VICE PROVOST FOR FACULTY AFFAIRS AND ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

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POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the University of California (UC) Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Vice Provost (VP) is a senior academic leader in the UC Office of the President who is responsible for all programs within Faculty Affairs and Academic Programs, an organization with more than 190 FTE and an annual budget of $70M and plays a leadership role in overseeing Academic Personnel policies.

The Vice Provost works in partnership with the Deputy Provost of Systemwide Academic Personnel to ensure appropriate policies and guidelines are in place across the system for UC's 75,000+ academic appointees, which include ladder-rank and equivalent faculty, postdoctoral scholars, lecturers, academic researchers, librarians, faculty administrators, and other academic appointees, including graduate student teaching assistants and researchers. These policies range from tenure and promotion to academic freedom and beyond.

The Vice Provost is a key member of the UC System Provost and Executive Vice President's cabinet and works especially closely with the systemwide Academic Senate. The VP therefore needs to be keenly aware of faculty perspectives, fostering dialogue and policy development that expresses the most robust form of shared governance. The VP carefully reviews and provides advice to the UC Provost and Executive Vice President on personnel policies and procedures, compensation programs and studies, and other areas that impact faculty. In addition, the VP serves as a spokesperson to the Regents, the Legislature, and external organizations as needed.

The VP jointly convenes, with the Deputy Provost of Systemwide Academic Personnel, the Vice Provosts/Vice Chancellors of Academic Personnel from all campuses, working with them to support and enhance UC's unique approach to academic review, compensation, and advancement. The VP also co-leads systemwide Academic Senate-Administration workgroups and task forces related to faculty affairs and is integrally involved in the administration of faculty discipline cases.

The Vice Provost's responsibilities include oversight of several systemwide academic programs. The VP advocates within the Office of the President for the resources needed for the programs to thrive and reviews the performance of the program leaders, including the California Digital Library (CDL), the UC Press, the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP), the UC Washington Center (UCDC), the UC Center in Sacramento, UCTV, the Education Abroad Program (EAP), and the Advancing Faculty Diversity (AFD) program. As part of the VP's responsibilities to the systemwide academic programs within the department, the VP serves on standing governing boards, councils, and committees for each of the programs. The VP also chairs ad-hoc working groups charged by the Provost that address signature issues for academic programs that require system wide expertise and senior leadership buy-in.

The position is a 100% appointment, full-time, fiscal year faculty administrator. The appointment is for a five-year renewable term. The appointee will retain a 0% faculty position on one of the UC campuses. If the candidate is not a current University of California full professor, they will be recommended for appointment as a faculty member at 0% time at a University of California campus, in accordance with the normal academic process.

This is a hybrid position reporting at least (3) days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) onsite in Oakland, CA. The candidate must also be available to travel periodically to UC campuses; to program locations, including Washington, DC.; and to various meeting locations throughout California.

Professional Qualifications and Experience

Candidates are invited to contact Elizabeth Watkins at Elizabeth.Watkins@ucr.edu, UCR Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor & Search Committee Chair, to discuss this leadership opportunity. For consideration, all candidates must submit the following by November 1, 2024

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:

• Full professor, or academic credentials and scholarly distinction that would qualify the candidate to be appointable as a full professor who is a member of the UC Academic Senate.
• Leadership experience in academic administration that may have been acquired in any of these roles: Vice Provost, Vice Chancellor, Dean, Chair, Associate Vice Provost, Associate Vice Chancellor, Associate Dean, Vice Chair; Academic Senate Chair, Vice Chair, or committee chair; PI on a multi-unit or multi-campus project; or other similar roles.
• Track record of innovation in implementing solutions to complex problems.
• Experience with academic personnel issues, including faculty recruitment, retention, advancement, diversity, compensation, data analysis, faculty code of conduct, academic freedom, and conflict of commitment.
• Demonstrated experience and success with issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, including a commitment to promoting diversity and maintaining a workplace that is collaborative, supportive, respectful of differences, and committed to fairness and diversity in all interactions, both within and outside the team.
• Ability to lead and delegate in an environment with multiple, often-competing priorities.
• Superior oral and written communications skills, including experience with public speaking before a broad range of audiences to communicate and inform both internal and external audiences of key issues affecting the University.
• Commitment to furthering the University's public interest, academic, and research missions.

Preferred qualities include the following:

• Ability to manage a systemwide administrative office, including supervising staff at various levels with varying degrees of responsibility; managing budgets; building and fostering partnerships within Academic Affairs, across UCOP and the UC campuses; working with teams both small and large; and balancing campus autonomy and needs with systemwide priorities.
• Experience with union-represented academic populations.

Required application materials:

For consideration, you must create a profile in this system and submit the following by November 1, 2024 to Marjo Keller at marjo.keller@ucop.edu with the subject line: (Applicant Name) 73101 Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Academic Programs.

• Letter of interest
• CV
• Statement of contributions to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (see below)
• Names of three references (references will not be contacted without notice to the candidate)

*If you have any trouble submitting your application, please email Marjo Keller at marjo.keller@ucop.edu.

Salary and Benefits:

A reasonable estimate for this position is $350,000 to $380,000.

For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University visit: Benefits of Belonging.

The University of California, Office of the President, is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be offered a salary at or near the top of the range for a position. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience. The full salary range shows the growth potential for this position and the pay scale is the budgeted salary or hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position.

