Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Success - 2952

About the role

The Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Success serves as the senior academic affairs leader responsible for institutional student success strategy, assessment, academic support services, and coordinated student success initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for campus-wide student success programs and initiatives that promote persistence, achievement, retention, and degree completion.
• Lead institutional efforts related to the collection, tracking, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of student success data and metrics.
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators related to retention, progression, academic standing, graduation, equity gaps, and student engagement.
• Utilize institutional and unit-level data to inform strategic planning, resource allocation, policy recommendations, accreditation support, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and analyses related to student success outcomes for university leadership, divisional leadership, faculty, governing boards, and external stakeholders.
• Pursue, secure, and oversee external funding opportunities, including federal, state, and private grants, to support student success initiatives, academic support programs, advising innovation, retention strategies, and services for diverse student populations.
• Oversee comprehensive academic advising services for first- and second-year students, transfer students, readmitted students, and academically at-risk students.
• Provide leadership for tutoring services, Supplemental Instruction, peer academic support initiatives, and academic engagement programming.
• Oversee federally funded TRIO programs, including STEM-focused initiatives, ensuring successful implementation of grant objectives and student outcomes.
• Lead the development and implementation of integrated support strategies for undergraduate and graduate students, traditional and non-traditional students, and full-time and part-time learners.
• Promote holistic and inclusive student support practices designed to improve academic achievement, persistence, engagement, and degree completion.
• Collaborate with faculty and academic departments to strengthen student learning support initiatives and transition programs.
• Work collaboratively with Deans, department chairs, faculty, staff, and university leadership to advance institutional student success goals.
• Participate in university committees, strategic planning initiatives, accreditation activities, and divisional projects related to student success and academic affairs.
• Represent the Division of Academic Affairs and the Center for Student Success in campus, community, state, and professional organizations and initiatives.
• Support institutional efforts related to student success policy development, enrollment management, and academic planning.

  Requirements

  • Candidates must possess a master's degree, PhD or EdD from an accredited institution.
  • Candidates must have at least seven years of higher education administrative leadership experience including at least five years of leadership experience working within a student success unit or role.
  • Candidates must have experience with budgeting, personnel management, operational oversight and program assessment.

  Qualifications

  • Demonstrated success leading comprehensive student success initiatives in higher education.
  • Experience with predictive analytics, early alert systems, CRM/advising technologies or student success platforms.
  • Experience leading or managing federally funded TRIO or grant-funded student support programs.
  • Experience securing external funding, grants or partnerships to support student success initiatives.
  • Experience supervising directors or multiple functional areas within a student success organization.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through collaboration, assessment, strategic planning and data-informed decision making.
  • Experience working with student populations, including transfer students, adult learners, part-time students, graduate students, first-generation students and academically at-risk students.

  Skills

  • Data analysis and interpretation.
  • Strategic planning and implementation.
  • Collaborative problem-solving.
  • Leadership and mentorship.
  • Grant writing and securing external funding.
  • Student support and advising.
  • Academic administration and management.

  Benefits

  N/A

  Pay

  Commensurate with Education and Experience

  Schedule

  Primary