UNT System Or UNTS) Seeks Applications and Nominations for the Position of Vice Chancellor for Facilities

University of North Texas System Vice Chancellor for Facilities

The University of North Texas System (UNT System or UNTS) seeks applications and nominations for the position of Vice Chancellor for Facilities.

University of North Texas System The three independent universities of the UNT System have combined enrollment of nearly 44,000 students across five major teaching locations, including each main campus, as well as Frisco and downtown Dallas. The UNT System also provides high-quality, innovative, and affordable legal education in Dallas at the UNT Dallas College of Law. The UNT System Administration is based in downtown Dallas and collectively the UNT System has a $1.2 billion annual consolidated budget, employs roughly 10,000 people at its various locations within the robust North Texas Region and boosts the Texas economy by nearly $5.2 billion each year.

The University of North Texas System’s institutions include:

• University of North Texas – Established in 1890, University of North Texas (UNT), is one of the nation's largest universities with enrollment exceeding 38,000. UNT offers 103 bachelor's, 86 master's and 38 doctoral degree programs. Led by President Neal J. Smatresk, UNT is ranked among the 115 top-tier research universities — 81 of which are public universities — in the latest Carnegie Classification list. The university has been named one of America’s 100 Best College Buys for 22 consecutive years, a ranking based on having a high-achieving freshman class and affordable tuition. The Princeton Review continually names UNT as a Best in the West school and Forbes has listed UNT as an America's Top College for nine consecutive years. UNT has 15 programs ranked in the Top 100 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

The class of 2021 is one of the largest freshman classes at UNT and part of a bright student body that includes 26 National Merit Finalists this fall, 140 Terry Scholars and 1,800 Honors College students. As it grows, UNT’s student body remains diverse, representing the community that it serves, with a growing population of minority students at 23% Hispanic students and 14% African American students.

• University of North Texas Health Science Center – With an enrollment of 2,270, University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNT Health Science Center or UNTHSC) is one of the nation’s premier graduate academic medical centers and is composed of five schools that specialize in patient-centered education, research and health care: the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the School of Public Health, the School of Health Professions and the UNT System College of Pharmacy. In 2015, UNTHSC announced a unique public/private partnership with TCU to create a new MD school in Fort Worth. The school, planning to accept its first class in 2019, will be among the leading institutions in the nation in providing a team-oriented educational approach that benefits patients and shapes the future practice and business of medicine.

UNTHSC’s dedication to primary care has received national recognition for the 15th consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of medical schools. Among the magazine’s ranked programs, UNTHSC’s Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) is first in Texas and second nationally in the percentage of graduates entering primary care fields. Led by President Michael Williams, a UNTHSC alum and former UNT System Regent, the university invests $44.4 million in annual research expenditures – a figure that has nearly doubled since 2006.

• University of North Texas at Dallas – University of North Texas at Dallas (UNT Dallas) was established in 2010 and received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOS) in 2013. Led by President Bob Mong, the university has a diverse student population (46% Hispanic, 33% African- American, and 16% white) including first time freshmen, transfer students, veterans and graduate students. As the only public, doctoral granting comprehensive university in the City of Dallas – the hub of the State’s most densely populated region – UNT Dallas is critical to achieving the State’s 60X30 Texas Plan. The University offers bachelors, masters and a juris doctor degree.

UNT Dallas announced record enrollment in Fall 2017 of more than 3,500 students. The enrollment increase went from 3,030 last fall to 3,509 this fall, a 15.8 percent change. Enrollment has increased since its inception and is projected at 5,000 students by Fall 2020.

In 2016, a new DART light rail station adjacent to campus opened – linking the university with direct access to the downtown corridor and beyond, and in 2017, UNT Dallas opened its first residence hall

Enrollment numbers include the UNT Dallas College of Law. The College of Law is dedicated to providing affordable access to education with an annual tuition that is significantly lower than all other law schools, public or private, in Texas.

Role of UNT System Administration The UNT System Administration, founded in 1999, provides governance and service to UNT System component institutions in the areas of law, finance, audit, academic affairs and student success, facilities and construction, and governmental relations. Chancellor Lesa Roe leads the UNT System.

Like its counterpart central administrative offices across Texas, the UNT System:

• Provides executive leadership; • Represents the UNT System and its component institutors in all legal matters; • Leads the development of educational mission, policy, and programs and facilitates and coordinates new initiatives and academic and student affairs planning and implementation; • Oversees system-wide financial planning and analysis, including coordination of the annual institution budgets within the UNT System; • Supervises compliance with federal, state, and local laws and with Board of Regents policies;

• Provides a full range of professional design, development and management support for facilities planning and construction; • Establishes state and federal legislative and policy priorities for the System in collaboration with the Board of Regents institutional leadership and engages constituencies and stakeholders at all levels of government on issues impacting higher education; • Coordinates relationships with the region’s communities and organizations and other university systems.

