Associate Vice Chancellor & CHRO

Associate Vice Chancellor & CHRO

ABOUT VANDERBILT
Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee, is a top-15 private research university offering a full-range of undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. Founded in 1873 with a $1 million gift from “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt to establish an institution that would “contribute to strengthening the ties that should exist between all sections of our common country,” today Vanderbilt University is globally renowned for its transformative education and research. The university's 10 schools reside on a parklike campus set in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee, providing a collaborative culture that empowers leaders of tomorrow.

Top-ranked in both academics and financial aid, Vanderbilt offers an immersive residential undergraduate experience, with programs in the liberal arts and sciences, engineering, music, education and human development. The university also is home to nationally and internationally recognized graduate schools of law, education, business, medicine, nursing and divinity, and offers robust graduate-degree programs across a range of disciplines.

Vanderbilt is committed to the strength of its interdisciplinary research enterprise and to inclusive excellence, believing that profound breakthroughs happen when scholars of different perspectives, races, gender identities, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds work together. The university's prominent alumni base includes Nobel Prize winners, members of Congress, governors, ambassadors, judges, admirals, CEOs, university presidents, physicians, attorneys, and professional sports figures playing in the NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, the PGA and LPGA.

Vanderbilt—an independent, privately supported university—and the affiliated nonprofit Vanderbilt University Medical Center engage in frequent cross-disciplinary collaboration to drive innovation and positive change across society at large. Together, the number of people employed by these two organizations exceeds that of the largest private employer in the Middle Tennessee region.

The university is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, a member of the Association of American Universities, and a member of the Southeastern Conference for NCAA D1 athletics.

ROLE SUMMARY
The Associate Vice Chancellor, Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) is a key member of the Division of Administration’s executive team and the broader senior leadership team at Vanderbilt University. This role provides strategic, operational, and thought leadership in the development and delivery of people focused programs and initiatives that support and enable the University to demonstrate its values, fulfill its mission, execute on the strategic plan and vision, and cultivate a culture consistent with the values, mission, and vision.

The CHRO leads the Office of Human Resources and is responsible for providing oversight for strategic and operational leadership in the design, development, implementation, administration, and communication of the University's employee- focused programs, services, and initiatives while effectively assessing internal opportunities, building on past successes while shaping a vision and maintaining a focus on the future, delivering decisions and efforts proactively through data- informed decision making, and strategically developing service and consultancy models to deliver quality and comprehensive support and services to University leaders and decision makers.

The CHRO is responsible for building collaborative partnerships across the University that lead to consistent, strategic, and comprehensive human resources practices and programs. This includes but is not limited to delivering complex and comprehensive services and leadership and ensuring implementation of leading practices focused on the notions of recruitment, retention, and rewards across an array of functions: employee and labor relations, compensation and careers, classification and compliance, benefits and retirement, wellbeing and work/life (including the operations of the Vanderbilt Child and Family Center), payroll and HR processing, talent acquisition including temporary services and internal executive search services, workforce data and analytics, employee learning and engagement, HR service delivery and solutions management, and providing strategic and customer focused thought leadership for Vanderbilt University.

In short, the CHRO is responsible for creating a people environment and employee experience that is supportive of the campus mission, vision, and values across the HR continuum through partnerships of people, technology and data, strategies, and integrated systems of services that demonstrate the University’s values and speak to the ideas of:

• Working and growing together as a community of communities... we are One Vanderbilt.
• Providing a work environment where every staff and faculty member can be their authentic and best self, while providing the resources and opportunities to learn and grow.
• Encouraging development, collaboration, and partnership both internally and externally while fostering the value that every member of the Vanderbilt community can lead and grow regardless of title or position.

ABOUT HUMAN RESOURCES
The Office of Human Resources comprises six key areas:

• Benefits & Wellbeing
• People & Engagement
• HR Consulting & Employee Relations
• Vanderbilt Child & Family
• HRIS (transaction management and processing)
• Payroll

Human Resources is part of the Division of Administration, led by the Vice Chancellor of Administration. The division provides the infrastructure essential to realizing Vanderbilt’s mission of creating and disseminating knowledge for the betterment of society. In order to carry out the university’s mission, the division embraces a vision based on leadership development, service excellence, and sound infrastructure.

