Higher Education Executive Roles — Universities, Research Institutions
More than 452 executive roles classified in Higher Education, with 21 new this week. Provosts, Deans, Chief Financial Officers of universities, and senior administrators at research institutions and academic medical centers.
Tier breakdown
7
Founder170
C-Suite174
VP1
Sr Director100
DirectorWhat this category covers
Higher Education covers executive roles at universities, colleges, research institutions, and academic medical centers. The leadership lattice is unique — Provosts and Deans sit at exec-tier alongside CFOs and CIOs.
Academic medical center leadership is often dual-tracked between Higher Education and Healthcare Payers & Providers. The classifier includes such roles here when the primary org is the university.
Across the 452 active roles in this category, the largest tier is VP. The classifier weighs company size, scope, and reporting line — not just the title prefix — so the tier mix reflects real responsibility, not vanity titles.
Sample Jobs (10 of 452)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Director of the Utah Data Coordinating Center The University of Utah Lead an established, full-service academic research organization while shaping its next chapter of growth and impact. The Utah Data Coordinating Center supports complex multicenter research for investigators and sponsors across academia, government, and industry. Director | Salt Lake City, UT Unknown |
| Dean, Sub-Faculty of Clinical and Molecular Medicine Monash Health and Monash University The Dean will lead the Sub-Faculty of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, focusing on research and innovation at Monash Health and Monash University. Responsibilities include strategic leadership in research partnerships and translating research into practice. VP | Melbourne, Victoria Onsite |
| Sales Director, Ireland Education Flywire Manage Flywire's presence in the Irish Higher Education market, focusing on new business and revenue growth, and relationship management. Director | Dublin, Ireland Hybrid |
| VP, Security & Quality Meazure Learning The VP, Security & Quality is responsible for advancing security, integrity, quality, and operational reliability of Meazure Learning’s testing environment. This includes overseeing testing-security practices and quality management across remote and onsite testing. VP | Remote US Opportunity, Vienna, VA, US Hybrid |
| Vice President, Finance Universities Canada The Vice President, Finance will provide financial leadership, support strategic planning, and manage financial operations at Universities Canada. C-Suite | ON, CA Unknown |
| Chief Operating Officer The British International School Jeddah The British International School Jeddah seeks an experienced Chief Operating Officer to lead the school through a strategic stage in its evolution, supporting the delivery of its 2030 strategy and transition to a new campus. C-Suite | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Onsite |
| President Elizabethtown College The Elizabethtown College Board of Trustees invites applications for the 17th President. The role requires a leader committed to the college's values, with financial acumen and a record of higher education leadership. C-Suite | Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania Onsite |
| Directors of Development, Corporate and Foundation Relations Georgia State University Georgia State University seeks two Directors of Development to build relationships with corporate and foundation leaders, supporting philanthropic growth and partnerships. C-Suite | Atlanta, GA Unknown |
| Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities The CLO will provide legal strategy, oversight, and accountability for all legal functions across the agency, reporting directly to the President. The role involves supervising the Senior VP, handling high-risk legal matters, and ensuring legal compliance. C-Suite | Redmond, Washington Remote |
| Director of Lifecycle Marketing Inspira Education The Director of Lifecycle Marketing will drive acquisition and engagement across Inspira Education's portfolio of brands, owning CRM communication strategy, leading campaign execution, and collaborating with various teams. The role requires in-person presence in NYC. Director | New York, NY Onsite |
How classification gets to this category
Higher Education classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:
- Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
- Compensation threshold. An exec-tier base-comp floor filters out individual-contributor roles that share the title language. Roles below the floor in unambiguous category titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the JD for academic-leadership signals: Provost-vs-Dean scope, faculty governance ties, and budget authority. The classifier handles non-corporate title conventions correctly. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
Negative filters explicitly block adjacent IC and analyst roles whose titles can resemble executive ones. The result: Higher Education as a category in your inbox is the executive cut, not the entry-level cut.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Higher Education is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Higher Education + CXO-tier and you see Provosts, COOs, and CFOs at major universities and research institutions — your inbox shows the intersection, not the union. You won't see roles that match only one of the filters and not the other.
Tier filtering layers on top. If you only want VP-tier and above in this category, the seniority-tier filter does that cleanly. Restrict further to C-suite only to see the most senior seats, or open it up to Director-tier to widen the funnel during early-stage exploration.
Remote mix