SUBJECT:

Search for the Vice Chancellor - External Relations

A search is underway for the position of Vice Chancellor - External Relations. A search committee has been named (membership listed below) with Vice Chancellor Steve Relyea and Dean Paul Drake serving as the co-chairs for this important effort. Alberto Pimentel of A.T. Kearney has been retained as the executive search consultant to assist the committee in identifying candidates for the position.

The Vice Chancellor - External Relations is the senior advancement executive for UC San Diego with overall management responsibility for fund raising, university communications, and relations with alumni, governmental and community individuals and groups. The Vice Chancellor has an important fiduciary role in providing direction for a diverse, multifaceted fund-raising enterprise that raises approximately $135 million annually. The new Vice Chancellor will have an extraordinary opportunity to elevate UC San Diego to the next level of fund raising, guiding the $1 billion capital campaign that will conclude in June 2007. Candidates must possess a substantial and progressive record of accomplishments in strategy, management and business enterprise with particular emphasis on fund raising from individual, private sector and foundation sources. The position description is posted on the Job Bulletin web site:

http://joblink.ucsd.edu/bulletin/job.html?cat=executive&job_id=36870

The Search Committee will begin reviewing nominations and applications in September 2005 and continue until the position is filled. On behalf of the search committee, I invite you to submit nominations of interested and qualified individuals in confidence to Vice Chancellor Steve Relyea (srelyea@ucsd.edu) or Dean Paul Drake (pdrake@ucsd.edu).

Marye Anne Fox Chancellor

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SEARCH COMMITTEE FOR VICE CHANCELLOR - EXTERNAL RELATIONS

Dean Paul Drake (Division of Social Sciences), Co-Chair

Vice Chancellor Steve Relyea (Business Affairs), Co-Chair

Provost Steven Adler (Warren College and Theatre and Dance)

Andrea Buteau (President, UCSD Student Foundation)

Professor Zeinabu Davis (Communication)

Lourdes "Lou" Felix (Chicano/Latino Staff Association)

Jeffrey Graham (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

Bonnie Horstmann (Academic Affairs)

Chair Kenneth Kaushansky (Department of Medicine)

Director Ramesh Rao (CalIT2 and ECE)

Collette Rudd (Alumni Association)

Marlene Shaver (External Relations)

Dean Robert Sullivan (Rady School of Management)

Ron Taylor (Chair, UCSD Foundation)

Dean Mark Thiemens (Division of Physical Sciences)

Vice Chancellor Joseph Watson (Student Affairs)

Professor Martin Yanofsky (Division of Biological Sciences)