AVP, Facilities Operations

About the role

UW Facilities has an outstanding opportunity for an Associate Vice President of Operations to join their team, reporting to the Vice President of UW Facilities. The Associate Vice President of Operations provides operational and strategic oversight of UW’s Seattle campus infrastructure, landscape, and built environment.

The position is accountable for providing overall facilities and infrastructure resource stewardship, as well as oversight of transportation services and in-house construction projects under $110k in value. This role has responsibility for an annual operating budget of $110 million.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership by aligning Operations’ performance and values with the University’s commitment to teaching, research, clinical care, and service.
• Responsible for an annual operations budget.
• Oversee Transportation Services that provides parking and commuter options for over 100,000 faculty, staff, students, and visitors arriving to campus each day.
• Oversee the execution and cost management of construction and renovation projects executed by in-house trades staff, with emphasis on minimizing the overall life-cycle cost of facilities.
• Oversee the execution of maintenance activities, capital improvements, and facilities-related sustainability projects across the Seattle campus, using a portfolio management methodology to optimally steward the campus facilities and infrastructure.
• Promote a high-performing and service-oriented culture, with an environment characterized by respect, professionalism, ownership and accountability, diversity, equity and inclusion, pride and recognition, and collaboration with the unions.
• Serve as a member of the UW Facilities Executive Team and collaborate with high-level University leadership.
• Present to the Board of Regents, as needed, and interpret government policies and regulations to ensure compliance and reduction of risk for the institution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in managing operations and capital improvements of complex institutional facilities and infrastructure, with increasing leadership responsibilities over time.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with departmental staff as well as campus and university-wide staff and administrators.
• Knowledge of facility operations issues, as well as engineering and architectural systems and institutional standards, preferably in a university, hospital, or research laboratory environment.
• Strong people skills: tactful, courteous, respectful, inclusive, and inspirational when engaging with peers, senior leaders, direct reports, and all UW staff and other stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration skills to build enduring partnerships with UW staff, faculty, and students and representatives and teams from other stakeholder organizations.
• Experience in and a commitment to sustainability.
• Demonstrated leadership skills in championing inclusivity and leverage team-building skills, while emphasizing individual ownership, responsibility, and accountability.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering, business, or a related advanced degree (preferred).
• Three or more years’ experience in management within a large higher education and research institution (preferred).
• Experience with managing a unionized workforce (preferred).
• Experience with financial planning, construction management, and sustainability (preferred).
• Familiar with principles of strategic management (preferred).

Skills

• Ability to embrace and lead value-added organizational change.
• Ability to successfully manage stressful situations and changing priorities.
• Ability to function in an ambiguous work environment.

Benefits

For information about benefits for this position, visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-uw-staff/

Pay

Pay Range: $305,004.00 annual - $347,004.00 annual

Schedule

First Shift (United States of America), regular position, 100.00% FTE