Provost and Vice-President Academic
On-siteMain, State of Punjab, Republic of India
Job Summary
Guide the University of Guelph's academic enterprise through transformation by shaping priorities, informing institutional decision-making, and supporting long-term success as chief academic officer. Enhance the student experience, advance academic excellence, and foster an engaged community while ensuring alignment and stewardship across diverse constituencies. Design new financial and incentive models to secure sustainability, balance competing priorities between academic excellence and resource allocation, and implement difficult prioritization decisions with clarity. Lead with decisiveness alongside genuine consultation, building trust with the President, Senate, Board of Governors, faculty, staff, students, and external partners to position the institution for continued impact.
Required Qualifications
- Accomplished scholar with a distinguished record in academic leadership, teaching, and research
- Experience leading high-performing teams within a complex university environment
- Strategic leader with strong self and situational awareness
- Judgment, adaptability, credibility, and integrity to navigate complexity, set priorities, and build alignment across diverse constituencies
- Grounded in the values of higher education and collegial governance
- Compelling, forward-looking perspective on the future of higher education
- Understanding of how artificial intelligence, changing learner expectations, and new approaches to teaching, learning, and academic integrity are reshaping universities and the student experience
- Academic and enterprise mindset
- Deep commitment to academic values
- Clear understanding of how universities are funded and resourced
- Demonstrated experience making and implementing difficult academic prioritization decisions
- Experience with the allocation and reallocation of resources across programs and units in alignment with institutional priorities
- Ability to design new financial and incentive models that secure long-term sustainability while preserving a comprehensive, multidisciplinary character
- Comfortability navigating competing priorities
- Ability to communicate trade-offs involved in balancing academic excellence, the student experience, and financial sustainability with clarity and candour
- Strong commitment to Indigenization, equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging
- Ability to contribute to a culture in which all members of the University community feel respected, supported, and empowered to succeed
- Effective communicator and relationship builder
- Experience working successfully with the President and fellow vice-presidents
- Experience working with faculty, staff, students, academic leaders, Senate, the Board of Governors, alumni, governments, Indigenous communities, and external partners
- Inclusive and empowering leadership style
- Ability to value diverse perspectives
- Ability to bring people together around shared goals
- Ability to build trust through openness, transparency, and authentic engagement
- Ability to pair genuine consultation with decisiveness
- Ability to ensure complex decisions are both well made and effectively implemented
- Ability to hold the community's confidence even when decisions are difficult or not universally supported
- Canadian or permanent resident status (priority given)
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