Associate Director, Academic Planning & Enrollment

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Located just three miles from the Pacific Ocean, CSULB offers an inspiring workplace and an exceptional Southern California lifestyle. Our 322-acre campus—one of the largest in the CSU system—serves more than 42,000 students and is known for its commitment to student success, innovation, and impactful academic and research initiatives.

As a member of the CSULB community, you’ll experience a dynamic environment filled with cultural landmarks, collaborative energy, and opportunities to make a meaningful difference.

Work-life balance thrives here. Long Beach blends coastal relaxation with urban vibrancy, offering miles of beaches, year-round sunshine, a thriving arts and food scene, and convenient access to both Los Angeles and Orange County. It’s an ideal place to grow your career while enjoying everything Southern California has to offer.

Join the California State University (CSU) and explore career opportunities that advance student success and strengthen California’s future—offering competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and professional growth.

The Director of Academic Planning & Enrollment provides strategic leadership for institutional research, analytics, and decision support related to academic planning, enrollment management, faculty workload, and course scheduling. Serves as the university's subject matter expert (SME) on academic planning and enrollment analytics and implements data-informed strategies, predictive analyses, and institutional reporting that support academic resource planning, student success, and enrollment optimization. 

• →XXDirects the design, development, and evaluation of academic planning and enrollment management initiatives to support data-informed decision-making.
• →XXData Governance, Quality and Continuous Improvement. Establishes and maintains data definitions, methodologies, and quality assurance practices for academic planning and enrollment reporting.
• →XXLeadership and Supervision. Provides leadership, supervision, mentoring, and professional development for institutional research staff responsible for academic planning and enrollment analytics.

Institutional Research & Analytics

This is a regular, at-will position.

Administrator II

The idea candidate will have expert working experience in machine and deep learning in higher education, working experience in Python scikit learn, Keras and Tensor Flow, working experience in SQL and Tableau, expert working experience in Higher Education Enrollment Planning and Analytics. Will also have working knowledge of desktop word processing and spreadsheet software. The ability to gather, compile and analyze research data, perform basic statistical analyses using PC-based software such as Excel and Python, and the ability to present data in various media (e.g., paper, electronic, web-based). They will also have expert working experience in presenting data and reports to both technical and non-technical audience, the ability to write and speak clearly, will work effectively with people from diverse racial/ethnic and cultural backgrounds, collaboratively and facilitate a customer service orientation.

Ability to communicate with an ethnically and culturally diverse campus community.  Ability to follow all university policies, procedures, and guidelines including but not limited to safety, civility, information security, and non-discrimination policies and procedures.  Ability to contribute to a positive university experience for each and every student and assist in achieving the university's commitment to a "vision of excellence."

• Equivalent to graduation from a four-year college or university, including or supplemented by a advanced understanding and applications of statistics, data mining, programming and data visualization is required. Graduate study in computer science, economics, mathematics, statistics, public or business administration, or engineering is highly desired.
• The position requires a minimum of 3 years of working experience in technical research, statistical work in the collection, compilation, and analysis of faculty, class and enrollment planning data, data warehousing and higher education business intelligence. A relevant work experience in Institutional Research in higher education including interpretation and presentation of faculty, class and enrollment planning data, demonstrated working experience of SQL/PLSQL programming ,Tableau, and People Soft will be given due consideration.
• This position requires a minimum of 1 year of working experience of leading and supervising a team of at least one data analyst and at least one student assistant. The supervisory experience requires recruiting, evaluating, coaching and optimizing talents and staff in a strong statistical, analytic, data management, and reporting and data visualization line of work.
• The position requires a minimum of three years of progressively responsible experience in machine learning and deep learning using Python.

Click “Apply Now” to complete the CSULB Online Employment Application.

Please fill out the application completely. It is important that all sections of the online application are completed fully and accurately. Be sure to include all relevant education and experience. Your application will be used to determine whether you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.

Sedentary work - Involves mainly sitting. Walking and standing are minimal. Lifting is limited to lightweight objects (10 pounds or less).

CSULB is not a sponsoring agency for staff and management positions (i.e. H-1B Visas).

A background check (including a criminal records check) must be completed satisfactorily and is required for employment. CSULB will make a conditional offer of employment, which may be rescinded if the background check reveals disqualifying information, and/or it is discovered that the candidate knowingly withheld or falsified information. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the continued employment of a current CSU employee who was conditionally offered the position.

Due to the nature of this position, current CSULB employees are subject to a criminal record check unless they have successfully completed a criminal background check through CSULB within the past 12 months.

The person holding this position is considered a 'mandated reporter' under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 Revised July 21, 2017 as a condition of employment.

Conflict of Interest: The duties of this position will include participation in decisions that may have a material financial benefit to the incumbent. Therefore, the selected candidate will be required to file Conflict of Interest Form 700: Statement of Economic Interest on an annual basis, complete ethics training within 6 months of appointment, and attend this training every other year thereafter.  

Consistent with California law and federal civil rights laws, CSULB provides equal opportunity in employment without unlawful discrimination or preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, national origin, or other protected status. CSULB complies with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the California Equity in Higher Education Act, California’s Proposition 209 (Art. I, Section 31 of the California Constitution), other applicable state and federal anti-discrimination laws, and CSU’s Nondiscrimination Policy. We prohibit discriminatory preferential treatment, segregation based on race or any other protected status, and all forms of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in all university programs, policies, and practices.

California State University Long Beach expects respectful, professional behavior from its employees in all situations. Acts of harassment or abusive conduct are prohibited. Demonstrated appropriate professional behavior, treating others with civility and respect, and refusing to tolerate abusive conduct is expected of all employees.

We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants with questions about access or requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should contact StaffHR-Accommodations@csulb.edu.

California State University, Long Beach, as part of the CSU system, is a State of California Employer. As such, the University requires all employees upon date of hire to reside in the State of California.

As of January 1, 2022 the CSU Out-of-State Employment Policy prohibits the hiring of employees to perform CSU-related work outside the state of California.

Advertised: Oct 28 2026 Pacific Daylight Time
Applications close: Nov 11 2026 Pacific Standard Time

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