Executive Searches
The University of Massachusetts Amherst often looks for talented, innovative leaders to join its ranks. Executive opportunities in active recruitment are posted here.
Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
UMass Amherst seeks an exceptional academic leader and administrator to serve as its next provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs.
In close partnership with newly appointed Chancellor Javier A. Reyes, the next provost will have an exciting opportunity to build upon the university's remarkable trajectory to distinguish itself as one of the world's pre-eminent public universities. The provost will inform and help implement a new strategic plan, uniting the UMass Amherst community around a shared vision for the university's future.
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Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Campus Life
Reporting to the chancellor, the vice chancellor for student affairs and campus life (VCSACL) is the senior student affairs officer at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst, leading a nationally recognized team of student affairs professionals in creating a supportive living and learning environment of responsive care and support for retention, graduation, and success beyond the university experience. The vice chancellor is a member of the chancellor’s cabinet and provides strategic leadership, vision, and management in overseeing a comprehensive portfolio of programs, services, and strategic initiatives that promote intellectual, physical, and emotional well-being, helping UMass Amherst students transform their potential to match their highest aspirations. Fully committed to excellence, innovation, and social justice and in partnership with campus colleagues, the vice chancellor will spearhead a division that contributes to students’ successful educational experiences, promotes their development, physical and mental health, wellbeing, and safety, supports an actively engaged and diverse student body, and challenges students to become leaders in their community and the world.
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Vice Chancellor and Chief Human Resources Officer
Reporting to the chancellor, the vice chancellor and chief human resources officer (VC/CHRO) will support the mission of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) flagship campus by providing effective human resources programs and services. The VC/CHRO provides oversight and strategic leadership in the areas of talent acquisition and recruitment (selection and retention), compensation, human resources business partnerships, employee engagement initiatives, education and staff training/development, employee and labor relations, and other centralized day-to-day human resources operations so that centralized human resources services are fully engaged and consistent. In addition, the VC/CHRO will provide leadership and guidance to the institution’s 11 collective bargaining units representing over 90 percent of University employees. This position works across and with all of the campus’ decentralized human resources offices to transform the human resources function into an effective, strategic resource on campus with a true client service delivery model.
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