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The Assistant to the Executive Vice President for Strategic Technology Projects will concentrate on institutional priorities, including projects supported by focused funding opportunities, and will help move selected initiatives from problem definition through implementation and transition to permanent University teams. The role combines enterprise architecture, hands-on project leadership, process analysis, solution design, due diligence, and executive decision support. It is intended to expand WKU's capacity for high-value project work without recreating the operational or personnel-management responsibilities of a full-time executive position. This a temporary part-time position lasting up to one year. Continuation is dependent upon funding/need.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Enterprise Technology Architecture and Strategy
- Evaluate existing and proposed enterprise technology architectures across infrastructure, networking, cloud and data center services, enterprise applications, cybersecurity, identity and access management, integration, automation, data, telecommunications, audiovisual systems, and physical security technologies.
- Develop practical current-state assessments, target-state architectures, technical standards, decision frameworks, and sequenced modernization roadmaps.
- Translate institutional objectives and operational problems into clear technology options, including costs, risks, dependencies, staffing implications, implementation complexity, and expected outcomes.
- Identify opportunities to simplify the environment, reduce unnecessary duplication or customization, improve resilience, and make better use of existing investments.
- Provide independent technical judgment on high-impact or cross-functional decisions while respecting the authority of existing University executives, ITS leaders, system owners, and governance bodies.
Project Initiatives and Leadership
- Serve as solution architect for selected initiatives supported by one-time state funding or other time-limited resources.
- Convert broad funding objectives into defined projects with clear scope, outcomes, deliverables, schedules, budgets, dependencies, decision rights, success measures, and transition plans.
- Coordinate work among technical teams, functional offices, executive sponsors, vendors, procurement, and other stakeholders without assuming routine personnel-management responsibility.
- Help ensure that funding opportunities produce durable institutional value and does not create unsupported systems, hidden recurring costs, fragmented ownership, or avoidable technical debt.
- Lead selected projects through discovery, procurement support, design, implementation oversight, acceptance, operational transition, and post-implementation review, as assigned.
Business Process Review and Solution Design
- Work with functional offices and technical teams to document current processes, clarify desired outcomes, identify bottlenecks and control gaps, and distinguish underlying problems from symptoms.
- Challenge unnecessary steps, duplicate data entry, manual handoffs, inconsistent rules, excess customization, and workarounds that have accumulated over time.
- Design improved future-state processes before selecting or configuring technology, recognizing that the appropriate solution may involve policy, role clarity, workflow redesign, integration, automation, better use of an existing platform, or new technology.
- Develop practical solution designs that define process ownership, user roles, data flows, integrations, security and privacy controls, exception handling, reporting needs, support requirements, and measures of success.
- Create limited prototypes, proofs of concept, process models, or reference architectures when they provide an efficient way to test feasibility, improve stakeholder understanding, or reduce implementation risk.
- Ensure that proposed solutions are understandable and maintainable by the people who will own them after the assignment is completed and transitioned.
Technology Investment and Vendor Guidance
- Review significant technology proposals, licensing models, contract structures, implementation plans, and vendor claims.
- Evaluate total cost of ownership, recurring financial commitments, operational sustainability, integration requirements, security implications, institutional capacity, and long-term value.
- Participate in selected vendor discussions, technical evaluations, procurement planning, contract-renewal preparation, and escalation efforts.
- Prepare concise business cases, comparison models, architecture recommendations, or decision memoranda for major technology investments.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
- At least 12 years of progressively responsible professional experience in enterprise information technology.
- At least 5 years of experience in senior technology leadership, enterprise architecture, technology strategy, complex project leadership, or a comparable advisory role.
- Demonstrated experience across multiple enterprise technology domains, such as infrastructure, networking, data centers or cloud services, enterprise applications, cybersecurity, identity and access management, systems integration, automation, service management, telecommunications, audiovisual systems, or physical security technology.
- Demonstrated experience leading or evaluating major technology initiatives in a complex organization and working across technical and functional boundaries.
- Experience conducting business-process reviews and translating operational needs into improved processes and practical technology solutions.
- Experience developing project plans, architecture recommendations, roadmaps, business cases, technical assessments, or executive decision materials.
- Experience collaborating with executive leaders, operational stakeholders, vendors, procurement personnel, and technical professionals.
Additional Information:
Kentucky state law requires all public institutions of postsecondary education to conduct pre-employment criminal background checks to determine suitability for employment.
Western Kentucky University (WKU) is committed to a policy and practice of providing equal employment and educational opportunities to all individuals. In accordance with Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Revised 1992, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, no form of discrimination or harassment will be tolerated at WKU on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, age, uniformed services, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, or physical or mental disability in admission to career and technical education programs and/or activities, or employment practices.
