Associate Vice President-Planning Design & Construction

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

The Associate Vice President (AVP) for Planning, Design & Construction (PDC) provides executive leadership and strategic oversight for campus planning, capital project development, architectural and engineering design, construction delivery, and major renewal and replacement (MRR) investments on behalf of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), the University System of Georgia, and the Board of Regents. The AVP ensures that Georgia Tech's built and landscaped environments advance the Institutes academic, research, innovation, student life, and community missions while maintaining fiscal stewardship, regulatory compliance, space efficiency, and design excellence. The AVP leads a multidisciplinary organization responsible for translating institutional priorities, long-range plans, and space governance decisions into high-quality, timely, and cost-effective capital and renewal outcomes across a complex, urban research campus. This role serves as a senior advisor to executive leadership on physical development strategy, capital investment, space utilization, and project delivery governance. This position will interact on a regular basis with: Directors, Sr. Managers Executive leadership. This position will typically advise and counsel: Exec Leadership. This position will supervise: Assigned Staff.

Job Duty 1 - Provide executive leadership for all phases of capital project planning, design, procurement, construction, and closeout, ensuring projects are delivered on schedule, within approved budgets, and in compliance with institutional standards, codes, and regulations; and oversee selection, contracting, and performance management of architects, engineers, landscape architects, construction managers, contractors, and consultants.
Job Duty 2 - Lead long range campus and physical planning efforts, including development and updates to the Campus Master Plan, land use plans, and related planning frameworks, ensuring alignment with Georgia Tech's strategic, academic, research, innovation, and operational priorities, and partnering with executive leadership, colleges, and administrative units to define project scope, priorities, phasing, and delivery strategies.
Job Duty 3 - Oversee capital planning and forecasting activities, including multi year capital plans, project budgets, cost estimates, schedules, and capital program coordination with Institute financial planning and budgeting processes, ensuring strategic alignment and responsible fiscal stewardship.
Job Duty 4 - Provide executive oversight of the Major Renewal and Replacement (MRR) program, ensuring strategic prioritization, funding alignment, and effective delivery of deferred maintenance, infrastructure renewal, and asset reinvestment initiatives across the campus.
Job Duty 5 - Establish and maintain project governance structures, approval pathways, policies, delivery standards, and risk management frameworks, ensuring consistency, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
across capital, MRR, and project delivery processes, including opportunities to enhance space governance, project prioritization, and use
of data and technology.
Job Duty 6 - Oversee Institute space utilization planning and governance, including development and implementation of space management policies,
utilization standards, and decision frameworks, and collaborate with academic leadership, operations partners, and planning teams to assess needs, resolve competing priorities, and support data informed allocation and optimization decisions.
Job Duty 7 - Provide executive leadership for architectural, engineering, and landscape design functions, ensuring the integration of buildings, landscapes, and public spaces that advance campus character, sustainability, resilience, accessibility, and long-term stewardship, and champion design excellence and life cycle cost considerations across all projects.
Job Duty 8 - Serve as a senior advisor and liaison to Institute leadership, governing boards, regulatory agencies, municipalities, community stakeholders, faculty, deans, administrators, and students, preparing and presenting materials related to capital projects, space utilization, and campus
development strategies, while building and maintaining strong relationships to support successful project outcomes
Job Duty 9 - Lead, mentor, and develop a diverse team of planning, space management, design, landscape, project management, and construction
professionals, establishing clear performance expectations, promoting professional growth, fostering a collaborative and service-oriented culture, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations and USG policies, and performing other duties as assigned in support of Georgia Techs mission and strategic objectives.

Job Duty 10 - Perform other duties as assigned

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Other Required Qualifications
Direct background in planning, design, and construction

Required Experience
12+ years of relevant experience; 7+ years of supervisory knowledge

Additional Preferred Qualifications
Ability to communicate across executive, staff, and stakeholder levels.
Strong partnership building ability.
Higher education experience

Preferred Educational Qualifications
Master's Degree in a related discipline

Preferred Experience
3 years at the senior-level

Proposed Salary: $175,823.00 - $230,000.00 Commensurate with education and experience.

ABILITIES
Ability to align physical development, space utilization, and asset renewal with institutional strategy
Ability to manage multiple, high-profile initiatives simultaneously
Ability to communicate complex technical and financial information clearly to diverse audiences
Ability to lead through influence in a matrixed, collaborative environment
Significant progressive leadership experience in planning, design, construction, and facilities renewal, including demonstrated responsibility for large, multi-project capital and MRR portfolios.

KNOWLEDGE
Capital planning, campus master planning, space utilization, and project delivery best practices
Architectural, engineering, construction, and landscape architecture standards and methodologies
Major renewal and replacement (MRR) planning and asset stewardship principles
Public-sector procurement, contracting, and regulatory compliance
Financial management, budgeting, and risk management for capital programs

SKILLS
Executive leadership and organizational development
Strategic planning, prioritization, and decision-making
Budget, schedule, and portfolio management for complex capital and renewal programs
Stakeholder engagement and executive-level communication

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

This is a supervisory position.
This position does not have any financial responsibilities.
This position will not be required to drive.
This role is considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position will not travel
This position does not require security clearance.

Successful candidate must be able to pass a position of trust + credit+ education background check. Please visit http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening