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Job Title

Provost

Requisition Number

FE02923

Working Title

Chief Academic Officer

Department Name

89000:Provost

Work Location

Lexington, KY

Type of Position

Faculty

Position Time Status

Full-Time

Tenure Track Status

Tenure Track

Required Education

Discipline appropriate terminal degree

Required Related Experience

Proven and outstanding record of academic and administrative leadership, research, and service commensurate with appointment as professor with tenure.

Required License/Registration/Certification

n/a

Job Summary

**MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is focused intently on its mission advancing Kentucky.

We believe **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. what we call the university of, for and with Kentucky is essential to creating a state that is healthier, wealthier and wiser.

We are committed to preparing students for lives of meaning and purpose and educating the skilled workforce the state needs to compete in a global economy through a career-ready curriculum that provides students with critical thinking and analytical skills and the creative capacity that they will use not simply to attain a job but to create more of them.

We are focused on research that tackles Kentucky's most vexing challenges from deaths from opioids and cancer and innovative solutions to our country's energy needs to investing in path-breaking approaches to questions of equity and access that break down historic systemic and systematic barriers around color or class, gender or identity.

We are growing a nationally regarded health-care system through strategic partnerships across Kentucky that is bringing primary and advanced specialty care to more people in need.

And at its heart, we are guided by a founding mission that is as relevant today as it was more than 155 years ago. We are a land-grant institution devoted to service in every corner and community of the Commonwealth whose name we bear and whose future we were created to secure.

Now, emboldened by a decade of progress record graduation and retention rates, historic levels of research expenditures and grants and a $2.1 billion philanthropy campaign UK is poised to thrive as one of the country's leading public research institutions.

With a new strategic plan focused squarely on how the institution can advance Kentucky in the 21st century, UK is seeking a provost who can work at the intersection of these missions, while focused squarely on ensuring academic excellence by empowering a world-class faculty of leading poets and authors, artists and musicians, scientists and scholars.

As the chief academic officer, the provost is charged with supporting all of UK's academic programs, 18 academic and professional colleges, more than 200 majors and an institution that is one of just eight in the country with a major academic health center and a full spectrum of academic colleges and professional schools on one contiguous campus.

As chief liaison with more than 3,000 faculty, the provost is charged with nurturing and growing a culture of collaboration across and among disciplines to further transform a strong curriculum into one that is nimbler and more responsive to a dynamic workforce and interdependent global economy.

Working closely with UK's deans, the provost will also lead efforts to identify and establish academic priorities for each college in a way that works in concert with the institution's strategic plan and priorities. A newly adopted plan The UK PURPOSE has identified five core principles that will empower and enliven that university's seminal mission to advance the state: Putting Students First
Taking Care of Our People
Inspiring Ingenuity
Ensuring Greater Trust, Transparency and Accountability
Bringing Together Many People, One Community
The provost will work with colleges on the resource management and budgeting necessary to align with institutional and academic priorities and to meet the metrics and goals associated with the strategic plan.

Directly reporting to UK President Eli Capilouto, and as a member of a 12-person administrative cabinet, the provost also is expected to provide senior-level counsel on the myriad issues that confront a growing institution with nearly 32,000 students and more than 20,000 employees.

**MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is a dynamic and growing institution, one poised to establish itself among the top ranks of American public higher education. But that recognition isn't an end; it is a marker of the institution's capacious commitment to advancing Kentucky.

Academic excellence fueled by outstanding faculty, emboldened by a creative and modern curriculum and undergirded by transdisciplinary collaboration is an essential element in the university's continued progress and transformation. The provost is a vital leader in ensuring that success.

Greenwood/Asher & Associates, LLC. is assisting **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. in this search. Applications and nominations are now being accepted. To be considered, you must complete the UK application and contact:

Jan Greenwood, Founder, Greenwood/Asher & Associates

E-mail: ****
OR

Julie Schrodt, Executive Search Consultant

E-mail: ****

The search will be conducted with a commitment of confidentiality for candidates until finalists are selected. Initial screening of applications will begin immediately and will continue until an appointment is made. For best consideration, applications and nominations should be provided by March 1, 2022.