Persons with disabilities, who need reasonable accommodations to participate in the application and/or selection process, may contact the Office of Institutional Equity at 270-745-5121 for assistance. To report concerns related to WKU's Discrimination and Harassment Policy, No. 0.2040 and/or WKU's Sex and Gender-Based Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Policy, No. 0.2070, please complete the Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Reporting Form. Additional information regarding Title IX, including contact information for the Title IX Coordinator and reporting options, is available on WKU's Title IX website.
Information concerning educational programs offered by WKU are provided at: https://www.wku.edu/academics/
For information related to job postings, application status, or the hiring process, please email employment@wku.edu.
The Assistant to the Executive Vice President for Strategic Technology Projects will concentrate on institutional priorities, including projects supported by focused funding opportunities, and will help move selected initiatives from problem definition through implementation and transition to permanent University teams. The role combines enterprise architecture, hands-on project leadership, process analysis, solution design, due diligence, and executive decision support. It is intended to expand WKU's capacity for high-value project work without recreating the operational or personnel-management responsibilities of a full-time executive position. This a temporary part-time position lasting up to one year. Continuation is dependent upon funding/need.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Enterprise Technology Architecture and Strategy
- Evaluate existing and proposed enterprise technology architectures across infrastructure, networking, cloud and data center services, enterprise applications, cybersecurity, identity and access management, integration, automation, data, telecommunications, audiovisual systems, and physical security technologies.
- Develop practical current-state assessments, target-state architectures, technical standards, decision frameworks, and sequenced modernization roadmaps.
- Translate institutional objectives and operational problems into clear technology options, including costs, risks, dependencies, staffing implications, implementation complexity, and expected outcomes.
- Identify opportunities to simplify the environment, reduce unnecessary duplication or customization, improve resilience, and make better use of existing investments.
- Provide independent technical judgment on high-impact or cross-functional decisions while respecting the authority of existing University executives, ITS leaders, system owners, and governance bodies.
Project Initiatives and Leadership
- Serve as solution architect for selected initiatives supported by one-time state funding or other time-limited resources.
- Convert broad funding objectives into defined projects with clear scope, outcomes, deliverables, schedules, budgets, dependencies, decision rights, success measures, and transition plans.
- Coordinate work among technical teams, functional offices, executive sponsors, vendors, procurement, and other stakeholders without assuming routine personnel-management responsibility.
- Help ensure that funding opportunities produce durable institutional value and does not create unsupported systems, hidden recurring costs, fragmented ownership, or avoidable technical debt.
- Lead selected projects through discovery, procurement support, design, implementation oversight, acceptance, operational transition, and post-implementation review, as assigned.
Business Process Review and Solution Design
- Work with functional offices and technical teams to document current processes, clarify desired outcomes, identify bottlenecks and control gaps, and distinguish underlying problems from symptoms.
- Challenge unnecessary steps, duplicate data entry, manual handoffs, inconsistent rules, excess customization, and workarounds that have accumulated over time.
- Design improved future-state processes before selecting or configuring technology, recognizing that the appropriate solution may involve policy, role clarity, workflow redesign, integration, automation, better use of an existing platform, or new technology.
- Develop practical solution designs that define process ownership, user roles, data flows, integrations, security and privacy controls, exception handling, reporting needs, support requirements, and measures of success.
- Create limited prototypes, proofs of concept, process models, or reference architectures when they provide an efficient way to test feasibility, improve stakeholder understanding, or reduce implementation risk.
- Ensure that proposed solutions are understandable and maintainable by the people who will own them after the assignment is completed and transitioned.
Technology Investment and Vendor Guidance
- Review significant technology proposals, licensing models, contract structures, implementation plans, and vendor claims.
- Evaluate total cost of ownership, recurring financial commitments, operational sustainability, integration requirements, security implications, institutional capacity, and long-term value.
- Participate in selected vendor discussions, technical evaluations, procurement planning, contract-renewal preparation, and escalation efforts.
- Prepare concise business cases, comparison models, architecture recommendations, or decision memoranda for major technology investments.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
- At least 12 years of progressively responsible professional experience in enterprise information technology.
- At least 5 years of experience in senior technology leadership, enterprise architecture, technology strategy, complex project leadership, or a comparable advisory role.
- Demonstrated experience across multiple enterprise technology domains, such as infrastructure, networking, data centers or cloud services, enterprise applications, cybersecurity, identity and access management, systems integration, automation, service management, telecommunications, audiovisual systems, or physical security technology.
- Demonstrated experience leading or evaluating major technology initiatives in a complex organization and working across technical and functional boundaries.
- Experience conducting business-process reviews and translating operational needs into improved processes and practical technology solutions.
- Experience developing project plans, architecture recommendations, roadmaps, business cases, technical assessments, or executive decision materials.