PROFILE OF AN IDEAL CANDIDATE

• At least ten years of progressive experience in human resources leadership including at least five years serving in a senior HR leadership role (i.e. director or above) is necessary. Contemporary working knowledge of challenges facing institutions of higher education is considered helpful to the success of an individual in this role and considered highly important.
• Strong customer service skills, with the ability to work and communicate with a diverse group of clients and colleagues, is necessary. An authentic, engaging, and collaborative style that values and thrives on building ongoing relationships with various constituencies on campus is critically important.
• Exemplary analytical and critical thinking skills, and the ability to organize, analyze, summarize, and effectively present data to a diverse group of constituents is necessary. Intellectual curiosity, innovative spirit, bold thinking, decisive, goal oriented, and a willingness to take calculated risks is necessary.
• Focus on execution and getting results; is metrics and data driven and has the ability to build a strong culture of clear responsibility and accountability is necessary. Skill and knowledge in the collection, analysis and determination of labor market, total compensation, benefits, and workforce data, and to apply it to relative institutional analysis and translate to the university’s ability to recruit, retain, and reward the best talent in a highly competitive marketplace is necessary.
• Leadership skills, with ability to effectively lead and manage a team of professionals in high volume work involving accuracy, productivity, confidentiality, security and adherence to deadlines with an ability to transfer knowledge and foster accountability is necessary. High level of personal integrity, ethics, initiative, and strong interpersonal skills is required.
• Demonstrated track record leading, implementing, and communicating large-scale change management initiatives in complex organizations is critical. Excellent collaboration, project management, time management and negotiation skills with ability to multi-task and meet deadlines; good organizational skills with attention to detail are necessary.
• Ability to effectively communicate ideas, to coach and facilitate change at all levels; a well-rounded business acumen and sound business judgment, tact and diplomacy; experience interfacing with senior business leaders and working both independently as well as through others is necessary.
• Demonstrable experience fostering an employer brand, identifying opportunities and solutions through research, sourcing, and networking, and having responsibility for fostering strong candidate and employee experiences, including recognition and engagement, is preferred.
• Demonstrable organizational skills, verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to articulate and present complex or delicate information to various audiences is necessary.
• Knowledge of current trends in human resources best practices, a creative and innovative approach to solutions driven problem solving, demonstrated ability to foster and support university wide collaborations, and strong communication and presentation skills with ability to write and communicate clear, concise, logical, presentations and analytical reports to a wide range of audiences is necessary.
• Collective bargaining and labor relations experience is strongly preferred; experience with self-insured benefits plans is preferred.

LIVING & WORKING IN NASHVILLE
Nashville is consistently ranked as one of the best places in America to live and work. It is the largest city in Tennessee, and a recognized center for music, healthcare, publishing, banking, and technology services. The climate is moderate, with four distinct seasons, none of which are extreme. There is no personal income tax on earnings in Tennessee, saving the average relocating family between 3% and 10% of income – or a savings of $3,000 to $10,000 for every $100,000 earned.

The 10-county Nashville region is home to more than 1.8 million people and 40,000 businesses, with the city attracting more diverse new business from across the country than any city its size over the past 20 years.

The region is adding about 10,000 – 20,000 new jobs every year, in all sectors. Recently, Forbes ranked Nashville as the third best positioned city “to grow and prosper in the coming decade.” Nashville has over 12,000 acres of beautiful parks and a thriving, walkable downtown with a free bus and a bike-sharing system providing access to over 200 downtown restaurants and 124 performance venues for live music and the performing and visual arts.

The “arts participation” rate is nearly five times the national average. And, with 111,379 students in 18 colleges and universities, Nashville is the third largest college town in America.

More information regarding the greater Nashville region, including helpful information for those relocating to the area is available at: www.vuyourlife.com.

COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTS

• Vanderbilt is ranked perennially as one of the top 15 universities in the nation, a top tier best value school, and recognized on multiple “best of” lists for its learning communities, service learning, undergraduate teaching, and is a top 25 “Most Innovative School” according to U.S. News & World Report.
• The Princeton Review has long held Vanderbilt in high esteem, ranking it as having some of the happiest students in the nation, as a college city that gets high marks, as one of the most beautiful campuses in the country, and as a one of the nation’s best run colleges.
• The University is proud to have been named as one of “America’s Best Large Employers” as well as a top employer in Tennessee and the Nashville metropolitan area by Forbes for several years running.
• Nashville has been ranked as a top five "Brain Magnet” for gains in people with college educations and Forbes has ranked the city as a top ten “Best City for Finding Employment Right Now” and as a top twenty “Best Place for Business and Careers.”
• The Gulch, an urban mixed-use neighborhood in downtown Nashville, is the first “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design” (LEED) certified platinum neighborhood in America.
• The Nashville region is home to two of the top 100 K-12 public schools in America and the top school district in the state of Tennessee.
• Nashville is home to successful and well-respected NFL, NHL, and MLS franchises. The Nashville Symphony is recognize internationally and has received 13 GRAMMY® nominations and six wins.
• Rolling Stone has ranked Nashville as the number on “live music scene in America.”
• With a growing number of restaurants. spread across the region, to meet a variety of price points and culinary interests, Nashville has been named a top city for foodies by Travel+Leisure.

For more facts and highlights about Vanderbilt University, please visit the University Quick Facts and FutureVU pages, and for more information about Nashville and the exciting goings on for visitors and residents at Visit Music City and VU Your Life.

Please apply online at http://vanderbi.lt/vuavcchro

Vanderbilt University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply.