PROSPECTUS
Associate Vice Provost for Career and Professional Development
APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 12th, 2026
POSITION OVERVIEW
Loyola Marymount University (LMU) seeks a strategic and results-oriented Associate Vice Provost for Career and Professional Development (CPDC) to lead a comprehensive, outcomes-focused career development enterprise serving undergraduate and graduate students and alumni. Reporting to senior academic leadership, the Associate Vice Provost is responsible for advancing career readiness, expanding access to internships and experiential learning, and strengthening post-graduation outcomes across all academic disciplines. The Associate Vice Provost is a senior member of the Enrollment Management and Academic Engagement Division and participates in institutional strategic planning related to enrollment, academic engagement, retention, graduation success, and overall student outcomes. The successful candidate will provide leadership and accountability for a university-wide career ecosystem that aligns academic learning with professional preparation, employer engagement, and LMU’s Jesuit mission.
SCOPE AND IMPACT
The Associate Vice Provost oversees career development services for approximately 6,000 undergraduate students, over 2,000 graduate students, and LMU alumni in collaboration with Alumni Relations. The role ensures early and sustained student engagement with career development resources, participation in internships and applied learning experiences, and strong post-graduation outcomes. As a senior leader within the Enrollment Management and Academic Engagement Division, the Associate Vice Provost meets regularly with the Deans of the Colleges and Schools offices to align career and professional development strategies with academic priorities and student engagement goals. The position also serves as a key institutional point of contact for the Board of Regents Lion Link Program and is a member of the President’s Senior Leadership Team.
KEY LEADERSHIP & RESPONSIBILITIES
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Provide senior-level leadership for LMU’s career development strategy aligned with institutional priorities
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Serve as a senior member of the Enrollment Management and Academic Engagement Division, contributing to strategic planning for enrollment, academic engagement, retention, and overall student outcomes
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Integrate career readiness competencies and experiential learning within academic and co-curricular programs
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Advance measurable outcomes related to internships, employer engagement, and post-graduation placement
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Meet regularly with the Deans of the Colleges and Schools offices to align career strategy with academic priorities
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Serve as a key point of contact for the Board of Regents Lion Link Program
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Participate as a member of the President’s Senior Leadership Team
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Develop strong employer and alumni partnerships that expand pipelines and mentoring
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Serve as a campus-wide advocate for career development
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Secure external funding and strategic partnerships
MEASURES OF SUCCESS
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Increased student engagement in career development across all schools and colleges
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Growth in high-quality internship and experiential learning participation with equitable access
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Improved post-graduation outcomes including employment, graduate study, fellowships, and service
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Strengthened employer, alumni, and Board-connected partnerships producing tangible opportunities
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Consistent use of outcomes data to inform strategy and improvement
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A high-performing, engaged career development team
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Demonstrated advancement of equity and inclusion in career outcomes
QUALIFICATIONS
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Master’s degree or equivalent experience. The incumbent will be expected to continue upgrading knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to keep abreast of regulation/policy changes.
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Minimum ten years of leadership/management experience including change management, in an area relating to careers, human resources, or higher education preferred.
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Substantial experience in leading efforts that have promoted access, diversity, inclusion, multiculturalism and education and employment equity including fluency with the current scholarship in these areas.
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Demonstrated experience in achieving goals with and through people who may, or may not, be direct reports.
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Demonstrated success in building collaborative relationships and networks for mutual benefit.
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Experience in effectively managing people, finances, and technology in a budget-constrained environment.
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Experience in building support and financial resources through the creation of results-oriented programs and initiatives.
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Exemplary communication skills (both written and oral) evidenced by background in preparing comprehensive reports and executive summaries incorporating complex, highly technical information.
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Highly developed organizational and leadership skills.
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Demonstrated experience in onboarding first-year and transfer students to career.
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Experience creating and continued exposure to experiential activities including shadowing, career treks, and internships.
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Demonstrated computer competency.
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY EXPECTATIONS
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Exhibit behavior that supports the mission, vision, and values of the university. Promote LMU’s distinctive religious identity. Communicate and employ interpersonal actions that model high standards of professional, responsible, accountable, and ethical conduct. Demonstrate a commitment to community partnership and respect.
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Demonstrate an orientation of challenging themselves, staff, students and their colleagues to be actively anti-racist and work toward greater diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Demonstrate the ability to lead a complex team, be creative, understand technical personnel and manage complex projects with dependencies, deadlines, budgets and outside resources.
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The incumbent must have the ability to initiate ideas, develop concepts and review the effectiveness of processes to ensure professional standards and high quality.
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The incumbent can work effectively and independently with internal and external constituencies.
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The incumbent can operate in an environment in which skilled relationship management and consensus building is required to deliver successful outcomes.
ABOUT LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
Founded in 1911, LMU is a top-ranked national university rooted in the Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount traditions. We are committed to fostering a diverse academic community rich in opportunity for intellectual engagement and real-world experience. We enroll an academically ambitious, multicultural, and socioeconomically diverse student body. We recruit, retain, and support a diverse faculty committed to excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, and creativity. Our three campuses are rooted in the heart of Los Angeles, a global capital for arts and entertainment, innovation and technology, business and entrepreneurship.
MISSION AND VALUES
As a Catholic institution anchored in Jesuit and Marymount educational traditions, LMU’s heritage is inspired by the combined legacies of the Jesuits, the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange. This composite religious heritage distinguishes LMU among Catholic universities. LMU enrolls, employs, and celebrates the contributions of individuals of all faiths to its distinctive mission. In 2023–24, the university commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Loyola Marymount merger.
LMU offers rigorous programs to academically ambitious students committed to lives of meaning and purpose. Benefiting from its location in one of the world’s most dynamic cities, the university provides an ideal context for study, research, creative work, and engagement with contemporary challenges. By philosophy and intention, LMU invites individuals diverse in talents, interests, and cultural and religious backgrounds to enrich its community and advance its threefold mission:
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The encouragement of learning
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The education of the whole person
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The service of faith and the promotion of justice
These values create a learning community that respects individual dignity, fosters inclusivity, and embraces a global perspective. LMU graduates emerge as skilled professionals and ethical leaders devoted to making a positive societal impact through a compassionate worldview. Please visit Mission and Ministry to view the full mission statement.
INSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY
At LMU, diversity defines who we are, who gets included in our university community, and indeed reflects the richness of diverse communities around us: regionally as well as internationally. Inclusion insists that all members of the LMU community are welcome and feel welcomed, have a voice, and are able to fully participate in the co-creation of this vision of our world. And equity means that we are committed to building an institution that is ethically and spiritually awake, one that remembers history in its practices, and understands its moral obligation to respond to the realities of societal injustice and their impacts on underrepresented groups in our midst.
LEADERSHIP
Maureen Weatherall, Ed.D.
Vice Provost for Enrollment Management
Maureen P. Weatherall, Ed.D., serves as Vice Provost for Enrollment Management and Academic Engagement at Loyola Marymount University and is a member of the President’s Cabinet. She leads the university’s enrollment strategy and oversees functions that support early outreach and summer programs; undergraduate, graduate, and international admission; transfer pathways; financial aid and registrar services; career readiness; student orientation and transitions; academic engagement; and enrollment research and technology.
In this role, Dr. Weatherall leads strategic initiatives that support enrollment planning, financial aid optimization, academic momentum, and student persistence in partnership with Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Mission and Ministry, and administrative units across the university. Her portfolio also includes programs that support student research, learning, and academic success, including the Academic Resource Center (ARC) and Disability Support Services (DSS).
Since joining LMU in 2013, Dr. Weatherall has helped expand recruitment across the United States and internationally while strengthening the academic profile of LMU’s applicant pool. She has advanced transfer pathways and community college partnerships that broaden access to LMU and has supported mission-aligned partnerships with Catholic secondary schools across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Her division also led a $2.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education Title III Strengthening Institutions supporting the Accelerating Transfer and Low-Income Access and Success (ATLAS) program, a five-year initiative designed to strengthen transfer student pathways.
