The Associate Vice Chancellor (AVC) for Environmental Health and Public Safety serves as the chief safety and security officer for NC State University, and is responsible for providing strategic, collaborative and compliant leadership across environmental health services, public safety and transportation operations at NC State.Strategy and Leadership● Serves as one of the university’s leaders, providing vision and strategy in support of NC State’s mission and strategic plan, Wolfpack 2030: Powering the Extraordinary.● Reports to the Executive Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration and joins six other Associate Vice Chancellors in promoting the Principles of Work (employee engagement, customer service, responsible stewardship) throughout the Office of Finance and Administration, and NC State.● Advises university leadership, engaging routinely with the Chancellor, Provost, Cabinet, College Deans, NC State Board of Trustees and other senior university officials and their staff.● Serves on university task forces and committees, in support of strategic initiatives, governance and compliance matters and operational improvements/university effectiveness efforts.● Represents the university to external stakeholders including the UNC System, City of Raleigh, Wake County, state and federal entities, and professional organizations.Oversight of Environmental Health Services, Public Safety and Transportation Operations● Oversees six departments that comprise the EHPS division as described above, with responsibility for essential emergency planning and response, university safety and security including law enforcement, environmental health and safety, violence prevention and risk assessment, transit and parking, and insurance.● Responsible for ensuring NC State is a standard bearer in achieving industry best practices, and adheres to NC State, UNC System, state and federal regulations.Collaboration, Engagement and Compliance● Consults regularly with leaders at the university, municipal, regional, state and national levels, and is responsible for building collaborative, effective partnerships to ensure sound, coordinated and compliance focused operational procedures.● Responsible for the formulation of university-wide emergency plans, recovery and risk mitigation activities, the university’s Violence Prevention and Management Program and the university’s Crisis Communications Plan.● Serves on university-wide safety committees including the Emergency Management and Continuity Steering Committee, Campus Safety Committee, Behavior Assessment Team, Crisis Communications Team, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), Biosafety and Radiation Safety Committees.● Serves as the point of contact/liaison with select health and safety, and preparedness regulatory agencies.● Responsible for building and maintaining relationships with UNC system institutions, local law enforcement agencies, local emergency management, and the GoRaleigh and GoTriangle transit systems.Managerial and Supervisory Responsibilities● Oversees operations, services and employees across six EHPS departments as described above: Environmental Health and Safety, Emergency Preparedness and Strategic Initiatives, University Police, Risk Assessment, Security Applications and Technologies, and Transportation.● Directly supervises a staff of six departmental directors as described above, and the division’s business officer; and is responsible for all aspects of managing the division’s workforce.● Provides senior leadership oversight, career development and performance management to employees within the division, designed to support a highly productive and knowledgeable workforce focused on employee engagement, customer service and resource stewardship as defined by the Office of Finance and Administration’s Principles of Work.