Associate Vice President of Strategic Infrastructure Planning & Facilities

Position Summary

The Associate Vice President for Strategic Infrastructure Planning & Facilities will provide leadership and strategic vision to approximately 1,150 support and professional staff (which includes temporaries, on-calls and students). This position is responsible for safely and efficiently delivering over $164 million in facility services to the campus community annually. This position is responsible for shaping the unit to reinforce collaboration, accountability, and responsibility.

This position provides leadership for the integrated planning, operation and maintenance of the campus infrastructure. This position also promotes an environment that recognizes and supports diversity, creates a climate that values and recognizes initiative, innovation, service excellence, continual learning, stewardship, and the achievement of results.

• 10+ years of progressively challenging professional experience, in a functional leadership role managing a team of diverse professionals with varied backgrounds and capabilities all working toward measurable bottom-line results and successes
• Experience with large complex budgets from multiple funding sources, professional facilities management on a large campus with multiple customers, city scale utility systems including distribution and generation, large capital construction at multiple sites, real estate acquisitions, sales, and leases utilizing multiple financing tools including P3’s
• Proven track record of excellent project management and strategic planning skills and effectively managing multiple projects with various deadlines and budgets
• Experience with positively and productively leading change with previous organizations/facilities
• Exceptional time management skills with proven ability to meet deadlines
• Outstanding communicator, both written and verbal; especially as it relates to communicating efficiently and effectively with customers, stakeholders and staff
• Established network connections within field of expertise
• Creative thinker who can also attentively and actively listen and skillfully communicate, knowledgably, with the appropriate level of business acumen to all levels within the university to faculty, administration, and staff
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills while promoting teamwork
• Exercises good judgment, with integrity, and observes ethical standards ensuring University policies and procedures are being upheld
• Executes professional responsibilities with due care, competence, and diligence in accordance with the standards established for the profession
• Understanding of regulatory rules for power generation, water supply, and environmental compliance
• Experience in a large, complex organization or facilities is required
• Experience in contract interpretation, negotiation, grievance process and managing a unionized work force

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, business, or equivalent; 10+ years of progressively challenging professional experience in a functional leadership role, managing a team of diverse professionals with varied backgrounds and capabilities all working toward measurable bottom-line results and successes.
• Experience implementing strategic frameworks, mission, vision, values, and action plans.
• Experience in a large, complex organization or facilities is required.
• Experience leading within a complex, interdisciplinary, union environment that deploys business intelligence tools for reporting, queries, and analysis.