Prior to LMU, Dr. Weatherall spent more than two decades at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where she served as vice president and chief administrative officer, overseeing enrollment management, student affairs, residence life, dining services, human resources, and institutional events.
Dr. Weatherall is the author of Varsity Athletics and Enrollment Management: A Strategic Partnership. She earned her Doctor of Education in Higher Education Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania and holds both a Master of Management Science in Managerial Economics and a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Kat Weaver
Executive Vice President and Provost
Kat Weaver, Ph.D., serves as the executive vice president and provost who leads the university's Academic Affairs and Enrollment Management divisions, including overseeing the educational, scholarly, and creative activities, and student research. She is also a tenured professor of biology. Weaver reports directly to President Thomas Poon.
Provost Weaver joined LMU June 1, 2018, and has been responsible for orienting new faculty; assisting students, faculty, and staff with research and professional development opportunities; providing leadership and support for external grants and contract funding opportunities and processes; overseeing the rank and tenure process; overseeing faculty awards and internal grants; and leveraging opportunities for online delivery of an LMU education. Kat’s grant and fundraising accomplishments since joining LMU include over $20M million funding both her own research and institutional support for faculty innovation and curriculum reform.
As Vice Provost, Kat and her team in the Office for Research and Sponsored Projects have elevated LMU’s success in garnering external funding by establishing an infrastructure for statistical analysis, grant writing, and proposal submission. Through the Office of Research and Creative Arts, Kat has overseen increased access for student research including the creation of a new Research Learning Community in 2019, which provides students with crucial training for independent and faculty-mentored research in their disciplines, as well as expanded programming for the summer and academic year. Under her leadership LMU received a $1.3 million McNair Scholars grant in 2022 to facilitate faculty-student research, ushering in our next five years of helping underrepresented students gain acceptances to top-tier Ph.D. programs.
Kat’s leadership was instrumental in the expansion of programming in the Center for Faculty Development (formerly the Center for Teaching Excellence) to include workshops, faculty learning communities, and LMU faculty fellows focused on antiracism, diversity, equity, and inclusion; universal design for learning; global-local opportunities; the Salon Series; and active learning pedagogy. Since 2018, Kat has also facilitated the promotions of more than 100 tenure-line faculty through her care and support in the annual year-long process.
Kat’s focus on inclusion is another strength she brings to role of Provost. In Spring 2024, Kat co-chaired, alongside Margarita Ochoa, Associate Professor of History, a taskforce charged with developing recommendations on how LMU can best embrace its new status as a Hispanic Serving Institution. The taskforce generated a compelling history of Latina/o/x/e students, staff, and faculty at LMU; a deep understanding of how our HSI status embodies LMU’s Jesuit, Marymount, and Catholic traditions; and 10 recommendations for meaningful institutional improvement to benefit all students, many of which Kat has already shepherded forward towards implementation.
Kat earned her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research on land snails and freshwater fish has been published in a variety of journal articles and technical reports. She also publishes and presents frequently about STEM education and student learning, with a focus on gender equity. Kat came to LMU in 2018 from the University of La Verne, where she served on the faculty for 12 years, most recently as professor of biology and as associate dean of learning, innovation, and teaching. Kat's textbook, “An Introduction to Statistical Analysis in Research,” utilizes an electronic format that supports hybrid learning.
APPLICATION & DEADLINE
Salary Band: $132,400 - $225,000
We encourage you to contact The Career Leadership Collective prior to submitting your application at search@careerleadershipcollective.com for additional information regarding this search.
To apply for this opportunity, visit this link. For first consideration, please submit your application (cover letter, resume, and three references) by 11:59 PDT, April 12, 2026.
LMU, an equal opportunity employer, values diversity and is committed to providing an environment free from discrimination and harassment as defined by federal, state and local law. See our Statement of Non-Discrimination and Discriminatory Harassment, Retaliation and Sexual and Interpersonal Misconduct Complaint Process for more information. Report discrimination or harassment via the Online Discrimination Complaint Report Form. https://resources.lmu.edu/titleix/statementofnondiscrimination/
