Permanent Full-Time Excluded Position
8:30am to 4:30pm / Monday to Friday
Grade 19 ($182,817 to $243,756 per annum)
ABOUT EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART + DESIGN
Situated on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories in Vancouver, Canada, Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU) is where creativity meets practice. Ranked among the world’s top 30 universities for art and design (QS 2024), ECU is recognized globally for its hands-on, practice-based teaching and learning environment that equips students to experiment, take risks and drive innovation.
Since 1925, ECU has championed bold ideas and emerging talent through a close-knit, studio-intensive setting that connects students with award-winning faculty, cutting-edge facilities, and real-world opportunities. Today, ECU serves more than 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students, along with thousands more through continuing studies, contributing to Canada’s cultural and creative sectors and shaping the future of art, media, design and research.
Having marked our centennial in 2025, ECU continues to ask what art and design can make possible.100 years in the making, we are shaping what comes next.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Vice-President, Finance + Administration is a member of the University’s Senior Executive Team and is responsible for providing strategic financial leadership and direction to the organization, ensuring excellence in financial and strategic capital planning and master planning, oversight, and stewardship for all aspects of the University’s financial operational services and facilities. The Vice-President, Finance + Administration will support and collaborate with the VP Academic + Provost to achieve the academic mission of Emily Carr University. This will include the development and implementation of fiscal policies, that support the goal of operational effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability, while simultaneously ensuring investment in the educational environment. Furthermore, the Vice-President, Finance + Administration is responsible for the strategic oversight of all university facilities and is responsible for the executive oversight of any P3 partnerships. This includes responsibilities concerning the safety of all campuses and the community members that access the facilities.
Emily Carr University has a deep commitment to a culture of inclusion. Acknowledging the University’s diverse population and ensuring that every member of an inclusive campus is a valued contributor is a foundational pillar of the University’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). This role will support the University’s commitment to EDI and be part of the University’s commitment to building a culture of inclusion which is key to achieving academic excellence and student success
The Vice-President, Finance and Administration will place a strong emphasis on planning, innovation, accountability, teamwork, transparency, and leadership.
BENEFITS OF JOINING THE EMILY CARR COMMUNITY
- Enrollment in a comprehensive benefits package, including Dental Coverage, Extended Health, Disability Coverage and Life Insurance.
- Membership in the College Pension Plan.
- Competitive vacation and Professional Development benefits
TYPICAL DUTIES INCLUDE:
- Work as part of the executive leadership team in leading the University through a period of financial renewal and long-term planning as a response to the financial pressures associated with delivering an art and design curriculum.
- Build, support, and maintain internal and external partnerships that promote the idea of a university that is creative, responsive and sustainable, while exploring resource, and revue opportunities.
- Advance the strategic priorities with the development and implementation of innovative thinking, creative problem solving, and sustainability.
- With the President + Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President, Academic + Provost, prioritize strategic management of risk and financial management to protect the short and long-term sustainability of the University.
- Ensures that the University operates under the provisions of the University Act and works directly with the Ministry and relevant government agencies, cultivating collaborative relationships and ensuring compliance with all current mandates, and directives.
- Serves as the Principal Signing Officer for the University, ensuring that parameters and safeguards are provided for major institutional contracts and expenditures.
- Operate in an open, respectful, and collaborative way with commitment to accountability and transparency to the President + Vice-Chancellor and University community.
- Lead the transformation of the operating model of the University through innovation, new revenue generation opportunities, expense reduction, and leveraging technology and productivity to ensure leading operational effectiveness and efficiency. This will require change management to support the co-ordination of changes across people, processes, and technology.
- Works collaboratively with the President + Vice-Chancellor and the Executive Team in developing the operating budget.
- Work to ensure effective bicameral governance at the university by supporting the Audit + Finance Committee (AFC), as a standing committee of the Board of Governors, and the Senate Budget Committee, a subcommittee of Senate.
- Work with the Advancement Leadership to be an effective partner in managing philanthropic support received through donor activities and government funding opportunities across all three levels of government that support new capital investment.
- Build a professional and highly skilled internal team that prioritizes and drives forward innovations in the capital planning, finances, and University operations.
- Work with Faculty and Staff to develop stronger financial literacy across the organization and understand how initiatives impact the bottom line.
- Prioritize the building of an inclusive, diverse and healthy campus.
- Work collaboratively with President and other campus stakeholders to build a risk management strategy.
- Work closely with the General Manager, P3 Facility Operations to steward valuable campus physical resources such that they aid in the fulfilment of the University’s mission and support the attainment of the University’s goals.
- Work with the senior leadership team in identifying goals for the next five years that are aligned with and support the goals of the University’s Strategic Plans.
- Foster a culture of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) by remaining current in EDI trends that impact field of work and make recommendations to the President + Vice-Chancellor and Executive for improvements in support of the ECU community, and the strategic goals of the University.
- Perform other related duties as required.