- Experience collaborating with executive leaders, operational stakeholders, vendors, procurement personnel, and technical professionals.
Additional Information:
Kentucky state law requires all public institutions of postsecondary education to conduct pre-employment criminal background checks to determine suitability for employment.
Western Kentucky University (WKU) is committed to a policy and practice of providing equal employment and educational opportunities to all individuals. In accordance with Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Revised 1992, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, no form of discrimination or harassment will be tolerated at WKU on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, age, uniformed services, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, or physical or mental disability in admission to career and technical education programs and/or activities, or employment practices.
Persons with disabilities, who need reasonable accommodations to participate in the application and/or selection process, may contact the Office of Institutional Equity at 270-745-5121 for assistance. To report concerns related to WKU's Discrimination and Harassment Policy, No. 0.2040 and/or WKU's Sex and Gender-Based Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Policy, No. 0.2070, please complete the Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Reporting Form. Additional information regarding Title IX, including contact information for the Title IX Coordinator and reporting options, is available on WKU's Title IX website.
Information concerning educational programs offered by WKU are provided at: https://www.wku.edu/academics/
For information related to job postings, application status, or the hiring process, please email employment@wku.edu.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in vice president of projects jobs.
- 10 or more years of progressive project or program management leadership experience
- Demonstrated experience managing large-scale, cross-functional project portfolios end to end
- PMP, PgMP, or equivalent project management certification strongly preferred or required
- Proficiency with enterprise project management platforms such as Microsoft Project or Smartsheet
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, construction management, or a related field
- Experience building and leading high-performing project management teams across multiple business units
Tips for Your Vice President of Projects Job Search
Quantify portfolio scale on your resume
Vice president of projects roles demand evidence of large-scale delivery. List total capital value managed, number of concurrent projects overseen, and team sizes led. Hiring committees screen for candidates who have owned complexity at an enterprise level, not just individual project success.
Align your PMP or PgMP certification visibly
Many postings at this level screen for a Project Management Professional or Program Management Professional credential. Put it in your resume header, not buried in a certifications section. If you hold both, list both. Applicant tracking systems often filter on these terms before a human sees your file.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists vice president of projects openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by budget authority level
Vice president of projects job descriptions vary widely in actual authority. Read each posting for explicit budget ownership figures and capital approval thresholds. Applying only where your previous authority is a close match prevents being screened out for being overqualified or underqualified on day one.
Prepare a structured project post-mortem story
Interviewers at this level routinely ask you to walk through a major project that did not go as planned. Have a specific example ready that covers the original scope, what broke down, your decision-making under pressure, and the measurable outcome. Vague answers end vice president candidacies at this stage.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate compensation
Before accepting or countering an offer, clarify which project portfolios you will own, what approval authority comes with the role, and whether the team is fully staffed. Ambiguity on these points creates misaligned expectations within the first ninety days and complicates any performance review tied to deliverables.
Vice President of Projects Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most vice president of projectss?
The companies hiring the most vice president of projectss right now include JLL, ENFRA, and Eurest, with the largest share of openings in Texas, Washington, and Indiana, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Construction, technology, and healthcare organizations consistently represent the largest share of active postings at this level.
How many vice president of projects jobs are remote?
About 33% of vice president of projects openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though fully on-site roles remain common in construction, manufacturing, and capital-intensive industries. Program management and technology-focused vice president of projects roles tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while roles tied to physical infrastructure or regulated facilities typically require an on-site presence.
How do you become a vice president of projects?
Start by building a foundation in project management, earning a PMP credential, and progressing through senior project manager and director-level roles where you own multi-project portfolios. Develop financial acumen by owning budgets and tracking return on investment across programs. Demonstrate executive-level communication by presenting to boards or C-suite stakeholders. Most vice presidents of projects reach the title after leading large cross-functional teams through complex, high-stakes delivery cycles.
Can you get hired as a vice president of projects with limited senior leadership experience?
It is uncommon but possible in smaller organizations or high-growth companies where the title reflects scope rather than team size. If you are transitioning up, focus on roles at companies with lean management structures, emphasize any experience owning an entire project lifecycle, and highlight measurable delivery outcomes. Contract or interim vice president of projects engagements can also provide a credible entry point into the title.
What does the vice president of projects interview process look like?
Most processes begin with a recruiter screen, followed by a competency-based interview with a senior HR leader. Expect a panel interview with peers from operations, finance, and technology, where you will walk through past portfolio decisions and stakeholder conflicts. Many organizations then ask for a presentation on how you would approach their project management function. Final rounds typically include a conversation with the CEO, COO, or board sponsor before an offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to vice president of projects jobs?
You can find and apply to vice president of projects jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing. New openings are added regularly, so checking back frequently gives you the best chance of catching a role before the application window closes.
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