In addition to providing these core services, the UNT System Administration has worked for the past several years, under the direction of the Board of Regents, to centralize additional key administrative services in order to increase efficiency and facilitate system-wide cost savings. Centralization of services including Information Technology (IT), Human Resources (HR) and many business and financial services provides cost and operational efficiency opportunities, while also allowing the UNT System component institutions to concentrate on carrying out their respective missions.

Position Summary Reporting directly to the Chancellor of the UNT System, the Vice Chancellor for Facilities is responsible for guiding the UNT System’s facilities, campus master planning, and major construction activities. The Vice Chancellor leads an office committed to delivering outstanding sustainable and enduring projects that maximize value while supporting the mission of each of the UNT System’s campuses.

With a current staff of approximately 20 professionals, the Vice Chancellor for Facilities will oversee an office that provides master planning, design and construction management support, sustainability expertise, innovative partnering expertise, and other facilities related expertise to the campuses. In addition, the Vice Chancellor for Facilities will be responsible for representing the System Administration before the Board of Regents and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in all matters related to facility projects. While maintaining a core office in System Administration, the Vice Chancellor for Facilities will work closely with the campuses creating a borderless team where expertise is utilized across campuses, especially for major renovation and construction.

Key responsibilities of the Vice Chancellor for Facilities include: • Developing and directing system-wide facilities planning and major construction programs; working closely with the leadership of UNT System universities to meet needs; • Collaborating and coordinating with UNT System campus leaders to meet space planning needs; • Working closely with UNT System campus leaders to develop long-term capital plans; • Serving as a collaborative team player with the Chief Financial Officer, the CIO and the General Counsel, Vice Chancellor for Government Relations, and University Presidents and Facility Managers; • Working across campuses to optimize facilities management support and look for efficiencies across the System; • Developing awareness of state-of-the-art approaches, including public/private partnerships, in order to meet university future facility needs. • Representing the UNT System on all matters affecting construction and planning;

• Developing strong working relationships with community leaders, UNT System administrators, and other higher education agencies; • Hiring, training, monitoring, and conducting scheduled evaluations of employees supervised; • Ensuring that monitoring systems are in place to track compliance with all federal and state laws and regulations; • Adhering to and fostering high standards of ethical conduct, compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, and appropriate financial oversight and controls; • Observing safety, security and confidentiality precautions appropriate to work performed; • Promoting diversity within the UNT System and supports UNT System programs designed to create a welcoming environment for everyone; • Performing other duties as assigned by the Chancellor.

Opportunities and Challenges Specific areas where the next Vice Chancellor for Facilities will be able to make a significant impact include:

• System-wide Leadership – The Vice Chancellor for Facilities will work in partnership with the senior administrators at each campus in addressing the space and facilities needs of the University of North Texas. The Vice Chancellor will provide vision and leadership in capital budget and development, campus planning and landscape architecture, environment, health and safety, physical plant, space management, continuity of operations, deferred maintenance, and the associated business and support services. This individual will foster an environment that promotes open communication and collaboration across the UNT System’s campuses in addressing its planning, maintenance, and construction needs. Specifically, the Vice Chancellor will take a visible and highly interactive role in working closely with campus administrators to understand their needs and advocating on their behalf to System administrators and the Board. Equally important, the Vice Chancellor will communicate and monitor Board and System policies and priorities to the appropriate campus administrators.

• Leading the Evolution of the Division of Facilities –The Vice Chancellor for Facilities will work closely with System and campus administrators in to create a borderless team where expertise is shared and utilized across campuses, especially for major renovation and construction. In doing so, the Vice Chancellor will play a central role in working with senior administrators across the UNT System to identify the functions, duties, and expertise that should be provided by the System Office and campuses to ensure the efficient use of resources and personnel. A careful examination of the size, organizational structure, and expertise of the Division, as well as the Campuses, will be necessary in order to ensure that the entire structure is nimble, appropriately sized, and operating as a cohesive team.

• Re-defining Business Practices and Procedures – Over the last half-dozen years, the UNT System has aggressively expanded its physical footprint engaging in more than $300 million in new construction. With this expansion and major construction processes significantly slowing, the next Vice Chancellor will be in a position to redefine the role of the System Office in partnering with UNT campuses to address their facility needs. In serving as the focal point of contact amongst these entities, the new Vice Chancellor will review existing policies, practices, and procedures across the System to identify existing areas of excellence, opportunities for improvement and efficiency in the use of

resources, and innovative approaches to solving problems. Through their efforts, the Vice Chancellor will streamline System and campus processes; establish uniformity, clear metrics, and expectations; and further bolster an environment dedicated to accountability and success.

