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About the Role

Golden Gate University seeks an experienced academic leader to serve as Senior Vice Provost, a senior position responsible for overseeing core academic operations and helping lead the university's transformation during a period of growth, innovation, and change. This role requires strong academic leadership, operational discipline, emotional intelligence, and the ability to work across a complex organization with diverse stakeholders. The successful candidate will help operationalize the university's vision of an AI-enabled, multilingual, global institution designed for the future of work.

Responsibilities

Provide oversight of major academic and student-facing functions across the university.
Oversee faculty affairs, including both full-time and adjunct faculty.
Support deans and academic leaders in faculty recruitment, evaluation, development, and performance management.
Ensure academic quality across all academic programs and instructional delivery models.
Help manage faculty policies, workload planning, academic governance, and academic standards.
Partner with faculty and academic leadership to maintain a culture of academic excellence and continuous improvement.
Provide executive oversight for admissions operations.
Oversee academic advising and student support to promote student success and retention.
Supervise student services and ensure student experience across all modalities.
Oversee registrar operations, academic records management, scheduling, and related functions.
Ensure alignment between academic operations, enrollment growth, and student persistence outcomes.
Oversee day-to-day academic operations across colleges, schools, and academic administrative units.
Ensure effective implementation of institutional priorities and cross-functional initiatives.
Improve systems, workflows, and processes across the academic enterprise.
Identify operational bottlenecks and implement scalable solutions as the university grows.
Lead projects requiring coordination across multiple academic and administrative units.
Support development of innovative degree models, new academic programs, and emerging delivery formats.
Help advance university-wide adoption of AI-enabled teaching, learning, and operational systems.
Build systems and processes to support a growing global student population.
Help ensure the university remains operationally agile in a changing higher education environment.

Requirements

Terminal degree (PhD, EdD, JD, or equivalent).
Significant senior academic leadership experience in higher education, such as dean, associate provost, vice provost, or comparable role.
Demonstrated experience overseeing faculty affairs, academic administration, enrollment management, and student-facing operations.
Strong understanding of accreditation, curriculum management, faculty governance, and academic policy.
Proven ability to manage complex organizations and lead institutional change initiatives.
Strong listening skills and emotional intelligence.
Ability to work productively with a wide range of personalities and leadership styles.
Strong consensus-building and a collaborative approach.
Patience, maturity, and professionalism when managing interpersonal or organizational dynamics.
Excellent operational judgment and strong execution skills.
Ability to manage complex systems while maintaining attention to detail.
A practical, solutions-oriented approach to problem solving.
Comfort operating in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment.
Willingness to challenge assumptions and rethink conventional higher education models.
Ability to move initiatives forward while maintaining trust and alignment.

Skills

Academic leadership
Operational discipline
Emotional intelligence
Consensus-building
Collaborative approach
Operational judgment
Execution skills
Problem solving
AI-enabled teaching
AI-enabled learning
AI-enabled operational systems

Location

San Francisco, CA 94105

Work Type

Full Time
Flexible schedule
Evening and weekend hours may be required

Experience Level

Senior academic leadership experience

Education Level

Terminal degree (PhD, EdD, JD, or equivalent)

Salary/Compensations

$225,000.00 - $275,000.00 Salary/year

Benefits

The University's comprehensive benefits program

About the Company

Founded in 1901, Golden Gate University is a private, nonprofit university based in San Francisco with a long history of serving working adults and professional learners.
GGU is undergoing an ambitious transformation, expanding its global presence, launching innovative academic programs in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, developing international partnerships, creating new hybrid and shared-campus models, and building one of the world’s first AI-native global universities.
The institution serves students across the United States and multiple countries through online and hybrid models.

Equal Opportunity

Golden Gate University is an equal employment opportunity employer.
We support inclusive excellence and are committed to creating a safe and welcoming community for all.
University policy prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion/creed, national origin, ancestry, age, sex/gender, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, gender stereotyping, and gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, taking a protected leave (e.g., family medical or pregnancy leave), or on any other basis protected by applicable laws.
The University has a strong commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion, and to maintaining working and learning environments that reinforces these practices.
The University welcomes and encourages applications from all demographics.