Posting Details

Position Information

Fiscal Year


Position Title
Assistant Vice President for Student Engagement and Success (AVP)

Classification Title
Assistant Vice President

Department
Office of the Vice President for Student Life

Posting Number
P260136

Posting Link
https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/63100

Employer
State

Bargaining Unit
13 - MC Professional

Position Type
M/C Professional

Professional Appointment Term
Administrative

Salary Grade
MP3

Posting Detail Information

Position Summary

The Division of Student Life invites applications for the Assistant Vice President for Student Engagement and Success (AVP) position. In this role, you will serve as a senior executive leader within the Division of Student Life, responsible for advancing institution-wide student engagement, belonging, retention, career readiness, and post-graduation success. The AVP serves as a strategic advisor to divisional and university leadership, influencing policy, resource allocation, organizational effectiveness, and student success outcomes across academic and administrative divisions. You will provide leadership to several units within the division including Orientation and Transition Programs, Residential Life, Student Engagement, StartUp and Innovation Collaboratory (entrepreneurship), and the Career Design Center.

Your duties will include:

• Create an overarching vision and provide strategic leadership to create a campus culture that promotes students' academic learning and career development, provides a safe, healthy, nurturing and welcoming campus environment for a diverse student body, and create a sense of community and connection.
• Leads division-wide student success initiatives that measurably improve retention, persistence, graduation, experiential learning participation, and postgraduate outcomes through evidence-based interventions.
• Serves as a senior liaison with Undergraduate Education, Graduate School, Enrollment Management, Institutional Research, Advancement, and other external campus partners to align curricular and co-curricular ecosystems that advance student success.
• Support student engagement initiatives within the Student Engagement and Success portfolio by working collaboratively with faculty, staff, students, and campus and community partners.
• Develop systems and processes to measure and assess the effectiveness of services for how you impact retention, graduation, engagement, outcomes, and student/alumni learning objectives.
• Develop and disseminate key performance indicators and accompanying reports on student success and career metrics.
• Adjust programs and services as needed to improve outcomes and impact.

The successful incumbent is a strong, strategic and transparent leader, with the ability to motivate self and others through building consensus. They will have the ability to work collaboratively with other members of the Vice President's leadership team to develop and align planning, policies, budgets, and communications.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree
• A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in higher education within student affairs/success, student engagement, or a relevant field.
• Demonstrated record of leading innovative and equity-focused student success initiatives in a higher education setting
• Proven knowledge of trends and best practices in higher education as they relate to career and professional development
• The ability to persuasively present data and advocate for decisions based on best practices; and a record of professional accomplishment.
• Demonstrated experience in support of a diverse working environment dedicated to principles of social justice, inclusivity and equity.
• Demonstrated experience in personnel management to include hiring, supervising, and coaching employees, as well as experience providing leadership and direction in programmatic, budgetary, and operational functions.
• Organizational skills to set goals, prioritize assignments, monitor performance, and exceed set deadlines.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with experience creating and delivering presentations to small and large diverse groups.
• Ability to develop innovative approaches, techniques and procedures to provide more efficient services.
• Ability to demonstrate critical thinking based upon in-depth data, substantiating information, while considering and respecting others' input, personal values, and ethics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Terminal degree preferred

Our University Community

Prodig+
No

Executive Position
Yes

Physical Demands

Driving Requirements
This position does not drive a university owned vehicle

Salary Range
$170,000 - $190,000

Additional Salary Information

Job Type
Full-Time

Campus
North Campus

Posting Alerts

Special Instructions Summary

Additional Information

Is a background check required for this posting?
Yes

Background Check Notification
For non-internal applicants: a selected candidate will have to complete and pass a background check prior to appointment.

Contact Information

Contact's Name
Kesha Foster

Contact's Pronouns

Contact's Title
Director, Student Life Human Resources/Unit Diversity Officer

Contact's Email
[email protected]

Contact's Phone
716-645-2376

Posting Dates

Posted
06/25/2026

Deadline for Internal Applicants
07/09/2026

Deadline for External Applicants
Open Until Filled

Date to be filled
09/10/2026

References

Number of References Required
3

Reference Cutoff Date

Instructions to Applicant