Strategic Planning Implementation and Culture Change, Office of the President

This Fellow will work in the Office of the President, planning and implementing the Courageous Strategic Transformation. The Fellow will also work on initiatives and strategies to help achieve University goals related to cultural change and improvement. The Fellow will work directly with the Vice President for Strategy and President’s Office.

This Fellow’s work will include:

• Working with University leaders on the Courageous Strategic Transformation.
• Planning and implementation of culture change planning and initiatives.
• Developing strategic partnerships with internal and external constituencies.
• Actively engaging with university stakeholders through focus groups, one-on-one conversations, surveys, and other engagements to help better understand the needs of faculty and researchers.
• Sharing what is learned from stakeholders with the Leadership Team to promote improvements that will help us better meet our stakeholders’ needs and have best practices with service delivery.
• Promoting initiatives and educating the campus community.

This Fellow should be a highly organized, excellent communicator with innovative ideas and a willingness to collaborate across campus.

Leadership skill goals and outcomes for this Fellow would include: managing a high-level, complex project; communicating with a variety of different audiences; consensus building, bringing a variety of ideas into a cogent, executable plan.

Internal Communications, University Communications

The University Communications division has been tasked with telling the university’s compelling story so that the profile of the institution is raised within the state and across the nation. In an effort to ensure that the university brand is bold, engaging and consistent with the mission of the institution, University Communications seeks a leadership Fellow to work directly with the Vice President for University Communications and leaders within the division to strategically advance our internal university communications channels and propose and develop new ways, avenues and platforms to promote our key messages to internal audiences.    

This Fellow’s work would include:

• Assisting department leaders in planning, developing and implementing a new internal communications strategy.
• Working closely with key stakeholders throughout the university to research our current internal communications efforts and gather data to inform new directions and platforms for advancing key institutional messages. 
• Researching best practices in internal communications via other universities and/or large complex organizations and sharing information with University Communications administrators to determine improvements that will help us better meet our internal communications needs

Leadership skill goals and outcomes for this Fellow would include: complete discretion, high-level of communications and writing skill; ability to partner and communicate with key stakeholders; managing projects; building consensus and adhering to deadlines; developing innovative solutions with an eye toward maintaining agreed-upon budget. 

Community Development, Engagement & Extension

To better bridge CSU faculty, Centers, and resources to CSU Extension agents in Colorado communities and to support community-driven problem solving, the office of the Vice President for Engagement & Extension seeks a leadership Fellow to work with the VP of Engagement and Extension and our innovative community development team to develop and implement strategies that effectively leverage campus resources to meet needs identified in communities. The Office of Engagement and Extension’s mission is to connect communities around shared solutions through education, research, and leadership.

This Fellow’s work would include:

• Co-Leading and collaborating to support the planning, development, and implementation of a faculty engagement strategy based on the results of CSU Extension’s statewide community needs assessment.
• Collaborating with a team to identify and implement effective ways to visualize data from the needs assessment that would maintain value for engaged faculty, Extension staff and community partners over a three- to five-year period.
• Facilitate and support the creation of community connections for collaborative community problem-solving.
• Identify and co-create important professional development for Extension staff and CSU faculty to support collaboration.
• Provide technical assistance to local Extension counties, with OEE’s Community Development team to support program planning after they receive their community needs assessment results.

Leadership skill goals and outcomes for this Fellow would include: design and initial implementation of a medium-term strategy for revitalizing faculty service in support of the land grant mission; working with stakeholders from different professional cultures to find common interests; experience supporting community-driven strategies to address complex adaptive challenges, facilitation and communication.

Office of the Vice President of Research, Strategic Transformation and Planning

As we enter a period of intense strategic transformation across our campus, the Office of the Vice President for Research has assessed key areas of investment in our office, including core research infrastructure, programs in support of graduate research, and interdisciplinary teaming investment programs.  These strategic planning efforts have been organized and executed by our Research Acceleration Office within the OVPR.  The OVPR seeks a leadership Fellow to work with the VP for Research and the OVPR Research Acceleration Office to help move our strategic planning forward towards action and execution and to help align our plans with the broader institutional strategic transformation process.

The Fellow’s work would involve collaboration with stakeholder groups to:

• Co-lead and support the planning, development, and implementation of a faculty and staff engagement strategy based on the results of OVPR strategic planning efforts;
• Identify and align resources with strategic planning in core research facilities, programs of research and scholarly excellence, and thematic interdisciplinary research and training programs;
• Assist with the development and implementation of a communication plan for OVPR strategic planning efforts, outcomes and synergies with the university-level strategic transformation process.
• Engage external stakeholders, including legislators, donors and corporate partners, to facilitate translation of the strategic plan elements into increased opportunities for external collaboration, partnership and extramural funding.

 Leadership skill goals and outcomes for this Fellow would include: managing numerous complex projects simultaneously; communicating strategically with a variety of different audiences; building consensus with diverse stakeholders; developing leadership products (communication plans, budget proposals).

Basic Needs/Food Insecurity, Student Affairs

The Basic Needs Presidential Fellow will lead data collection and assessment and outcome reporting on the impact that the University’s basic needs resources, primarily involving food and housing, have on student retention and graduation rates. This will also include conducting community needs assessments and research of best practices. The Fellow will report to the Vice President for Student Affairs, Dr. Blanche Hughes, and work closely with the Basic Needs Advisory Committee.

The Fellow’s work would include:

• Partnering with CSU Institutional Research, developing, implementing, managing and coordinating assessment efforts linking basic needs resources to student retention and graduation rates;
• Making recommendations informed by data analysis and best-practice research to enhance basic needs resources at CSU;
• Establishing collection methods of quantitative and qualitative data, analyzing and visualizing trends and patterns, producing high-impact reports, disseminating information to stakeholders;
• Serving CSU students, staff and faculty in a way that affirms dignity and strengthens the CSU community.

Leadership skill goals and outcomes for this Basic Needs Presidential Fellow would include: managing a high-level, data-driven project from inception to completion; communicating complex, data and research-informed information to a variety of different audiences; development of data-informed strategy for improving a specific area of university operations (student Basic Needs); significant experience in advancing the retention and support missions of the Division of Student Affairs, on behalf of all students and consistent with the CSU principles of Community.

Campus Engagement, Information Technology

To better serve the needs of campus and ensure alignment of services to the mission of the institution, the Division of Information Technology seeks a leadership Fellow to work directly with the CIO to develop and implement campus engagement strategies designed to engage faculty and researchers. 

This Fellow’s work would include:

• Leading the planning, development, and implementation of a new campus engagement strategy.
• Developing strategic partnerships with key governance groups, Colleges, and research centers.
• Actively engaging with university stakeholders through focus groups, one-on-one conversations, surveys, and other engagements to help better understand the needs of faculty and researchers.
• Sharing what is learned from stakeholders with the Leadership Team to promote improvements that will help us better meet our stakeholders’ needs and have best practices with service delivery.
• Promoting and educating the user community to broaden and reinforce understanding of the technology direction and initiatives and use of technology services.

Leadership skill goals and outcomes for this Fellow would include: managing a high-level project from inception to completion; communicating with a variety of different audiences; building consensus while also adhering to deadlines; developing creative solutions to problems within budget and time constraints.