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Vice Provost for Enrollment

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University of Virginia
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Charlottesville, VA

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Job location: Charlottesville, VA


Employment Type: Full-time
Posted data: 2019-12-12
Req: R0012473
The University of Virginia (UVA) seeks a national leader to serve as the inaugural Vice Provost for Enrollment (Vice Provost). Reporting to Provost Elizabeth Magill, the Vice Provost will work with senior leaders in the University, including the President and Chief Operating Officer, to integrate and oversee a single unified Office of Enrollment, including the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, the Office of Student Financial Services, and the Office of the University Registrar. The office will provide an enhanced and cohesive enrollment experience for students throughout all phases of the student lifecycle.

The Vice Provost will develop and implement an innovative strategy to attract applicants, select and recruit admitted students to the University, and support their financial and enrollment needs as students, including academic records, financial aid, and bursar services. In doing so, the Vice Provost will take a systematic and data-driven approach to anticipating the changing higher education landscape, demographic shifts, and student needs.

With an enrollment of just over 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students, UVA is known for its student experience, access, affordability, and commitment to excellence in teaching and research. UVA seeks a Vice Provost who will grasp the exceptional nature of this preeminent University and will spearhead an assessment and develop a forward-looking strategy to enhance UVA’s current practices, from recruitment to admission to student financial and academic services.

Key Priorities
  • Develop and execute a strategic plan that integrates recruitment, admission, enrollment, and student services to provide seamless transitions and high quality service throughout a student’s life-cycle at UVA, from recruitment and admission, to financial aid, academic records, and graduation.
  • Document, analyze, and, as needed, refine processes, policies, technologies, and resources dedicated to delivering admission, financial aid, and enrollment student services to ensure that they are structured and managed optimally and effectively to support student success.
  • Cultivate strong collaborative relationships across the institution to ensure that admission, enrollment, and student services are well integrated with the work of academic schools and other key institutional partners, including Student Affairs, Information Technology Services, and academic support units reporting to the Provost, particularly the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs.
  • Integrate a deep commitment to inclusive excellence into every aspect of the unit’s work.
  • Fully harmonize admission and student financial functions to provide best-in-class coordination and consistent analysis of the financial aid strategy to attract, retain, and serve the students UVA seeks to educate.
  • Oversee student selection, drive strategy, and provide guidance for student recruitment, evaluation, and yield while leveraging financial aid to recruit the very best, brightest, and diverse student body.
  • Lead the successful operation delivery of all aspects of application processing; SFS regulations, compliance and audit functions; communication; and data management.
  • Provide leadership, direction, research, and planning in formulating recruitment strategies for target markets and collaborate with University communications to execute.
  • Build an enrollment and aid strategy that takes into account access, affordability, debt, and support to current and prospective students.

The Vice Provost will be a collaborative, people-centric, data-driven decision-maker able to lead a next-generation enrollment strategy that leverages advanced analytics and technologies to ensure UVA is a leader in delivering integrated and high quality admission, enrollment, and student services. They will have successful experience leading institutional initiatives, strategic planning, change management, program development, and enrollment promotion.

The Vice Provost will have the following:

  • Aptitude for creative, inspiring, and accomplished leadership with the highest level of commitment to advancing the organization’s goals
  • Proven ability in growing and sustaining racial, ethnic, and economic diversity in a student body and a deep understanding of the value of a diverse community
  • Success in evaluating and improving the practices of the student enrollment experience, including timely, effective, and positive engagement with students and families throughout their experiences with admissions, financial aid, student accounts, and student academic records
  • Strong analytical skills, including the ability to digest and apply relevant research and data, leveraging analytics and technological tools
  • Sound judgment in making decisions and recommendations with the highest levels of integrity, fairness, and ethical standards
  • Familiarity with federal, state, and NCAA compliance
  • Demonstrated success in strengthening applicant pools and admitted student enrollment through proactive marketing and recruitment efforts
  • Superior communication and listening skills with the ability to make connections, earn trust, and foster collaboration to engage in collective action in a complex, decentralized environment
  • Eagerness to engage in meaningful discourse about enrollment priorities and trade-offs
  • A nuanced understanding of the importance and impact of financial aid policy to achieve institutional ambitions
  • A supervisory record that demonstrates strengths in recruiting top talent and mentoring and leading high performing teams
  • Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree preferred

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System and the University Physician’s Group are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.

