Assistant Vice President Student Engagement

Job Description

Reporting to the Vice President for Student Affairs, the Assistant Vice President for Student Engagement serves as a member of the Student Affairs Leadership Team and the Vice President for Student Affairs’ Council.

The AVP champions a collaborative, unrelenting commitment to a robust student experience that prioritizes students’ goals, strengths, and learning.

With a visionary, learning-centered, and integrative mindset, the AVP for Student Engagement supervises five offices to cultivate a rich experiential foundation for students, including Student Engagement & Campus Life, the Cranwell International Center, Fraternity & Sorority Life, Living Learning Programs, and VT Engage:
The Center for Leadership & Service Learning.

The AVP cultivates a synergistic approach to learning through organizational and community life, fostering transformative contexts where powerful results are possible through goal setting, pathway building, and agency instilling.

Although the Experiential VT Program is the programmatic responsibility for all of Student Affairs, this AVP and their team serve as champions for the initiative by growing momentum, building infrastructure, and measuring success.

The AVP oversees and convenes student advisory groups to the Vice President for Student Affairs, including Order of the Gavel and Core Leadership.

The AVP is involved in shared governance and serves as the Senior Advisor to the Undergraduate Student Senate, with advisors and staff that report through VT Engage.

Indicators of the position’s success include measurable increases in student engagement in campus life, evidence of student engagement, impact on student well-being and success, and the creation of meaningful partnerships with university and community organizations.

• Seasoned educator with an unrelenting commitment to student success, learning, and belonging.
• Experience and understanding of student learning and human development literature.
• Collaborative and entrepreneurial senior leader with the highest level of communication, supervision, administrative, and organizational skills.
• Enthusiastic support of the Division’s Aspirations for Student Learning and Virginia Tech’s mission.
• Ability to manage multiple and competing priorities and take initiative in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a team of colleagues and serve as a representative of the division.
• Experience leading and engaging a team of professional team members.
• Criminal background check required.
• Master’s degree in higher education, student affairs, counseling or a related field.
• Significant and increasing levels of responsibility with key facets of the AVP role.
• Comfort with advising student leaders.

• Experience in a Student Affairs area, especially at the director level.
• Familiarity with auxiliary and E & G budgets.
• Doctoral degree in a related field preferred.

$180k - $195k

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