Employment

Current openings:

The president provides overall leadership for the organization, its staff, programs, and infrastructure while serving as a trusted partner to university provosts and other institutional leaders across the consortium. The president helps shape the BTAA’s strategy and future direction, ensuring it remains responsive to members’ needs while leveraging its unique convening power to elevate the collective strengths of member universities. Balancing strategic vision with operational excellence, the president will creatively leverage resources and partnerships to advance shared priorities and build upon BTAA’s longstanding record of impact.

The Big Ten Academic Alliance offers a highly collegial headquarters office and the ability to work with some of the best leaders in American higher education. The staff has a genuine appreciation for research universities in general, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance universities in particular. Skilled in synthesizing information from many discussions into focused areas for action, the Big Ten Academic Alliance team has the ability to distinguish great ideas from the mediocre, deftly handle both concepts and personalities, and possesses the wherewithal to move projects from idea to action with autonomous groups and individuals.

What's it like to work at the Big Ten Academic Alliance?

"Working for the Big Ten Academic Alliance is very energizing. The headquarters team is incredible – smart, strategic, interesting, quirky, and dedicated to top performance."

"Our portfolio of activities today is very different than it was 5 years ago – the things we do know we couldn't have even dreamed of doing back then, but building on our successes has allowed today's projects to become realities."

"Because of the breadth of areas covered by the work of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, there are many opportunities for us to model collaboration in our own office (between technology and libraries, or between student programs and international projects, etc.)."