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UAA Executive Director, Shared Services Page 2 Profile of the Institution and Position The University of Alaska Anchorage invites applications and nominations for the position of Executive Director of Shared Services. Reporting directly to Vice Chancellor of Administration, the new Executive Director is expected to join in the fall of 2021. Surrounded by natural beauty in an urban environment, the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) offers a gateway to innovative thinking, learning and exploration. With a total student population of approximately 15,000, UAA is the largest of Alaska’s three public post-secondary institutions in the University of Alaska system. While the main campus is in Anchorage, UAA includes community campuses in Homer, Kodiak, Palmer, Soldotna, and Valdez, as well as Middle Colleges for high school students in Anchorage, Palmer and Soldotna. UAA is a comprehensive university whose core missions are excellence, student success, access, and workforce development. UAA offers programs leading to the associate, baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees, as well as vocational and professional certificates. UAA students experience a hands- on education, in and out of the classroom, with unique opportunities in academics, research and leadership, both locally and globally. UAA’s students and faculty come from diverse backgrounds, yet the university community is firmly rooted in Alaska. Together, the community celebrates the cultural richness of its Southcentral Alaska location, the ancestral homelands of the Dena’ina Athabascan, Ahtna Athabascan, Alutiiq/Sugpiaq, and Eyak peoples. The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) transforms lives through teaching, research, community engagement and creative expression in a diverse and inclusive environment. Serving students, the state and the communities of Southcentral Alaska, UAA is a comprehensive, open access, public university established on the ancestral lands of the Dena’ina, Ahtna Dene, Alutiq/Sugpiag, Chugachmiut and Evak peoples. Former Alaska Governor Sean Parnell has been selected to serve as the next chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage. Mr. Parnell succeeds UAA Interim Chancellor Bruce Schultz and will assume his new position on June 12, 2021. Currently, Mr. Parnell is an attorney in the Anchorage office of Holland & Hart LLP, and has 25 years in the active practice of law. Mr. Parnell was elected to two terms in the Alaska House of Representatives, serving there from 1992 until 1996 when he was elected to the Alaska Senate (1996-2000). In 2006, he was elected Lieutenant Governor and served as Governor of Alaska from 2009 to 2014. UAA Executive Director, Shared Services Page 3 Profile of the Institution and Position Mr. Parnell earned a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1984 from Pacific Lutheran University and a J.D. (Juris Doctorate) degree in 1987 from the University of Puget Sound School of Law (now known as Seattle University School of Law). He is admitted to the bar in both Alaska and Washington, D.C. Dr. Denise Runge became the Provost in July 2020. She previously served as Dean of the Community & Technical College since 2016, following one year at the UAA Prince William Sound College (PWSC) as the associate director of academic affairs and associate professor of business and public. Prior to joining UAA, Dr. Runge served as associate dean of academics at Helena College, a two-year college in the Montana University System offering certificates and degrees in career and technical education, as well as general transfer degrees. Her background includes academic leadership experience as vice president of academic affairs at Oglethorpe University and dean of the College of Arts & Letters at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM). In addition, she taught at USM, as well as community colleges in Georgia and Alabama. Dr. Runge brings considerable experience in the areas of fiscal management, fundraising, community and industry partnership building and leading during organizational change. She holds a Ph.D. in political science with an emphasis in public policy and administration from the University of Alabama. Bill Jacob was appointed Interim Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services in June 2020. He provides strategic and operational leadership for UAA’s financial, capital, digital, and other business-related activities. Prior to joining UAA, Mr. Jacob served in executive leadership roles in the aerospace and energy (oil and gas) industries in Alaska, the lower 48 states, and globally. His extensive experience includes multiple chief information officer and information technology director roles where he led business-wide ERP transformation projects, global IT strategy, enterprise process improvement, and supply chain management improvements. He is the executive sponsor of the UAA Shared Services implementation effort and has led several corporate shared services initiatives. Mr. Jacob holds a Masters degree of International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. UAA Executive Director, Shared Services Page 4 Profile of the Institution and Position The UAA 2025 Strategic Plan provides a framework to define, communicate, and clarify expectations for UAA’s mission, vision, values and shared goals. It builds on UAA’s strengths and focuses attention and resources on delivering tangible value to stakeholders and creating areas of distinction. It clarifies UAA’s mission, sets an aspirational vision for the future, establishes the values that shape behaviors and decisions, and results in a set of goals and objectives that reflect UAA’s ambitions and priorities, focuses its investments, and guides continuous improvement efforts. The elements of this plan are cascaded throughout the academic and administrative units in Anchorage and UAA Community Campuses to align efforts and maximize the shared contribution to success. Established in 1917, The University of Alaska is a land-, sea- and space-grant system of higher education that serves more than 26,000 full-and part-time students. The UA system’s three universities— University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and University of Alaska Southeast—are separately accredited institutions with 13 community campuses and extended learning centers across the state. The University of Alaska Board of Regents is the governing board of the University of Alaska system. The Board consists of 11 members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Alaska Legislature. Members serve an eight-year term, with the exception of the student regent who is nominated from their campus and serves a two-year term. The Board was established through the Alaska Constitution and is responsible for University of Alaska policy and management through the University President. The University of Alaska’s System Governance Council provides a forum and mechanism whereby faculty, staff and students may present issues and positions for discussion throughout the university system; may seek mutual support, may speak with a common voice, and may act together on issues affecting the general welfare of the university system community as a whole. Council members are elected from the system-wide Faculty Alliance, Staff Alliance, and Coalition of Student Leaders which, in turn, are comprised of members of the Faculty Senate, Staff Council, and student government organizations from the three universities. (At UAA, the Union of Students is the recognized governing body for students.) The Alumni Associations from each campus also elect members to represent them on the System Governance Council. While the System Governance Council is a collaborative body examining and discussing issues of interest across the university system, faculty governance responsibility for curriculum, degree requirements, academic policy, etc. resides at UAA. UAA Executive Director, Shared Services Page 5 Profile of the Institution and Position UAA supports Alaska’s workforce development by educating traditional undergraduate students as well as a large number of working degree-seeking students, enrolling nearly 13,000 at the Anchorage campus and across the community campuses. About 60% of students are female and 40% male, and 91% of students are Alaska residents. Roughly 43% identify as a racial or ethnic minority. Half of UAA students are above age 25. * There is an opportunity to increase UAA’s number of students served from out of state. UAA is largely a commuter community, and approximately 80% of students work full or part time. UAA’s intercollegiate athletics program plays an integral role in engaging the community and state. UAA Athletics has routinely ranked in the top 10 percent nationally in the prestigious Learfield Director’s Cup and is headquartered in the Alaska Airlines Center, UAA’s on-campus 5,000-seat, state-of-the-art sports complex. In the last ten years, Seawolf Athletics has produced 224 All-Americans, 43 Conference Team Titles, 221 Individual Conference Champions, and 15 Individual National Championships. Students engage in over 100 clubs and organizations on campus including academic and social, as well as five Greek organizations. UAA boasts an amazing on-campus housing community that features a variety of housing and dining options. UAA is also home to a variety of engaging student-run organizations, such as Concert Board, KRUA 88.1 FM radio station, Seawolf Debate, The Northern Light newspaper,