• Addressing Deferred Maintenance Needs – Although the UNT System has benefitted from new construction and the renovation of existing buildings, there is an increasing need to identify and prioritize deferred maintenance issues impacting each campus and the System Office. The Vice Chancellor for Facilities will be responsible for engaging the leadership at each campus in assessing and prioritizing their respective deferred maintenance needs. Using this information, the Vice Chancellor will take a lead role in creating a System-wide deferred maintenance plan and will work with the UNT System Administration and the Board of Regents for completing these projects in order of priority.

• Increasing Engagement and Satisfaction – In partnering with the Chancellor and her leadership team in the continued evolution of the UNT System Office, the Vice Chancellor for Facilities will strive to foster an environment that is highly focused on customer engagement, partnership, and satisfaction. In re-defining the relationships between the Division of Facilities and the UNT Campuses, the next Vice Chancellor will champion relationships based on increased visibility, transparency, and accessibility aimed at achieving high priority UNT System and campus goals.

• Long-Term Planning – In their role, the Vice Chancellor will be responsible for developing a comprehensive plan for addressing the long-term facilities and infrastructure needs of the UNT System and its component institutions. In managing the System’s complex infrastructure, this individual will be responsible for not only new construction, but deferred maintenance and safety needs across all UNT System sites. In serving as the UNT System’s liaison with campus, government, private sector, and community stakeholders, the Vice Chancellor for Facilities will play a key role in working with the Chancellor and the Vice Chancellor for Government Relations navigating the political landscape related to addressing System and campus planning and facilities needs.

• Identifying and Implementing Creative Approaches to Addressing Facilities Needs – The UNT System’s next Vice Chancellor will provide advice and counsel to senior campus leadership in connection with the development of private/public partnerships and other creative strategies for meeting the rapidly changing facilities and space needs of the UNT System. The new Vice Chancellor will be responsible for establishing the protocol for evaluating new partnerships and the specific role the individual campus, the UNT System, and the external entity will each play while monitoring their progress in the collaboration.

Qualities and Characteristics The UNT System’s next Vice Chancellor for Facilities will exhibit: • The ability to think creatively and innovate while building consensus and collaborating with others; • Leadership, supervision and management skills, including the ability to coach, mentor, and support staff in creating a positive, engaging and inclusive workplace;

• The ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships, including the ability to negotiate and solve problems with multiple constituencies and stakeholder groups with diverse priorities; • A high motivation with a strong interest in serving the needs of the UNT System, its institutions, and stakeholders; • A broad knowledge of leadership/supervisory/management theory and practice; • Demonstrated commitment to resource stewardship from the perspectives of both economics and sustainability; • Demonstrated achievement of multicultural goals, including recruitment and retention of diverse staff; • The ability to work in a fast-paced setting of a major public university; • The ability to include, engage, and energize others, and to thrive in a collegial environment; • Honesty and integrity; • A customer-service orientation; • The ability to respond to daily challenges while staying focused on long-term goals.

Qualifications The ideal candidate will possess: • An advanced degree from an accredited university or equivalent years of experience; • A minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible administrative experience in a large, complex organization; • A proven career record of progressively increasing responsibility in complex public or private organizations; • Extensive knowledge of capital planning, financial planning, land-use planning, and master planning; • Experience in building operations and sustainability; • Excellent interpersonal and team-building abilities, outstanding oral and written communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple complex projects; • Problem solving skills to reach efficient and effective solutions in a collaborative manner; • The ability to lead major activities in a collaborative manner with a wide range of internal and external constituencies; • The ability to represent the UNT System to the state legislature and other policymaking agencies; and • A combination of public and private sector experience is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications • Experience in construction and development leadership.

Application and Nomination Process The Search Committee will begin reviewing applications immediately and will continue to accept applications and nominations until the position is filled. Applicants must submit a current resume and/or curriculum vitae, along with a letter of interest describing relevant experience and interest in the position. Submission of materials via e-mail is strongly encouraged. Nomination letters should include the name, position, address and telephone number of the nominee. All nominations and applications will be handled in confidence.

Applications and letters of nomination should be submitted to:

Alberto Pimentel, Managing Partner Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates 6512 Painter Avenue Whittier, CA 90601 Email: [email protected] Refer to code “UNTS-VCFacilities” in subject line

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