Vice President for Campus Planning, Infrastructure and Facil…

The vice president serves as a collaborative and strategic leader, fostering a culture that highly values customer service, engagement, communication, and responsiveness to faculty, students, and staff. Efficiency and transparency at all levels of the organization are essential. The vice president will be joining a dynamic university with transformational initiatives underway, major capital construction in progress, and significant planning initiatives on the horizon. The vice president will develop and maintain relationships with faculty, students, staff, and the broader community that will facilitate the successful completion of projects, initiatives, and deployment of new programs. The successful candidate will bring broad-based facilities planning and operations experience and a record of leading change, implementing innovative solutions to complex problems, streamlining processes and systems, and creating and delivering large scale strategic plans and projects.

The vice president oversees the care, maintenance and development of Virginia Tech’s campuses in Blacksburg, Roanoke, and the greater Washington, D.C., metro area; university’s research facilities located throughout the commonwealth; and the Steger Center for International Scholarship located in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland. The university completed a visionary, award-winning master plan in 2018 that will guide the future transformational direction for the Blacksburg campus. Master planning work for the Roanoke and Washington, D.C., area is underway. Additionally, the university had a significant role in the Commonwealth of Virginia’s successful proposal to Amazon which resulted in their decision to build part of its HQ2 project in Northern Virginia. The Virginia Tech Innovation Campus will triple the university’s footprint in the region with plans to build a 1-million-square-foot Innovation Campus as part of a mixed-use development in the Potomac Yard neighborhood of Alexandria. The university’s 6-year capital plan for 2020-2026 includes over 27 major projects (>$10M), an estimated 6 minor capital projects (

To manage the expected campus growth, the vice president will lead long-term planning efforts around infrastructure, as well as maintenance of existing infrastructure and facilities. The university operates an electric system that provides service to the campus and over 6,000 residents in the Town of Blacksburg.

The vice president is administratively responsible for the Buildings and Grounds Committee of the Board of Visitors and provides administrative oversight to the University Building Official who has a direct reporting relationship to the governing board.

The vice president oversees a team of approximately 350 talented employees and, in addition to the capital project budget, a base operating budget in excess of $24 million.

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic direction and supervision to capital planning and construction, university planning, facilities operations and maintenance, real estate and leasing, sustainability, campus utilities (including VT Electric Service);
• Initiate division-wide programs and associated procedures to facilitate strategic and tactical objectives;
• Participate in the overall planning efforts for the university in response to direction articulated through the university’s strategic priorities;
• Direct the preparation and development of short- and long-term plans and budgets, including complex financial plans to support capital projects;
• Assume compliance with all applicable regulatory provisions of state and federal agencies;
• Develop and maintain requirements for all facilities improvements, renovations, and new construction;
• Develop and a maintain space management system and associated processes that will allow for informed decision making and space accountability;
• Serve as champion for developing and maintaining an accessible and inclusive campus
• Advance campus master plan vision;
• Play a key role in the development and negotiation of public/private partnerships; and,
• Serve as partner with local governmental officials to work on issues where the university interfaces with the local governments, particularly in the areas of infrastructure planning and development.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or other relevant field;
• MBA or other Master’s degree in related field;
• Significant leadership experience in planning and facilities management;
• Demonstrated record of change management, supplemented by strong organizational skills and an entrepreneurial spirit, coupled with the ability to plan strategically;
• Experience with overseeing budgets and financial management;
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion with the ability to create a campus that is inclusive and accessible;
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills for a wide range of audiences – faculty, students, staff, governmental entities, other stakeholders; and,
• Strategic mindset with the ability to think through complex challenges, develop collaborative solutions, and execute in ways that align with the organization’s core values and strategic objectives.