number of Months Employed Per Year: 12 Month Work Period

Time Type: Full time

Pay Grade: PS810

Original Posting Date: October 8, 2026

Posting Close Date: October 25, 2026

Job Requisition Number: R20053

Iowa State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, ethnicity, religion, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, genetic information, sex, marital status, disability, or status as a U.S. Veteran. Inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies may be directed to Office of Equal Opportunity, 2680 Beardshear Hall, 515 Morrill Road, Ames, Iowa 50011, Tel. 515-294-7612, email [email protected].

General ISU compensation information can be found on the University Human Resources website. Please note that this is only a list of ranges and individuals will be paid commensurate with qualifications.

Current employees (excluding temporary, student and graduate assistants) must apply through the Workday Internal Careers Hub.

About Us

By focusing on the future and providing the best student experience possible, Iowa State University attracts students and faculty who want to make a difference. With a comprehensive land-grant mission of education, research, extension and outreach, we produce scholars whose ideas change the world. And through Innovate at Iowa State, we provide innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities for students of all backgrounds. Located just 30 minutes north of Des Moines, the city of Ames was recently named one of the Top 10 cities in the U.S. for campus life and career opportunities.

Iowa State University is a welcoming community of students, faculty, and staff. Campus community members have a wide range of backgrounds and experiences and are committed to engaging with each other respectfully as outlined in the university's Principles of Community. Iowa State recognizes that diverse intellectual and philosophical perspectives are vital to innovation, critical thinking skills, and a dynamic academic community that fosters the land-grant ideals of putting science, technology, and human creativity to work.

All offers of employment, oral and written, are contingent upon the university’s verification of credentials and other information required by federal and state law, ISU policies/procedures, and may include the completion of a background check and/or a consumer credit check.

Iowa State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, ethnicity, religion, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, genetic information, sex, marital status, disability, or status as a U.S. Veteran. Inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies may be directed to Office of Equal Opportunity, 2680 Beardshear Hall, 515 Morrill Road, Ames, Iowa 50011, Tel. 515-294-7612, email [email protected].

If you have questions about the application process please email [email protected] or call 515-294-4800 or Toll-Free at 1-877-477-7485. Iowa State University provides reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants with questions about access or requiring a r