Vice President Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Doctoral degree from an accredited institution in higher education, student affairs, education, organizational leadership, business administration, public administration, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible Student Affairs leadership experience, including significant senior-level leadership responsibility.
• Experience working within an institution offering medical, health professions, graduate, or other medical education-related academic programs.
• Significant experience developing, implementing, evaluating, or overseeing institutional policies.
• Knowledge of and experience with ADA/Section 504.
• Demonstrated experience leading organizational change and managing complex organizational initiatives.
• Significant experience with institutional or organizational strategic planning and implementation.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating directly with executive-level leadership.
• Experience working across multiple organizational units, academic programs, campuses, or locations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, collaboration, relationship-building, and shared accountability.
• Strong understanding of organizational management, institutional governance, and effective decision-making in higher education.
• Exceptional written, verbal, interpersonal, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to student success and a strong philosophy regarding Student Affairs’ role in supporting a university’s educational mission.
• Strategic leadership ability to anticipate institutional needs, recognize opportunities, and translate vision into executable strategy.
• Student-centered leadership and understanding of how Student Affairs contributes to academic achievement, professional formation, engagement, and the overall student experience.
• Organizational acumen, including ability to identify opportunities for efficiency and effectiveness and design structures and processes that support institutional goals.
• Ability to lead significant change while maintaining trust, communication, engagement, and momentum.
• Strong understanding of policy development, governance, implementation, communication, and assessment.
• Executive presence, sound judgment, discretion, integrity, confidence, and credibility in complex or sensitive matters.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and facilitate productive dialogue among diverse groups.
• Ability to adapt in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and innovative environment and to move from strategy to execution with accountability and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing in English, work cooperatively with colleagues and supervisors at all levels, and use equipment such as computers, telephones, and calculators.
• Ability to travel approximately 40% to RVU campus locations.
• Final applicants must pass a background check and drug screening.

Nice To Haves

• Executive-level leadership experience within a university or health professions education environment.
• Experience supporting an institution undergoing significant growth, organizational transformation, or development of new academic programs.
• Experience working with graduate, professional, osteopathic medical, veterinary medical, or other health professions students.
• Experience designing or implementing university-wide organizational structures, policies, or operational models.
• Experience with accreditation, regulatory, or institutional compliance matters relevant to health professions education.
• Doctoral or terminal degree in higher education, education, organizational leadership, student affairs, business, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Serve as RVU’s Chief Student Affairs Officer and provide university-wide executive leadership for Student Affairs across Colorado, Utah, and Montana.
• Develop and advance a Student Affairs philosophy and framework centered on student success, experience, belonging, professional development, and well-being.
• Align Student Affairs structures, services, policies, practices, and procedures across campuses while accommodating legitimate programmatic and campus-specific needs.
• Set expectations and accountability for Student Affairs leadership and operations, and promote systems for student support, engagement, advocacy, communication, and issue resolution.
• Partner with academic leadership and campus stakeholders to strengthen the connection between academic and student experiences and to identify and address barriers to student success.
• Use student outcomes, feedback, institutional data, and best practices to guide continuous improvement in Student Affairs.
• Advocate for policies, organizational structures, staffing models, and resources that support students and RVU’s educational mission.
• Serve as a senior advisor to the President on institutional strategy, organizational development, university priorities, and emerging opportunities.
• Support the Rocky Vista University Military Medicine Program and develop strategies for its growth and success.
• Partner with the President, Chief Academic Officer, Deans, and executive leaders to develop, implement, and evaluate strategic priorities.
• Translate institutional strategy into actionable goals, initiatives, operating plans, and measurable outcomes, and align priorities across colleges, campuses, divisions, and programs.
• Lead or facilitate major university-wide strategic initiatives and provide executive leadership for strategic planning, implementation, assessment, accountability, and refinement.
• Identify ways to improve organizational effectiveness, operational efficiency, collaboration, and institutional performance; provide strategic analysis and recommendations to the President.
• Cultivate and expand RVU’s research enterprise by identifying opportunities, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and developing strategies to strengthen research capacity, funding, and impact.
• Lead the development, review, implementation, communication, and ongoing improvement of university policies and policy-governance processes.
• Work across academic and administrative units to identify policy inconsistencies, duplication, gaps, or outdated practices and promote alignment across campuses.
• Clarify the relationship between university and college policies, procedures, guidelines, and operational practices; ensure policies support compliance, accreditation, operations, the mission, and strategic priorities.
• Facilitate collaborative policy development involving appropriate executive, faculty, staff, student, and campus perspectives.
• Identify opportunities to streamline operations, strengthen collaboration, reduce unnecessary duplication, and improve organizational effectiveness.
• Lead significant organizational change initiatives with the President and other executive leaders; evaluate structures, processes, and workflows and recommend improvements.
• Facilitate cross-functional work and develop scalable systems and structures to support RVU’s growth and complexity.
• Build consensus around complex initiatives while maintaining communication, stakeholder engagement, momentum, and accountability; support leaders in implementing strategic decisions.
• Build trusted relationships with university leaders, faculty, staff, students, and campus leadership; foster open communication, collaboration, transparency, and shared accountability.
• Communicate institutional priorities clearly, listen to stakeholders across campuses, facilitate complex conversations, and represent the President and University on initiatives and committees as assigned.
• Travel approximately 40% to RVU campus locations to strengthen cross-campus collaboration, institutional culture, and alignment.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• At least two weeks of accrued paid vacation per year
• 12 accrued sick days per year
• Personal days
• 13.5 paid holidays per year
• 401(k) match up to 7%, based on employee contribution
• Hybrid work model with remote flexibility for eligible positions