Assistant Vice Provost & Executive Director, Center Leadership Studies

Position: Assistant Vice Provost & Executive Director, Center for Leadership Studies
Attention Candidates:
Priority will be given to applications received by November 1st, 2026.Carnegie Mellon University is a private, global research university that stands among the world’s most renowned education institutions. With path-breaking sciences and engineering, performing and fine arts, humanities and social sciences, business, public policy, information systems, inter-disciplinary distinction, big ambitions, deep research and hands-on learning, CMU doesn’t imagine the future, we invent it.

If you’re passionate about a community that challenges the curious of exceptional and diverse talents to deliver on work that matters for a better world, this opportunity may be ideal for you.

Our Center for Leadership Studies is seeking an Assistant Vice Provost & Executive Director.  A meaningful, impactful and inspiring opportunity for those committed to honing the skills necessary to amplify the talents of our students and alumni to achieve cascading influence in the lives of others, professionally and personally.

They will build on the foundation of the Center launched in 2000 to provide leadership development training to undergraduate students throughout the university. As well, in their capacity as an AVP, they will assist the Vice Provost for Education with other opportunities as may emerge, consistent with the broader horizontal influence of the Center with curricular and metacurricular partners and others within the VPE’s domain.

The AVP & Executive Director will continue to broaden and deepen the university’s long-standing commitment not just to intellectual, artistic and technical excellence, but to the broadest capacity for professional and personal impact, as both students and alumni, as has been our hallmark since our founding. It is expected that the AVP & Executive Director will be highly collaborative, delivering on both direct service and on support and influence for myriad curricular and metacurricular activities throughout the university that do now and will increasingly develop the highest-order leaders of the future, consistent with the university’s expansive vision for meaningful impact throughout the world.

Core responsibilities include:

Build upon and enhance or amend the strategic vision and mission of the Center or Leadership Studies, consistent with the overarching vision and mission of the university, based on collaborations with faculty, staff, students and alumni throughout.

Hire (as needed) a highly-talented and deeply committed team, to include Executive Fellows, Program Coordinator, and Educational Program Assistants (student staff), while working to create a collaborative environment reflective of the core values of the Center and the university.

Nurture the Center team and others engaged in leadership activities within the university, as needed, to further our capacity to deliver into the world highly skilled persons of influence, including active collective and inter-personal professional development and personal support.

Develop engaging relationships with the students involved with the Center, including teaching on average one seminar per semester as a matter of personal preference and to stay current on the lived experience in and out of the classroom.

Maintain active involvement within the national and international leadership development community by staying current with evolving research, engaging in study to refine seminar curricula, and contributing to best practices in the field. Support the vision and mission of the Vice Provost for Education in any manner of leadership or leadership-adjacent activities as may be desired, while partnering actively with faculty, academic, and non-academic staff.

Nurture close relationships with relevant CMU and…