Application Review Date:

The first review date for this job is November 1, 2024. The position will be open until filled.

Start Date:

It is anticipated that the successful candidate will start the position on April 1, 2025.

Conditions of Employment:

• Background Check Process: Successful completion of a background check is required for this critical position. Background check process at UCOP
• Smoke Free Work Environment: The University of California, Office of the President, is smoke & tobacco-free as of January 1, 2014. UC Smoke & Tobacco Free Policy
• As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to comply with the University of California Policy on Vaccination Programs, as may be amended or revised from time to time. Federal, state, or local public health directives may impose additional requirements.

EEO Statement

The University of California, Office of the President, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California's Affirmative Action Policy please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010393/PPSM-20. For the University of California's Anti-Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination.

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Statement of Contributions to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We recognize that excellence is inextricably linked to the diversity of our faculty, staff, and student body. We define diversity very broadly and take seriously Regents Policy 4400 which states:

"The diversity of the people of California has been the source of innovative ideas and creative accomplishments throughout the state's history into the present. Diversity - a defining feature of California's past, present, and future - refers to the variety of personal experiences, values, and worldviews that arise from differences of culture and circumstance. Such differences include race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, language, abilities/disabilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and geographic region, and more."

In a statement, we ask applicants to describe their understanding of the barriers that exist for historically underrepresented groups in higher education. We ask that applicants discuss their past and/or potential future contributions to promoting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, which is a key requirement of the role of every leader at the University of California.

There are numerous ways to contribute and a commitment to this part of our mission can be reflected through leadership, research, teaching, supervision, mentoring, community engagement, service, and any of the other varied activities that are a part of one's career. Please be specific about the context; your role, scope, or level of effort; and the impact. In describing your future plans, please discuss activities you plan to pursue and how they fit into your vision for faculty affairs and academic programs at the Office of the President and for the University of California.

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About the UC Office of the President

The Office of the President is the system-wide headquarters of the University of California, coordinating activities that allow a complex and unique system to operate efficiently as one university, furthering its academic, research and public interest missions. The Office of the President supports UC's academic and research missions and manages its fiscal and business operations across its campuses, labs, and medical centers. It supports campuses and students through system-wide funding and programs; manages the University's multi-billion-dollar operations and investments; oversees medical centers and national labs; provides centralized labor relations and legal services; and promotes the well-being of its diverse and large workforce through benefits and retirement programs. It oversees and manages programs that serve the entire university system, allowing campuses to capture the savings and efficiencies that come from centralized operations. Learn more about the UC Office of the President.

About Academic Affairs at UCOP

Within the Office of the President, the Division of Academic Affairs provides leadership and services that animate and enable the UC system to realize its true strength and potential in its contributions to the well-being of California, the nation and the world. Across five subdivisions, Academic Affairs provides critical systemwide services and stewardship to the University's ten campuses, national labs, health centers, cooperative extension programs and systemwide initiatives, in a collective effort to expand equity, promote innovation, support excellence in research, and advance social mobility through education and service to California and the world through the development of talent and respect for the intrinsic value of knowledge.

The five divisions are:

• Faculty Affairs and Academic Programs
• Systemwide Academic Personnel
• Graduate, Undergraduate, and Equity Affairs
• Research and Innovation
• Institutional Research and Academic Planning

The Division of Academic Affairs has over 440 FTE and an annual budget of $278M. More specifically, the work of the Academic Affairs Division includes: stewardship of the Academic Personnel Manual (APM) and serving as the center of expertise for academic recruitment, retention, advancement, compensation, diversity, affirmative action, and labor relations; leading and supporting systemwide efforts that advance UC equity and inclusion, promote access to and successful completion of baccalaureate and graduate degrees, and help to provide an exemplary student academic experience; building UC-wide partnerships, shaping effective policies, and providing a strong voice nationally for research and innovation on behalf of UC; and providing timely, accurate, consistent, and reliable information about UC and the environment in which it operates, to illustrate UC's progress, challenges and outcomes in advancing its mission.

As an organization, Academic Affairs seeks to create, reflect and maintain a diverse, productive, equitable and inclusive community committed to the University of California's academic mission and to its core values: integrity in its work, respect for one another, accountability for its public resources, and excellence in its service to the University and to the State.

About the Department of Faculty Affairs and Academic Programs

Faculty Affairs and Academic Programs (FAAP) supports the academic careers of UC's 75,000+ faculty and academic appointees by reviewing and consulting on all personnel policies and procedures impacting UC faculty across the system. Partnering with faculty, the Academic Senate, and academic administrators, FAAP leads development of new academic initiatives/ programs and designs and facilitates multi-campus collaborations.

The Vice Provost has oversight responsibility for several systemwide academic programs:

• UC Center Sacramento
• UC Washington Center
• UC Education Abroad
• California Digital Library
• UC Press
• President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
• UCTV

While most of these programs have their own leader, the VP acts as an advocate for the programs to ensure they continue to make valuable contributions to the research and teaching missions of the University. As part of the oversight of academic programs, the VP participates in the recruitment of new program leaders and reviews their performance on a regular basis. As part of the VP's responsibilities to the systemwide academic programs within the department, the VP serves as a member of the governing boards, councils, and committees for each of the programs. The VP also plays a critical role in representing the provost on a wide range of standing committees and councils that promote the mission and advance the strategic priorities of the university. In addition, the VP serves as a spokesperson to the Regents, the Legislature, and external organizations as needed.