Search for the Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences

UC San Diego is pleased to invite nominations and applications for the position of Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences. We have enlisted the assistance of international leadership advisory firm Spencer Stuart (https://www.spencerstuart.com/) to help us manage the search process. Kit Pogliano, Dean of Biological Sciences, has agreed to chair the Search Advisory Committee, whose members are listed below.

Members of the Search Advisory Committee for the Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences:

Kit Pogliano, Dean, School of Biological Sciences, Committee Chair
Bruce Appelgate, Associate Director, Ship Operations & Marine Technical Support
Andrew Barton, Associate Professor, SIO and Ecology, Behavior and Evolution
Adrian Borsa, Professor, Geophysics, IGPP
Patrick Callaghan, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences, Finance & Operations
William Gerwick, Professor, Marine Biology, SIO and SSPPS
Paul Jensen, Professor, Marine Biology
Drew Lucas, Associate Professor, Marine Physical Laboratory, SIO and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, JSOE
Corinne Peek-Asa, Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
Kimberly Prather, Professor, SIO and Chemistry and Biochemistry; Chair, Atmospheric Chemistry
Isabel Riviera-Collazo, Associate Professor, Anthropology and SIO; Director, Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology
Greg Rouse, Professor, Marine Biology
Stuart Sandin, Professor, Marine Biology; Director, Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation
Amina Schartup, Associate Professor, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry

The Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences (VCMS) reports to the Chancellor and also serves as the Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Dean of the School of Marine Sciences. The VCMS will lead the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) in articulating a clear scientific vision, provide direction for its academic programs, expand revenue sources, and optimize the administrative organization. The Vice Chancellor represents and provides leadership nationally and internationally in scientific matters related to the ongoing research efforts of SIO scientists and in relations with Federal, State and local governmental entities and private organizations and individuals.

We are seeking an innovative leader who will promote Scripps' and the School of Marine Sciences’ scientific and educational mission. They should be an innovative leader with a demonstrated successful record in strategic planning, administration and fundraising. Effective communication and interpersonal skills are essential, together with an understanding of, and commitment to, academic shared governance.

Through a series of listening sessions with various constituencies on campus, the search firm will develop a comprehensive position profile that includes challenges and opportunities for the next Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences. The Search Advisory Committee will begin reviewing candidates soon after the position profile is developed and will continue until the position is filled.

Direct nominations should be emailed to UCSDVCMS@spencerstuart.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
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor’s Endowed Chair

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