Search for the Vice Chancellor for Advancement

UC San Diego is pleased to invite nominations and applications for the position of Vice Chancellor for Advancement. We have enlisted the assistance of a leading executive search firm (Isaacson, Miller) to help us manage the search process. Carol Chang, Emerita Past Chair of the UC San Diego Foundation Board of Trustees, has agreed to chair the Search Advisory Committee, whose members are listed below.

Members of the Search Advisory Committee for the Vice Chancellor for Advancement:

Carol Chang, Emerita Chair of the UC San Diego Foundation Board of Trustees (Chair)
On Amir, Chair, Life Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Professor, Marketing, Associate Dean
Kim Phillips Boehm ‘82, President, UC San Diego Alumni Board of Directors
Julie Bronstein, Executive Director of Development, Community Fundraising, Health Sciences Advancement
Anne Buckley, Chief Communications and Marketing Officer
Joe Califano, MD, Physician-in-Chief, Moores Cancer Center; Director, Head and Neck Cancer Center; Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences
Lakshmi Chilukuri, Provost, Sixth College
Amelia Cortina, Executive Director, Leadership Strategy and Engagement
Amanda Datnow, Professor, Department of Education Studies; Associate Dean, Division of Social Sciences
Cristina Della Coletta, Dean, Arts & Humanities
Helen Fricker, Professor, Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Praditpa Ghosh, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Director, Center for Network Medicine; Executive Director, HUMANOID™ Center of Research Excellence
Rajesh Gupta, Director, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute; Professor and Chair, Embedded Microsystems in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Andrew McCulloch, Professor, Bioengineering and Medicine; Chair, Engineering and Medicine
Kim Prather, Chair, Atmospheric Chemistry Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Steve Schick, Professor, Reed Family Presidential Chair
Allison Schneider, Deputy Director, Advancement Operations and Campaign
Jeff Silberman, Chair, UC San Diego Foundation
Zach Smith, MBA '18, Executive Director of Development, Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering
Jennie Van Meter ‘90, Senior Director, Alumni Engagement Strategy

The VCA reports directly to the Chancellor and serves as the Executive Vice President of the UC San Diego Foundation. The VCA works closely and regularly with all academic vice chancellors: Executive Vice Chancellor - Academic Affairs, Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences, and the Chief Executive Officer for UC San Diego Health as well as all Vice Chancellors. The VCA serves on the Chancellor’s Cabinet, advises the Chancellor, EVC, VCHS, VCMS, and CEO on advancement/development and alumni matters for faculty and students, fundraising-related budget priorities and resource allocations; advocates for equity, diversity and inclusion within Advancement and its six branches at UC San Diego.

The VCA has overall managerial responsibility for UC San Diego's development and alumni engagement enterprise. The VCA manages the overall fundraising administration and initiatives; coordinates and administers policies, procedures, and activities which enhance and further develop engagement initiatives on the campus; and oversees six branches of advancement/development:

Advancement Operations and Campaign
Advancement Services
Alumni, Annual Giving and Pipeline Development
Health Sciences Advancement
Leadership Strategy and Engagement
University Development

The VCA fosters interaction with alumni, donors, UC San Diego community members, state, and private agencies and with foundations and industry to promote campus fundraising opportunities and initiatives; coordinates campus policies and practices related to university interaction with industry; creates new opportunities for enhancing fundraising activities and provides leadership and direction for all university fundraising campaigns and transformational initiatives.

Through a series of listening sessions with various constituencies on campus to be held beginning in August, the search firm will develop a comprehensive position profile that includes challenges and opportunities for the next VCA. The Search Advisory Committee will begin reviewing candidates soon after the position profile is developed and will continue until the position is filled.

Direct inquiries and nominations should be emailed to Rachel Ellenport, Partner at Isaacson, Miller at UCSDVCAdvancement@imsearch.com. You need not contact the nominee to ascertain if they are willing to be considered as a candidate. All nominees will be contacted in confidence by the search firm, to discuss their willingness to have their names put forward to the search advisory committee.

Pradeep K. Khosla
Chancellor