Provost & Vice Chancellor Learner Success & Academic Strategy

The Colorado Community College System (CCCS) invites applications for the position of Provost and Vice Chancellor for Learner Success and Academic Strategy
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CCCS is seeking an enterprise strategist, academic leader, relationship builder, and disciplined implementer to build and lead an integrated Learner Success and Academic Strategy (LSAS) Enterprise. Reporting directly to the Chancellor and serving as a member of the System Executive Leadership Team, the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Learner Success and Academic Strategy (Vice Chancellor) will provide strategic leadership across the academic and learner experience while building the organizational capacity necessary to connect functions that have historically operated separately.

The Vice Chancellor will join the CCCS System Executive Leadership Team at a transformative moment. Guided by the principle of the "Power of 13", the position is charged with building shared capabilities and solving enterprise challenges once so that CCCS’s thirteen colleges do not have to solve them thirteen times; all while respecting local college mission, faculty expertise, and institutional accreditation.

The Vice Chancellor will provide visionary, systems-level leadership across several core areas:

• Academic Strategy, Quality, and Portfolio Governance: Lead a coherent academic portfolio strategy informed by learner demand, workforce intelligence, wage outcomes, and academic excellence. Oversee enterprise approaches to program review, modernization, expansion, and sunset, as well as transfer, articulation, credit for prior learning, and credential stacking.
• Learner Success, Student Services, and Strategic Enrollment:Champion enterprise-level enrollment management, onboarding, retention, advising, accessibility, and wraparound supports. Provide executive leadership for the evolution of centralized financial-aid processing to improve access, maintain regulatory compliance, and reduce institutional burden. Champion approaches that reduce unnecessary loss of learner credit, time, and momentum.
• Colorado Online & Educational Innovation: Provide executive leadership for the ongoing evolution of Colorado Online, advancing a coherent cross-college operating and governance model. Position CCCS at the forefront of emerging educational models, including artificial intelligence in learning, competency-based education, and Comprehensive Learner Records / Learning and Employment Records (CLR/LER).
• Shared Governance & College Partnership: Build authentic, trust-based relationships with college presidents, chief academic officers, student affairs leaders, and faculty. Strengthen shared governance at the system level, ensuring faculty voice and expertise actively inform academic strategy.
• Organizational Leadership, Talent, and Execution: Recruit, mentor, and empower a high-performing team. Establish clear accountability, foster a collaborative service culture, and use quantitative and qualitative data to track measurable gains in learner retention, completion, and mobility.

Learn more about the position and leadership agenda in the National Prospectus in the job posting.

CCCS seeks an exceptional leader whose experience and leadership approach reflect the breadth, complexity, and ambition of this role. No candidate is likely to have led every function within the Learner Success and Academic Strategy Enterprise. The successful candidate, however, must bring sufficient academic credibility, enterprise leadership experience, strategic judgment, and demonstrated execution capability to integrate these functions around a common purpose and build an exceptional team around them.

The successful candidate will bring intellectual confidence without arrogance,…