Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Management

About the role

The Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Management is the University’s senior facilities executive, responsible for strategic leadership, stewardship, and operational excellence of the campus physical environment. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chancellor for Enterprise Operations, the AVC for Facilities Management provides vision, direction, and oversight for planning, design, construction, maintenance, energy management, sustainability, custodial, and landscaping services that support the University’s academic, research, and student-life mission.

The AVC for Facilities Management advances a student-ready and research-supportive campus, ensuring facilities and infrastructure promote an accessible, sustainable, safe, and inclusive learning and working environment in alignment with University strategic goals and UNC System policies.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership and Oversight: Provide strategic leadership and oversight for planning, design, construction, maintenance, energy management, sustainability, custodial, and landscaping services that support the University’s academic, research, and student-life mission.
• Facilities Management: Ensure facilities and infrastructure promote an accessible, sustainable, safe, and inclusive learning and working environment.
• Capital Projects: Manage large-scale construction and renovation projects, oversee architects, engineers, consultants, and contractors, and deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Sustainability: Lead the integration of sustainable principles—economic, environmental, and social—into planning, construction, and daily operations, advancing the institution’s climate action and carbon-reduction goals.
• Team Building: Build and sustain high-performing, service-oriented teams, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement while advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Requirements

• Minimum Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree; 12+ years of progressively responsible leadership experience in facilities management in a large, complex organization, with demonstrated responsibility for campus operations, capital planning, capital project delivery, regulatory compliance, and oversight of diverse facilities management functions.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Advanced knowledge and proven experience leading a comprehensive facilities organization within a large, complex institution—covering planning, capital project delivery, space management, operations and maintenance, energy management, environmental health and safety, and campus sustainability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related field.
• Relevant licensure (e.g., PE or RA) and executive-level experience in strategic facilities planning and large-scale capital project oversight.
• Experience with UNC System policies, State Construction Office processes, North Carolina public contracting, or state bidding requirements.
• Experience with capital project delivery methods, including Design Build and Construction Manager at Risk.
• Experience leading facilities operations or capital projects in a large, complex organization.
• Experience in public higher education or other public sector environments.
• Completion of the State Construction Office Capital Project Coordinator course.