Associate Vice President of Student Affairs, Student Support and Health Education

About Us

Are you ready to transform lives through academic excellence, innovative research, strong community partnerships and economic opportunity? Kennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country. With growing enrollment and global reach, we continue to expand our institutional influence and prominence beyond the state of Georgia. We offer more than 190 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to empower over 50,000 students to become thought leaders, lifelong learners, and informed global citizens. Our entrepreneurial spirit, high-impact research, and Division I athletics draw students from throughout the region and from more than 100 countries across the globe. Our university's vibrant culture, career opportunities, rich benefits, and values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability make us an employer of choice. We are part of the University System of Georgia. We are searching for talented people to join Kennesaw State University in our vision. Come Take Flight at KSU!

Location

(Primary Location for Job Responsibilities) Our Kennesaw campus is located at 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144.

Our Marietta campus is located at 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060.

Job Summary

The Associate Vice President for Student Affairs is responsible for overseeing the Student Support and Education portfolio, including program design and oversight for areas that support students mental health and wellbeing. The Associate Vice President (AVP) for Student Affairs is a key leader within the Division, providing strategic direction and oversight for a comprehensive portfolio. The AVP ensures programs, initiatives, and events are intentionally designed and responsive to student needs, while leading and managing staff who develop initiatives that foster student success.

Responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Provides leadership for the Division of Student Affairs' student support departments and proactively educate the campus community on health-related topics.

2. Serves as the Institutional Research data governance representative for student support areas by coordinating sensitive healthrelated data with the Office of Data Strategy to ensure appropriate data stewardship, regulatory compliance, and preparedness for reporting and institutional research needs

3. Serves as the institutional point of contact for the USG Mental Health Initiative by leading a campus-wide well-being coalition aligned with JED Campus recommendations and the initiative to set annual priorities, monitor population-level indicators, identify emerging concerns, and use ongoing assessments to guide continuous improvement in policy, programming, and campus communications

4. Advances prevention education and populationlevel health literacy initiatives (e.g., mental health training, peer education, financial wellbeing, and digital mental health supports) in partnership with the USG Mental Health Initiative and local community providers

5. Evaluates utilization and impact by assessing populationlevel engagement with wellbeing initiatives and