Senior Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Initiatives

NC State University; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

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Wellness Programs

Job summary

NC State University in Raleigh seeks a strategic leader to serve as Senior Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Initiatives. The role provides executive leadership across a diverse academic portfolio, shaping programs, partnerships, and pathways to student success while aligning resources with the university’s land‑grant mission.

You will collaborate with colleges, administrators, and faculty to identify opportunities for growth, evaluate program health with data, and advance innovative

Qualifications

• Minimum Education and Experience: A post baccalaureate degree and a minimum of ten years experience in higher education is required; and Preference will be given to candidates with a doctoral degree, or terminal degree in their field.
• Knowledge of academic governance, organizational structures, and decision-making processes within colleges, universities, or higher education systems.
• Experience in college, university, or system-level administration, with responsibility for advancing institutional priorities, programs, or initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze information, solve complex problems, attend to details, and manage competing priorities across concurrent initiatives.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects from planning through implementation.
• Ability to communicate clearly, build relationships, and cultivate collaborative partnerships across academic and administrative units and with a range of university constituents.

Responsibilities

• Provides executive leadership for the Office of Academic Programs and Initiatives ( OAPI ), and establishes a vision and priorities aligned with NC State’s institutional goals and land grant mission.
• Plays a central role in collaboratively shaping the future of NC State’s educational portfolio, identifying emerging opportunities and advancing new models.
• Advises the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost on trends, opportunities, and challenges affecting the university’s educational portfolio.
• Champions cross-university collaboration and initiatives that expand opportunities, strengthen learner pathways, and increase institutional impact.
• Provides strategic and fiscal oversight for OAPI’s portfolio and supervises senior leaders responsible for its constituent units and functional areas.
• Fosters collaboration and shared direction across constituent units and functional areas, strengthening connections across the broader educational enterprise.
• Evaluates opportunities for growth, innovation, collaboration, investment, and realignment across the OAPI portfolio.
• Cultivates a culture of excellence, accountability, professionalism, and continuous improvement.
• Works collaboratively with colleges, academic and administrative leaders, faculty, and university partners to strengthen and evolve NC State’s academic and educational portfolio.
• Identifies opportunities to develop new programs, pathways, credentials, partnerships, and educational models responsive to learner, workforce, and societal needs.
• Promotes alignment among academic programs and broader educational initiatives, advancing interdisciplinary programs, pathways, credentials, and other initiatives in collaboration with university and external partners to expand access, strengthen student success, and advance NC State’s land‑grant mission.
• Uses enrollment, financial, workforce, market, student success, and other institutional data to evaluate the health and competitiveness of NC State’s academic portfolio.
• Actively engages in assessing the effectiveness, sustainability, and strategic alignment of academic programs and educational initiatives.
• Identifies opportunities to optimize the academic portfolio in partnership with colleges and university leadership and develop executive-level recommendations for program investment, restructuring, expansion, discontinuation, and consolidation.
• Helps to position NC State as a national leader in innovative academic programming and land-grant education.
• Cultivates relationships with external partners, professional organizations, peer institutions, employers, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities for educational innovation and workforce engagement.
• Uses data, evidence, and stakeholder perspectives to assess portfolio effectiveness, inform priorities, and guide continuous improvement.

Job description

Senior Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Initiatives

About the Department

The Office of Academic Programs and Initiatives supports the university’s academic portfolio through strategic planning, resource alignment, collaboration, and the continuous evolution of academic programs and initiatives. The Office’s portfolio includes Academic Planning and Programs, Digital Education and Learning Technology Applications ( DELTA ), NC State Continuing and Lifelong Education (NCScale), the Institute for Advanced Analytics, Academy Initiatives, and non-degree credentials.

DELTA , with 112 employees, fosters the integration and support of digital learning in NC State’s academic programs and supports online and distance education programs at the university. Five functional units make up DELTA : Finance and Business, Online and Distance Education, Academic Technology, Digital Learning, and Marketing and Communications.

NC State Continuing and Lifelong Education (NCSCaLE), with 111 employees, positively impacts individuals, organizations and communities of North Carolina, the nation and world through the development and delivery of market-driven continuing and lifelong education programs and services. Its functional units include the McKimmon Conference and Training Center, the Office of Professional Development, Customized Training and Development, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, the Center for Urban Affairs and Community Services, the Collaborative and the Upper Coastal Plain Learning Council, along with several areas that support financial, marketing, print and building operations.

The Institute for Advanced Analytics, with 15 full-time employees, produces the world’s finest analytics and data science professionals. Its academic programs seek to fill the pressing need for professionals with strong quantitative skills coupled with an understanding of how analytics and AI can be applied with speed, accuracy and creativity to the critical challenges facing organizations.

Academy Initiatives include Climate and Sustainability, Genetics and Genomics, and Global One Health. These groups bring together faculty, staff and students to develop opportunities across disciplines around issues of common concern, collaboration with external actors, and the promotion of workforce preparedness. Non-degree credentials are a growing area of interest and work collaboratively with many academic units across campus.

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As a member of the Provost’s leadership team, the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Initiatives advises the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost on opportunities and challenges affecting the university’s academic portfolio and helps translate institutional priorities into sustainable opportunities and initiatives.

