Vice President

Job Ref:
10015837

**Location**:
Kaiserslautern (Staff)-Germany

Category:
Faculty Services

Type:
Full time

**Vice President & Director, Europe**

**Office of Global Military Operations**

**Overseas, Regular, Full-time**

University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) seeks an experienced, transformational, servant leader as Vice President & Director, Europe (VP).

Seventy-five years ago UMGC pioneered new learning experiences for the nation in sending faculty members overseas to Europe to provide face-to-face learning experiences to servicemembers. In 1993, UMGC pioneered new online learning experiences to its students around the globe. Now, we seek a new leader in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa to help design and then lead the next generation learning ecosystem for all of the populations we serve.

**Based in Kaiserslautern, Germany**, and with operations in North Africa and the Middle East, the VP will report directly to the Senior Vice President, Global Military Operations and represent both the Senior Vice President and the University President in the region. The VP will partner closely with Stateside and Overseas colleagues to leverage data, learning science, and technologies to lead the change mindset that drives innovation and executes next-level vision, thinking, and student learning experiences. As learners move around the globe, the VP will work with global leadership to ensure a seamless high-quality student experience.

With a bias for getting things done, the VP will be laser-focused on every element of all UMGC learning experiences—face-to-face, hybrid, online—to support student success and persistence, focusing particularly on immediate awareness and real-time interventions for struggling students through driving more cohesive practices around the globe. The VP will honor the tradition in Europe of an in-person classroom environment while building towards the increasing demand for more online and hybrid student experiences. A spirit of collegiality, camaraderie, and collaboration is also of significant importance in this highly-visible position.

This VP Europe will lead teams in creating exceptional learning experiences on all modalities for a global student population, and be accountable for the following operational scope of responsibility:

- Creating proactive interventions based upon data and digital platforms to help students succeed and have a consistent UMGC experience wherever they are, as they travel and transfer, around the globe
- Leveraging best practices from our global communities of practice in recruiting, marketing, admissions, advising and academics and localizing the global resources to provide best-in-class service in all areas.
- Leveraging decision-based data to identify and engage at-risk students in real time
- Continuing to grow brand awareness and enrollment in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
- Creating a working environment and team structure that further prioritizes exceptional learning experiences in the higher education space
- Offering tailored, workforce-relevant learning experiences and products (including prior learning assessment credits) that are accessible and deliver proven results
- Fostering an agile, efficient, data-driven operation that responds swiftly to market trends and constantly seeks to evolve based on new opportunities and technologies
- Innovating and evolving in ways that “future-proofs” our learner experiences and recruitment practices as much as possible against military events, natural disasters and other global uncertainties
- Inspiring and developing leaders and teams to exceed student expectations
- Reflecting and modeling the core values of UMGC
- Performing other job-related duties as assigned

**Required education & experience**:An earned Master's degree from an accredited institution of higher learning; at least ten years in transformational and operational leadership role(s), especially in reframing organizations; experience leading a large, culturally diverse, geographically dispersed workforce across multiple time zones; proven track record of achievement in change management within highly-matrixed organizations and dynamic and rapidly evolving industries; success with a servant leadership style (vs. a command and control style); leveraging data and metrics to create roles and responsibilities that drive timely decision making; managing and executing compliant Federal contracts; expertise building strategic relationships within and outside of organizations; and the ability to pass a U.S. background check.

**The University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination. UMGC is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, reli