Develop long-term scheduling strategies that support enrollment
growth, student persistence, and degree completion.
Establish departmental goals, KPIs, operational benchmarks, and
performance measures.
Lead, mentor, and develop scheduling leaders and staff while
fostering accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous
improvement.
Represent scheduling operations in university-wide strategic
planning and executive leadership initiatives.
Lead organizational change related to scheduling policies,
systems, processes, and operational enhancements.
Evaluate the enrollment and financial impact of scheduling
strategies, including course demand, section utilization,
instructional capacity, faculty allocation, and schedule
efficiency.
Provide recommendations that balance student progression and
course access with responsible institutional resource
management.
Strategic Scheduling & Process Improvement
- Direct the development and execution of university-wide course
schedules across Worldwide instructional modalities and
locations.
- Partner with Academic Colleges and Academic Affairs to align
course offerings with program growth, enrollment demand, and
faculty capacity.
- Develop forecasting models to optimize course availability,
section management, classroom utilization, and faculty workload
distribution.
- Establish consistent, accurate, and scalable scheduling
processes.
- Lead strategic reviews of scheduling practices and implement
improvements that enhance operational effectiveness and student
outcomes.
- Establish measures of schedule effectiveness, including course
accessibility, academic progression, time-to-degree barriers, and
completion of program requirements.
University Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as the senior scheduling advisor to executive leadership,
deans, department chairs, and administrative leaders.
- Facilitate collaboration among Academic Affairs, Student
Success, Enrollment Management, Institutional Research, Finance,
and Site Operations.
- Lead cross-functional committees and working groups focused on
academic planning, enrollment management, and resource
optimization.
- Resolve complex scheduling challenges and institutional
resource conflicts.
- Provide leadership recommendations regarding scheduling
policies, priorities, and operational impacts.
- Exercise delegated decision-making authority for Worldwide
scheduling operations, standards, priorities, and resource
allocation within established university policies.
- Escalate matters requiring academic or executive approval as
appropriate.
Data Analytics, Technology Integration & Decision
Support
- Use predictive analytics and institutional data to inform
strategic scheduling decisions and evaluate effectiveness.
- Develop executive-level dashboards, performance reports,
forecasting models, and decision-support tools.
- Analyze enrollment trends, student progression, faculty loads,
utilization, and other institutional metrics.
- Lead the evaluation, implementation, and optimization of
scheduling technologies and automation solutions.
- Identify opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence and
advanced analytics to improve forecasting, planning, and scheduling
efficiency.
- Lead scenario modeling and capacity planning to anticipate
changes in enrollment, program growth, student demand, faculty
availability, modality, geographic requirements, and institutional
priorities.
Governance, Compliance & Operational Oversight
- Establish and maintain university-wide scheduling standards,
policies, and procedures.
- Ensure scheduling practices align with institutional
requirements, accreditation standards, faculty agreements, and
applicable regulatory guidelines.
- Oversee quality assurance processes to ensure the accuracy and
integrity of course schedules.
- Monitor scheduling risks and implement controls to minimize
errors and operational disruptions.
- Provide oversight of budgetary and resource planning associated
with scheduling operations.
About us
For over 100 years, Embry-Riddle has been the world's leading
aviation and aerospace university, educating more than 30,000
students across residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and
Prescott, Arizona, as well as through a global network of Worldwide
locations and online programs. With more than 165,000 alumni around
the world, our impact reaches every corner of the aerospace,
aviation, defense and technology industries.
Today, our faculty, researchers and professional staff are
advancing innovation across aviation, space, artificial
intelligence, cybersecurity, autonomous systems and next-generation
engineering. Working alongside industry leaders, government
agencies and innovators, they are solving real-world challenges and
shaping the technologies that will define tomorrow.
Whether you are an educator, researcher, administrator,
technologist or industry professional, your work at Embry-Riddle
will contribute to something bigger than a job. Join a community
driven by discovery, purpose and excellence—and help shape the
future of aerospace.
- Generous Time Off: Enjoy up to 18 days of paid
leave in your first year, including 3 days granted upon hire and 15
days accrued throughout the year. You'll also receive 9+ paid
holidays, including the day after Thanksgiving and the week between
Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.
- Tuition Coverage: Get 100% tuition coverage
for yourself for one undergraduate and one graduate degree, and
discounted rates for your spouse and dependent children up to age
26.
- Retirement Contributions: ERAU contributes 6%
of your base salary to your retirement plan and offers a 4%
matching contribution – with no vesting period.
- Personal Leave: Relax with 15 days of personal
leave for non-exempt employees or 18 days for exempt full-time
employees in your first year.
Qualifications
Required Education
- Master’s degree from an accredited institution.
- Preferred areas of concentration: Higher Education,
Business Administration, Organizational Leadership, or a related
field.
Required Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
- 7–10 years of progressively responsible experience in
higher education operations, academic scheduling, enrollment
management, academic administration, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of leadership experience managing
professional staff, complex operations, and organizational
initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale operational,
process, or organizational change initiatives.
- Exceptional leadership, team-building, and organizational
management skills, with a proven ability to develop high-performing
teams.
- Advanced analytical skills with the ability to interpret
complex data and translate insights into strategic decisions.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and relationship-building
skills, with demonstrated success working across academic and
administrative units.
- Proficiency with academic scheduling systems, enterprise
technologies, and other relevant software and tools.
- Demonstrated experience strategically leveraging academic
technologies, scheduling platforms, data analytics, automation, and
emerging technologies to improve organizational performance and
decision-making.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate with senior
academic and administrative leaders within a complex, matrixed
organization.
- Demonstrated ability to translate institutional strategy,
enrollment forecasts, academic requirements, student progression
data, and resource capacity into scalable operational and
scheduling strategies.
- Strong understanding of academic planning, enrollment dynamics,
faculty workload, course demand, and resource allocation.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, resolve complex
operational challenges, and make data-informed recommendations in a
fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement policies,
processes, performance measures, and governance frameworks that
support operational consistency and continuous improvement.
Required Experience
- 5–10 years of progressively responsible experience in
higher education operations, academic scheduling, enrollment
management, academic administration, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of leadership experience managing
professional staff and organizational initiatives
To submit your application for this opportunity, please visit the
Embry-Riddle Career Site and search for
requisition number
R312000. Please attach all relevant
materials to your application when you apply online. Complete
submissions include:
- Cover letter
- Resume
- Contact information for at least three professional references
(please note that references may be contacted as part of the
interview/screening process)
Current Embry-Riddle employees: Please apply directly
through the ERAU Employee Hub Central application within
Workday.
Embry-Riddle is committed to fostering a workplace where all
individuals are valued and respected. We strive to ensure that all
faculty, staff, and students are treated fairly and provided equal
opportunities for employment, advancement, compensation, training,
and other benefits of employment. Embry-Riddle makes employment
decisions — including hiring, promotions, compensation, and other
terms of employment — based on individual merit, qualifications,
and abilities. Embry-Riddle is strongly opposed to discrimination
and harassment, and such behavior is prohibited by university
policy. Embry-Riddle does not discriminate on the basis of race,
color, national origin, sex, disability, veteran status,
predisposing genetic characteristics, age, religion, or pregnancy
status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local
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