In this role, you will provide strategic leadership across a diverse portfolio of academic programs and initiatives—connecting people, priorities, and resources to strengthen the portfolio and identify opportunities for continued growth and evolution. Success in this role will come through building relationships across organizational boundaries and bringing together diverse perspectives and expertise to advance initiatives that support the university’s academic priorities. Working closely with central administrative partners, including University Data and Analytics, Enrollment Management, and Institutional Effectiveness, you will use program performance, enrollment trends, and institutional metrics to inform strategic decisions and identify opportunities across the academic portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership and Educational Direction:

• Provides executive leadership for the Office of Academic Programs and Initiatives ( OAPI ), and establishes a vision and priorities aligned with NC State’s institutional goals and land grant mission.
• Plays a central role in collaboratively shaping the future of NC State’s educational portfolio, identifying emerging opportunities and advancing new models.
• Advises the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost on trends, opportunities, and challenges affecting the university’s educational portfolio.
• Champions cross-university collaboration and initiatives that expand opportunities, strengthen learner pathways, and increase institutional impact.

Portfolio Leadership and Oversight:

• Provides strategic and fiscal oversight for OAPI’s portfolio and supervises senior leaders responsible for its constituent units and functional areas.
• Fosters collaboration and shared direction across constituent units and functional areas, strengthening connections across the broader educational enterprise.
• Evaluates opportunities for growth, innovation, collaboration, investment, and realignment across the OAPI portfolio.
• Cultivates a culture of excellence, accountability, professionalism, and continuous improvement.

Academic and Educational Advancement:

• Works collaboratively with colleges, academic and administrative leaders, faculty, and university partners to strengthen and evolve NC State’s academic and educational portfolio.
• Identifies opportunities to develop new programs, pathways, credentials, partnerships, and educational models responsive to learner, workforce, and societal needs.
• Promotes alignment among academic programs and broader educational initiatives, advancing interdisciplinary programs, pathways, credentials, and other initiatives in collaboration with university and external partners to expand access, strengthen student success, and advance NC State’s land‑grant mission.

Academic Portfolio Assessment and Decision Support:

• Uses enrollment, financial, workforce, market, student success, and other institutional data to evaluate the health and competitiveness of NC State’s academic portfolio.
• Actively engages in assessing the effectiveness, sustainability, and strategic alignment of academic programs and educational initiatives.
• Identifies opportunities to optimize the academic portfolio in partnership with colleges and university leadership and develop executive-level recommendations for program investment, restructuring, expansion, discontinuation, and consolidation.

External Engagement and Institutional Impact:

• Helps to position NC State as a national leader in innovative academic programming and land-grant education.
• Cultivates relationships with external partners, professional organizations, peer institutions, employers, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities for educational innovation and workforce engagement.
• Uses data, evidence, and stakeholder perspectives to assess portfolio effectiveness, inform priorities, and guide continuous improvement.

Other Responsibilities

If you enjoy bringing people together, building trust across organizational boundaries, listening to different perspectives, and communicating with clarity, this role offers the opportunity to shape the future of NC State’s academic portfolio, navigate complex opportunities across the university, and use data, relationships, and sound judgment to turn institutional priorities into sustainable initiatives.

Qualifications

Minimum Education and Experience

A post baccalaureate degree and a minimum of ten years experience in higher education is required; and Preference will be given to candidates with a doctoral degree, or terminal degree in their field.

Other Required Qualifications

• Knowledge of academic governance, organizational structures, and decision-making processes within colleges, universities, or higher education systems.
• Experience in college, university, or system‑level administration, with responsibility for advancing institutional priorities, programs, or initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze information, solve complex problems, attend to details, and manage competing priorities across concurrent initiatives.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing complex, multi‑stakeholder projects from planning through implementation.
• Ability to communicate clearly, build relationships, and cultivate collaborative partnerships across academic and administrative units and with a range of university constituents.

Preferred Qualifications

• Earned doctorate with appointment at Associate or Full Professor eligible for tenure in a related department.
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience at the college, university or system level in academic administration, planning or strategy

Required License(s) or Certification(s)

N/A

Valid NC Driver's License required

Valid NC Driver's License required No

Commercial Driver's License required

Commercial Driver's License required No

Position Number

00103296

Position Type

EPS/SAAO

Full Time Equivalent (FTE) (1.0 = 40 hours/week)

1.0

Appointment

12 Month Recurring

Mandatory Designation - Adverse Weather

Non Mandatory - Adverse Weather

Mandatory Designation - Emergency Events

Non Mandatory - Emergency Event

Department ID

023001 - Acad Strat, Innov & Solutions

EEO

NC State University is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal opportunities for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, and veteran status. The University encourages all qualified applicants, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, to apply. Individuals with disabilities requiring disability-related accommodations in the application and interview process are welcome to contact 919-513-0574 to speak with a representative of the Office of Equal Opportunity. Final candidates are subject to criminal & sex offender background checks. Some vacancies also require credit or motor vehicle checks. Degree(s) must be obtained prior to start date in order to meet qualifications and receive credit. NC State University participates in E-Verify. Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States.

Recruitment Dates and Special Instructions

Job Open Date 10/16/2026

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