Vice President Student Outcomes and Professional Development

Vice President for Student Outcomes and Professional Development

Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.

Colgate University invites applications for the inaugural Vice President for Student Outcomes and Professional Development position. This newly created vice president position reports directly to the President and serves as a member of the President’s Cabinet. The role will provide strategic direction, operational oversight, and institutional leadership across career services, employer relations, internships, pre‑professional advising, institutional bridge programs, third‑party partnerships, and professional skills development for students.

• Lead a newly elevated university division dedicated to preparing students for purposeful lives and work beyond Colgate, partnering with national and international employers and professional schools.
• Engage with strategic partners to facilitate professional development opportunities for students and prepare students for their work in an increasingly AI‑shaped world.
• Strategically elevate and institutionalize unified career functions and preparation across the university.
• Build and expand strategic employer, alumni, and professional‑school partnerships.
• Drive student skill development toward post‑graduation careers, develop programs to help students engage with and understand AI tools.
• Strengthen internal collaboration with faculty and other campus partners to align the work of this new division with Colgate’s liberal arts mission.
• Manage complex organizational change and lead teams.

• Senior leader with extensive experience in career development, workforce development, and external engagement at a highly selective liberal arts college.
• Demonstrated success in building employer partnerships and internship pipelines.
• Experience leading teams and managing complex organizational change.
• Strong ability to work collaboratively with faculty and academic leadership.
• Deep understanding of evolving recruiting practices and an established network of employer and industry contacts.
• Record of building on existing strengths while creating new connections and capacities at an institution.

Salary range: $250,000 - $275,000.

Completion of the search process; full applications should be submitted by June 26, 2026.

Colgate University recognizes that equal employment opportunity can only be achieved through demonstrated leadership. It is the policy of the university to recruit, employ, retain, promote, and train employees on the basis of skills and experience, capacity to do the job, and valid job qualifications without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.