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Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health and Wellness and Wardenburg Health Center Director
As Colorado’s flagship university, CU-Boulder is a dynamic community of scholars and learners
The Position
In addition, this position must be successful in: working with highly motivated students
Qualifications
Application and Nomination
SJG — The Spelman & Johnson Group
Visit the CU-Boulder website at www.colorado.edu
The University of Colorado is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment.
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The University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO
situated on one of the most spectacular college campuses in the country. With a proud tradition
of academic excellence, four Nobel laureates, and more than 50 members of prestigious academic
academies, CU-Boulder has blossomed in size and quality since opening its doors in 1877 –
attracting superb faculty, staff, and students and building strong programs in the sciences,
engineering, business, law, arts, humanities, education, music, and many other disciplines.
Today, CU-Boulder strives to serve the people of Colorado and to engage with the world
through excellence in our teaching, research, creative work, and service.
Reporting to the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, the Assistant Vice Chancellor for
Health and Wellness/Wardenburg Health Center Director (AVC) leads the Health and
Wellness directors and the Wardenburg Health Center teams, while being responsive to
current and emerging student health issues and responding to both internal and external
constituencies. This position oversees a $20M dollar budget, 170 professional and classified
staff and approximately 90 student staff. This individual must demonstrate a personal
demeanor that inspires excellence and collaboration within Health and Wellness,
Student Affairs, and throughout the campus and community.
and student leaders; providing the appropriate support and student mentoring to ensure
the long-term vision for sustained excellence; fostering an atmosphere of mutual respect,
caring, collaborative engagement, accountability, and personal growth in health and wellness;
and building collaborative relationships within CU and the broader community to promote
health and wellness. The successful candidate will provide leadership for planning and
response to key public health emergencies, creatively responding to the students’ needs
and the needs of the broader community while advocating for departments and Wardenburg.
A strong working knowledge of and familiarity with health care standards, issues,
trends, personnel, insurance, and national health care agenda/reform legislation is essential.
A master’s degree in higher education administration, public health, health administration or
a related field is required. Candidates will possess five years of experience in higher education
demonstrating increased levels of responsibility, supervision, and administrative oversight
of programs; excellent abilities and a proven track record in leading, developing, and implementing
strategic vision, mission, and plans to sustain efforts over time; leadership skills and experience
including teamwork, collaboration, change management, and the ability to assess and make
hard decisions; demonstrated ability to cultivate, model, and foster an inclusive environment
for diversity in all its forms; the ability to increase and enhance excellence by developing
systematic methods of assessment to improve and renew programs, incorporating
benchmarking against best practices and gathering necessary data for informed decision-
making; proven ability to effectively lead and manage teams of skilled professionals, make
tough personnel decisions, and work well as a member of leadership teams; demonstrated
written communication skills; demonstrated fiscal management and business skills;
an understanding of higher education, combined with the knowledge of best practices
in the advancement of student health care and/or wellness programs such as counseling,
recreation, or health promotion; and the ability to be collaborative and involve others
in decision making.
Review of applications begins on February 26, 2010 and will continue until the position
is filled. SJG — The Spelman & Johnson Group is assisting with this search. To apply,
please visit jobsatcu.com. For confidential inquiries, or to nominate an individual for
this position, please email Jennifer N. Hiatt, Search Associate at jnh@sjgsearch.com
or call 413-529-2895.
The University of Colorado at Boulder
Jennifer N. Hiatt, Search Associate
