Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities and Campus Services

UAA seeks an engaging and strategic-minded person to serve as our next Associate Vice Chancellor (AVC) for Facilities and Campus Services. The AVC serves as UAA’s chief facilities administrator, overseeing capital planning and construction, maintenance and operations activities, oversight of campus energy consumption and purchased utilities, and overall safe access to our campuses. This position has full benefits, including health insurance, retirement, and tuition benefits for you and your family. Come join our team of professionals as we advance UAA’s mission of transforming lives!

The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is seeking applications for its next Associate Vice Chancellor (AVC) for Facilities and Campus Services. UAA is a dual-mission, comprehensive university with the mission to transforming lives through teaching, research, community engagement and creative expression in a diverse and inclusive environment. As Alaska’s largest university, UAA prides itself on excellence, student success, open access, and community engagement.

The Associate Vice Chancellor is UAA’s lead on all building and property matters. This position directly oversees UAA’s capital planning and construction activities, maintenance and operations of the Anchorage Campus (and coordination with the delegated maintenance teams at UAA’s four community campuses). The AVC maintains critical relationships with partner entities and local governments. The AVC reports directly to the Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services and actively supports UA System efforts, such as the System Facilities Council, preparation of approvals to the Board of Regents, and responses to Legislative inquiries regarding capital requests.

UAA seeks an engaging and strategic-minded person to serve as our next Associate Vice Chancellor (AVC) for Facilities and Campus Services. In this dynamic, fast-paced role, the AVC serves as a strategic and policy resource for all UAA campuses, colleges, and the University of Alaska System partners. UAA has several campuses throughout Southcentral Alaska with a combined size of over 3.3 million gross square feet (2.8 million in Anchorage). UAA’s campuses are located on the ancestral lands of the Dena’ina, Ahtna Dene, Alutiiq/Sugpiaq, and dAXunhyuu peoples.

The AVC is responsible for the strategic and tactical planning for UAA’s capital assets, including the development of UAA’s annual capital budget and multi-year capital improvement plan and implementation of the Campus Master Plan across all sites. The AVC maintains strong relationships with college deans, campus directors, UA System peers, and external partners, ensuring UAA’s facilities meet the needs of our academic operations. In addition to capital planning and project execution, the AVC ensures the effective operations of maintenance and campus operational activities, including UAA’s robust preventative maintenance program, ensuring safe public access, utilities and energy management, custodial and recycling activities, and campus mail service.

The AVC is supported by the directors of four departments within Facilities and Campus Services. These include: Planning and Construction, Maintenance and Operations, Facilities Business Operations, and General Support Services with a combined staff of approximately 100 (over half of which are represented crafts and trades). The AVC works closely with the directors of UAA’s community campuses and the University Housing auxiliary who have delegated authority for daily maintenance and operations of their respective sites.

This is a Senior Administrative position with full benefits, including health insurance, retirement, and tuition benefits for you and your family. Come join our team of professionals as we advance UAA’s mission of transforming lives!

The ideal candidate for this role should possess a master’s degree or professional registration in a relevant field, 8-10 years of progressively responsible experience, with 5 years in a management role. Strong preference for individuals with prior experience at a dual-mission, public university; industry peer organization involvement; State of Alaska procurement statutes; and, working in an environment with a strong emphasis on shared governance.

The UAA community has identified four core competencies at the heart of quality at our university. These qualities are core to everything we do:
- Effective Communication: The knowledge and skills necessary to engage in effective communication in diverse contexts and formats.
- Creative and Critical Thinking: The knowledge and skills necessary for the critical exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events in order to creatively design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to answer complex questions or achieve a desired goal.
- Intercultural Fluency: The knowledge and skills necessary to promote effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts, particularly in terms of the diverse populations of Alaska.
- Personal, Professional, and Community Responsibility: The knowledge and skills necessary to promote personal flourishing, professional excellence, and community engagement.

Additional skills and abilities specific to the AVC for Facilities and Campus Services include:
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience in Facilities' Industries Best Practices and how facilities requirements are influenced by the strategic and academic plans.
- Strong ability to work and communicate with a diverse range of audiences, from tradespeople at the line-level to the members of the Board of Regents and state legislators.
- Ability to align staff to department and university strategic plans, including setting goals and motivating staff to achieve them.
- Knowledge of trades collective bargaining agreements and related operational limitations.
- Experience with university accreditation processes.
- Experience with writing and administering grants.
- Ability to recognize sub-optimization in regular operations and develop and execute sound plans to remedy the problems affecting unit and individual performance.
- Ability to recognize damaged relationships between the service unit and key consumers and create and execute plans to repair relationships and create durable, effective communication conduits.
- Skills in the application of employee and contractor accountability to assure effective use of resources.
- Skills in project management for both large and small construction and maintenance projects.