Given the COVID-19 pandemic, and the need to protect our university community including our students, staff, faculty and visitors, **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is requiring COVID-19 vaccination for all new hires prior to starting employment. Therefore, as of October 18, 2021, all new hires prior to their first day of employment must submit appropriate documentation showing, i) completion of the first vaccination against COVID-19, or ii) completion of the full vaccination series against COVID-19, or iii) approved exemption (medical contraindications or a sincerely held religious belief) through the formal exemption process from the COVID-19 vaccination requirement. For those employees who have completed the first vaccination against COVID-19 prior to their first day of employment, the second vaccination (if applicable) must be completed following the vaccination recommended schedule to be considered fully vaccinated.

Skills / Knowledge / Abilities

Does this position have supervisory responsibilities?

Yes

Preferred Education/Experience

To advance scholarship, research, creative activity, and public service across the university's academic colleges and professional schools, the provost must support academic excellence and be an effective advocate of the core values of the academy on behalf of the faculty. He or she must facilitate transdisciplinary collaboration across college lines.

The provost must be an effective executive, gifted with analytical skills, the capacity to foster a rich entrepreneurial campus environment and the ability to effectively communicate the institution's vision, mission, values and priorities. To that end, the ideal candidate will have the following professional qualifications and personal characteristics:
Professional experience:
Substantial relevant experience and a deep commitment to the instruction, research and service missions of a major research university; ability to function in a complex, high-demand environment, managing multiple priorities simultaneously and accustomed to setting and achieving goals.
Academic leadership ability:
Experience in setting an academic agenda and in leading within a complex and diverse major research university; broad understanding of current issues in higher education; commitment to standards of intellectual and academic excellence.
Management experience:
Experience as a proven senior executive in a major research university of relevant size and complexity; evidence of vision, service orientation and entrepreneurialism in developing, in consultation with others, creative solutions to challenges facing complex organizations, both immediate and long-term; experience with financial management of an academic enterprise; experience in long-term strategic planning in a collaborative environment, with a commitment to assessment and accountability; skilled in managing organizational change and optimal alignment of personnel with strategic goals and objectives.
Leadership and communication skills:
An effective communicator and an excellent, active listener, experienced in delegating authority while guiding and monitoring critical operations; adept at collaboration in all dimensions (with the president and president's cabinet) but also with students, alumni, staff, and faculty, particularly with respect to a record of genuine engagement in shared governance processes.
Commitment to diversity and inclusion:
An in-depth understanding and proven experience in embracing and nurturing the compelling interest in the educational benefit of diversity and inclusion.
Heath system experience:
Understanding of how to promote and support academic excellence in instruction and research in colleges with major missions in clinical health and care delivery.
Academic credentials:
Discipline-appropriate terminal degree and an established record of academic achievement qualifying the candidate for appointment as a tenured professor of UK's faculty; experience in university teaching and in research, scholarship, and creative activity.
Personal qualities:
The highest standards of ethical decision-making, a passionate commitment to diversity and inclusion, and respect for shared governance demonstrated by a lived commitment to dialogue and collaborative processes that align faculty, staff, students, alumni, citizens, and policymakers in support of the imperatives that emerge from a transparent strategic analysis of the institution's opportunities and challenges.

Deadline to Apply

Open Until Filled

Yes

University Community of Inclusion

**MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce by ensuring all our students, faculty, and staff work in an environment of openness and acceptance. We strive to foster a community where people of all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives can feel secure and welcome. We also value the well-being of each of our employees and are dedicated to creating a healthy place to work, learn and live. In the interest of maintaining a safe and healthy environment for our students, employees, patients and visitors **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is a Tobacco & Drug Free campus.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we strongly encourage veterans, individuals with disabilities, women, and all minorities to consider our employment opportunities.

Any candidate offered a position may be required to pass pre-employment screenings as mandated by University of Kentucky Human Resources. These screenings may include a national background check and/or drug screen.

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Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*). * Given the COVID-19 pandemic, and the need to protect our university community including our students, staff, faculty and visitors, **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is requiring COVID-19 vaccination for all new hires prior to starting employment. Therefore, as of October 18, 2021, all new hires prior to their first day of employment, must submit appropriate documentation showing, i) completion of the first vaccination against COVID-19, or ii) completion of the full vaccination series against COVID-19, or iii) approved exemption (medical contraindications or a sincerely held religious belief) through the formal exemption process from the COVID-19 vaccination requirement. For those employees who have completed the first vaccination against COVID-19 prior to their first day of employment, the second vaccination (if applicable) must be completed following the vaccination recommended schedule to be considered fully vaccinated. I understand that I will be obligated to comply with the new COVID-19 vaccination requirement prior to starting employment at **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***.. Yes
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