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President University Leadership

About the Department

Founded in 1890 by John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago is one of the world\'s leading universities and widely known for its research eminence, its excellent faculty, graduate programs that rank at or near the top of their respective fields, a consistently strong and increasingly diverse student body, and impressive, constantly improved fundraising and endowment growth. The University is located primarily in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. It comprises an undergraduate college, graduate programs and interdisciplinary committees organized into four divisions (Physical, Biological and Social Sciences, and Humanities), six professional schools (Business, Divinity, Law, Medicine, Public Policy, and Social Work Policy and Practice, Molecular Engineering), the nursery-12 Laboratory Schools, three campuses of the University of Chicago charter school, a school of continuing education, a medical center, and a marine laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. A faculty numbering 2,000 teaches nearly 7,000 undergraduates and 10,900 graduate and professional school students. Another 3,700 students are enrolled in the N-12 and charter school programs. University of Chicago Medicine is a comprehensive academic medical center with 1,300 beds, 145,000 annual emergency room visits, 45,000 admissions, and more than 1,200 physicians who cover a full array of medical and surgical specialties. The University is also home to an award-winning professional theater and a campus art museum. With facilities in downtown Chicago, Bangladesh, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Luxor, New Delhi, Paris, and Singapore, and academic partnerships in all corners of the globe, the University of Chicago is an institution of considerable reach. The University is governed by a 55-member Board of Trustees and led by President Paul Alivisatos, who became the 14th President of the University in September 2021. The senior leadership team including Provost Katherine Baicker is 13 officers and 12 deans. From its distinctive beginning as one of few research universities in America, to its history of defining disciplines (economics and sociology among them), to its record of Nobel Prize winning work and its current and longstanding culture of intense rigorous analysis and debate, the University of Chicago is among the most distinguished, distinctive, and reputable institutions in the nation and the world. For more information: https://www.uchicago.edu/.

Job Information

Job Summary:

Reporting directly to the President and serving as a strategic partner to and member of the President\'s executive team, the Vice President for Operations (VPO) assists in supporting the highest ambitions of the University\'s teaching and learning, research, and engagement goals with the mandate to oversee enabling infrastructure of the University including the built environment, technology, and human resources organizations.

Working closely with the Chief Financial Officer, Provost, Deans, and other senior administrators, the VPO develops and supports a variety of strategic and operational initiatives in the built environment, aligning Facilities Services, ITS and Human Resources with the mission of the University in support of faculty, students, and staff. Prioritizing an exceptional level of service and delivery, the VPO delivers robust business practices that steward the University\'s infrastructure resources efficiently and contributes to the long-range planning and culture of the University. Some units on campus have distinct space, IT, and HR functions (for example UChicago Medicine) with teams that do not report to the VPO. A successful leader will effectively navigate both direct re orting relationships as well as through collaboration and influencing within the University\'s decentralized structure, all with the goal of the overall community having the most effective and efficient service possible. The VPO works closely with members of the Board of Trustees who have oversight of relevant committees within the VPO\'s purview. The VPO directly supervises the Associate Vice President (AVP) for Facilities Services, the AVP and Chief Human Resources Officer, and the AVP and Chief Information Officer.

Built Environment: The University of Chicago\'s 217-acre campus comprises 170 buildings with 18 million gross square feet of space across a range of styles and uses including historic neo-Gothic buildings, academic spaces, highly-technical research facilities, and residence halls in addition to other domestic and international sites.

The VPO\'s built environment responsibilities include oversight of the facilities departments that manage capital planning (new and maintenance), campus architecture, campus master planning, design and delivery of new buildings, and the overall quality of the campus built environment. Additional responsibilities include direct management of the central administration building Levi Hall, oversight of auxiliary entities including the David Rubenstein Forum and the Quad Club, and integration with academic space planning.

Approximately 300 employees in Facilities