Minimum Qualifications:

A Master's Degree or Professional Registration in a relevant field and 5-6 or more years of work experience in progressively responsible positions. Training and experience in leadership, strategic planning and change management. Higher Education Industry training, familiarity or and participation organizations such as APPA, SCUP or WACUBO, or other similar organizations.

Position Details:

This is a full-time, exempt staff position complete with both a competitive salary and full employee benefits package. UA provides a generous compensation package that includes retirement options, annual leave, 12 paid holidays per year, tuition waivers for employees and family members, and affordable medical, dental and vision care coverage. 

Applications will be accepted for review on February 24, 2025. To ensure consideration, please apply by 11:55 PM, Alaska Standard Time on February 23, 2025.

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☎️If you have any questions regarding this position, please contact  uaa_ayadmin@alaska.edu.

This position is designated as an officer of the university or senior administrator at the discretion of the president.

*To be eligible for this position, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.  Applicants who now or may in the future require visa sponsorship to work in the United States are not eligible.

The University of Alaska (UA) is responsible for providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the applicant screening process. If you need assistance in completing this application or during any phase of the interview process, please contact UA Human Resources by phone at 907-450-8200.

The University of Alaska (www.alaska.edu) is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Employer and Educational Institution.  The University is committed to a policy of non-discrimination (www.alaska.edu/nondiscrimination) against individuals on the basis of any legally protected status.

The successful applicant is required to complete a background check. Any offer of employment is contingent on the background check.

Your application for employment with the University of Alaska is subject to public disclosure under the Alaska Public Records Act.

All employees at the University of Alaska are expected to uphold the highest standards of ethics and professionalism when conducting or engaged in university business.

*Each university within the University of Alaska system publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report which contains information regarding campus safety and security including topics such as: campus law enforcement authority; crime reporting policies; campus alerts (Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications); fire safety policies and procedures; programs to prevent dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking; the procedures the University will follow when one of these crimes is reported; and other matters of importance related to security on campus. The report also contains information about crime statistics for the three most recent calendar years concerning reported crimes that occurred on campus; in On-Campus Student Housing Facilities; in Noncampus buildings or property owned or controlled by the University or a recognized student organization; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus.  The report also contains fire statistics for any fires occurring in an On-Campus Student Housing Facility during the three most recent calendar years.  

Access to the reports is available at:

UAA: (Addresses Anchorage campus, Aviation Technology Complex, JBER - Elmendorf Extension, JBER - Richardson Extension, Kenai Peninsula College - Kachemak Bay campus, Kenai Peninsula College - Kenai River campus, Kodiak College, Kodiak High School Extension, Matanuska-Susitna College, Prince William Sound College, and Prince William Sound College - Cordova Extension) Online: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/students/safety. Request a paper copy in person: UAA Police Department Office at Room 114 of Eugene Short Hall on the Anchorage campus / UAA Dean of Students Office at Room 122 of Rasmuson Hall on the Anchorage campus. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-786-1120 or police@uaa.alaska.edu / 907-786-1214 or uaa_deanofstudents@alaska.edu. 

UAF: (Addresses Fairbanks Campus, Bristol Bay Campus, Chukchi Campus, Community and Technical College, Kasitsna Bay Campus, Seward Marine Center, Tok Campus, Kuskokwim Campus, and Northwest Campus) Online: https://www.uaf.edu/orca/files/ASFSR.pdf. Request a paper copy in person: UAF Office of Rights, Compliance and Accountability on the 3rd Floor of Constitution Hall. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-474-7300 or uaf-orca@alaska.edu.

UAS: (Addresses the Juneau Auke Bay Campus, Juneau Technical Education Center, Sitka Campus, & Ketchikan Campus) Online: https://uas.alaska.edu/equity-and-compliance/docs/clery/UAS_ASFSR.pdf. Request a paper copy in person: Hendrickson Building, Suite 202 on the Juneau campus. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-796-6371 or emailing uas.clery@alaska.edu.