Organization

In 1819, the University of Virginia established a new model for intellectual exchange and cross-disciplinary collaboration in higher education. Two hundred years later, as a major research institution, we continue to challenge conventions, lead with ingenuity and advance knowledge for the common good.

What began as an innovative idea has become one of the nation’s leading public research universities, with over 21,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UVA also has over 3,000 full-time faculty offering more than 400 degrees.

Each of the University’s eleven schools has its own distinctive mission, working together to garner consistently high rankings—including #2 Best Value Public College (Princeton Review, 2016), #3 Public University in the Nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2016), and #3 Best Value Among Public Colleges (Kiplinger’s, 2016).  

As we invest in and strengthen our research capabilities, UVA seeks new faculty ready to uncover new insights, rewrite old rules and collaborate on intellectual discoveries.

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS THAT CROSS DISCIPLINES

As an R1 institution, the University’s research centers, consortia and laboratories are on the leading edge of discovery and technology, offering collaborative spaces for students and faculty to solve global problems.

Our professors are recognized members of major national scholarly and professional organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty’s engagement in interdisciplinary research is being facilitated by new research institutes specializing in everything from big data to brain functioning, and by cluster hires across schools.

NATIONALLY RANKED HEALTH SYSTEM

UVA is also home to a nationally renowned academic medical center and the UVA Health System, which serves a three-part mission to treat patients, conduct translational research and train medical practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines.

Established as the nation’s 10th medical school in 1825, the institution has since grown to include a 612-bed hospital and a Level I trauma center, nationally recognized cancer and heart centers, a Children’s Hospital, and primary and specialty clinics throughout Central Virginia.

The UVA Medical Center is consistently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by the U.S. News & World Report magazine and has been named among the top 25 percent in seven specialties.

INSPIRING STUDENTS, INSPIRED TEACHING

The vast majority of UVA students come from the top 10% of their high school class, as well as from all 50 states, over 142 countries and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite their diversity, all UVA students share a love of learning and a drive to achieve.

One of the reasons students choose Virginia is our unique residential culture. At UVA, the community of students, faculty and staff personifies the Jeffersonian idea that living and learning are connected. The Academical Village was constructed to support a unique residential experience, with faculty living in the Pavilions, students occupying Lawn rooms and the world-famous Rotunda at its heart. The University’s residential culture continues to support this experience today—strengthened by students, faculty and staff rich in backgrounds, ideas and perspectives. Our unique culture is also paying dividends in innovation:  UVA’s faculty have generated more than 130 patents since 2010.

Perhaps most importantly, faculty come to UVA knowing that instruction is as important as research, and they pride themselves on their many teaching awards.  Our best professors look for ways to encourage, mentor and develop tomorrow’s leaders inside and outside the classroom.

LIFE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE

Living in Charlottesville you’ll find sophisticated restaurants, world-renowned wineries and breweries, cosmopolitan arts and music, friendly urban and suburban neighborhoods and a Piedmont landscape that has lured adventurous souls for centuries.  No wonder the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research named Charlottesville the “happiest city in America” in 2014.

In addition to UVA and its health system, several major employers have facilities in Charlottesville, including State Farm, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Department of Defense, GE and others.  Charlottesville is also becoming a center for innovative start-up businesses.  The University also actively helps spouses and partners of faculty members build their networks and pursue employment opportunities with a wide variety of area employers. 

The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, qualified individuals with disabilities are protected from discrimination and may be entitled to reasonable accommodations to assist in their pursuit of employment at the University. This includes assistance in completing the online job application as well as reasonable accommodations during the interview process. Please contact the UHR Service Center: 434.982.0123 orAskHR@virginia.edu to request assistance.

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