Career Opportunities
Leadership Opportunities
Dean, College of Architecture and Environmental Design
Cal Poly seeks a new Dean of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design. Cal Poly’s acclaimed College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED) offers a unique blend of eight degree programs in five closely related departments: architectural engineering, architecture, city and regional planning, construction management, and landscape architecture. The university seeks a visionary leader with a deep and demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; a solid scholarly record; and the ability to foster collaboration within the college, across the university, and beyond.
The dean’s principal responsibility will be to promote Cal Poly’s mission of “Learn by Doing” through excellent education in a comprehensive polytechnic setting, generating Ready Day One graduates. The dean will work in close partnership with the Provost, President, other senior administrators, faculty, staff, and students, to lead and oversee the college’s vision and identity, academic programs and scholarship, student success, and external reputation and relationships. The successful candidate will be an inspiring and energetic leader with the proven capacity to advance an academic mission through excellent stewardship, thoughtful cultivation of key relationships and sound financial management.
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Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Cal Poly seeks a collegial, innovative, and equity -minded leader with a vision for 21st century education within a polytechnical university. The SVP will play a critical role in both the development and execution of strategic initiatives within the division of Academic Affairs and across the university.
Managing a diverse portfolio of short and long-term priorities, the SVP must have a deep understanding of the interconnections between enrollment and academic programming, embrace academic innovation and program development, and value the importance of student affairs and co-curricular life to student success, and promote mission-driven, data-informed decision-making. The senior vice provost provides administrative oversight of the units within Academic Affairs that support academic innovations and programs, student academic success, and special initiatives within the division as well as those with cross-divisional collaborations. The senior vice provost collaborates closely with the dean of library services, dean of Extended, Professional and Continuing Education (EPaCE), and the dean of graduate education to advance the academic priorities of the division. The senior vice provost is also available to help the Office of the Provost facilitate and support existing and emerging cross divisional partnerships.
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Additional Opportunities
All opportunities in the Academic Affairs division and at the university are posted on the Cal Poly Jobs website.