Associate Vice President Finance

Strategic Leadership and Operations Manager

Provides strategic leadership, financial management, and operational oversight for a variety of administrative/auxiliary enterprises and quasi-business service units. This role is responsible for ensuring reporting units are appropriately sized, of high-quality, are efficient, and always provide appropriate and necessary services that enhance the campus experience for students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Leads a diverse portfolio of services, manages external vendor contracts, and aligns various operations with the College's strategic goals and objectives.

• Strategic Leadership, Planning, and Development:
  Plan, develop, and implement long-range strategic and operational plans for administrative/business/auxiliary units to improve services, increase efficiency, and appropriately size operations
• Operations Management:
  Direct day-to-day operations of administrative, business, and auxiliary units, including assigned operational and service functions
• Fiscal Responsibility:
  Develop and manage operating budgets, monitor financial performance (revenue vs. expenditure), approve expenditures, and ensure self-sustainability of administrative/business/auxiliary enterprises as appropriate
• Contract Administration & Vendor Relations:
  Oversee contracts and vendor relationships for assigned operations, negotiate service agreements with third-party vendors, and monitor vendor performance to ensure compliance with College policies, procedures, and quality standards.
• Staff Leadership:
  Supervise, train, mentor, and evaluate unit managers and support staff, fostering and developing a culture of high-standard customer service
• Compliance &
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Ensure all operations comply with federal, state, and College regulations, including health and safety; including ERM Compliance Matrix and financial audits
• Campus Liaison:
  Collaborate with College leadership and stakeholders across divisions, departments, and administrative units to identify needs, improve operations and outcomes, improve campus life, and add efficiencies and effectiveness

Education required to ensure success in this position:

• Master's Degree Required

Experience required to ensure success in this position:

• At least 5 - 8 years' progressive leadership experience in mid-to-high level financial management, preferably in higher education

Special skills, knowledge and abilities:

• Strong financial acumen (data analysis, budgeting, P&L management)
• Excellent leadership and team building skills
• Administrative/business/auxiliary services oversight and management skills
• Contract negotiation skills
• Ability to understand complex, integrated administrative database management systems
• Problem solving skills

License, certification, or registration necessary:

• None required; CASP certification a plus
• Participation in NACAS - National Association of College Auxiliary Services is preferred

Physical requirements:

• Ability to operate various types of office equipment; work at various work sites; and cope with long workdays including weekends as necessary

Environmental conditions:

• Office environment

Ability to operate the following vehicles or equipment:

• Standard office equipment

Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries.

Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise. Berea's students excel in the College's supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only ten federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus.

Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2025. Washington Monthly has named Berea College the #1 Best College in the nation in its 2025 College Guide. Berea College appears in their rankings as #1 College (overall):
Best College for your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars, #1 Best-in Class College, #1 Liberal Arts College and #1 Best Bang for the Buck Southern College.

Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available ea.edu.

Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.

Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If…