Executive Vice Chancellor [Officer]
Career Family: Executive Professional Level: Executive Executive Vice Chancellor [Officer]
Career Family Job Summary: Jobs in this career family provide strategic leadership, decision-making, and operational oversight to ensure alignment with the institution's goals. These positions require exceptional leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills to drive growth and innovation. Executive roles collaborate with school, college and unit-level leaders, shared governance and other stakeholders to develop and implement effective strategies.
Professional Level Job Summary: Executive Vice Chancellors are senior officers for a campus, reporting to and acting on behalf of the chancellor. Positions serve as a principal advisor to the chancellor and the second in line of authority under the Chancellor. Positions may be the chief academic, financial, or business officer for the campus. [OFFICER]
Minimum Qualifications:
- A master's or terminal degree
- The position requires extensive diverse and progressively responsible experience at the management level in higher education.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 10 years experience in a senior leadership position or progressively responsible senior positions overseeing related work in a higher education setting.
- Experience with strategic planning implementation for a public urban research university, public-private partnerships and leading complex negotiations in politically-charged environments is highly preferred. Strong, demonstrated commitment and accomplishment in access and engagement.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
- Exceptional, consistent leadership and decision-making skills and abilities, including the ability to resolve complex issues, use facts and data in decision-making, and manage crises
- Ability to act with the highest of integrity and diplomacy at all times
- High levels of emotional intelligence and cultural competency
- Strong leadership and persuasion skills, including the ability to work effectively with varied personalities and tactfully influence others to take particular courses of action
- Strong intercultural and Interpersonal skills, including the ability to facilitate interaction, communication, and teamwork between diverse leaders and individuals
- Strong oral, written and listening communication skills, including the ability to accurately interpret what others are saying and convey messages, information, concepts, and details accurately and clearly
- Strong presentation skills, including the ability to adapt and share information with a variety of audiences in a resonate way that is easily understandable
- Strong negotiation and conciliation skills, including the ability to actively listen, build rapport, solve problems, make decisions, be necessarily assertive, and de-escalate conflicts and concerns
- Ability to work diplomatically with a wide range of individuals, with convergent and divergent perspectives
- Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple concurrent and competing tasks and responsibilities, and adapt to changing competing priorities
- Ability to solve complex problems and resolve challenging situations in productive ways, with adeptness and sensitivity
- Ability to navigate a complex political environment Ability to coach, mentor, develop and provide direction to others
- Ability to maintain the strictest of confidence and manage sensitive issues
- Must have flexibility with schedule to work outside of the traditional work week schedule as needed and travel as required.
Supervision Exercised: Yes
Salary: Grade 16-17
FLSA Status: Exempt