UC Santa Cruz has chosen Edward D. Reiskin as its subsequent Vice Chancellor for Finance, Operations and Administration and Chief Monetary Officer. He’ll begin in early February 2023.
Reiskin has greater than 20 years {of professional} expertise as a public sector administrator. He presently serves as the town of Oakland’s prime administrative officer. He’s liable for executing and imposing all the metropolis’s legal guidelines and insurance policies, administering metropolis affairs, and overseeing an working price range of $2.2 billion, roughly 4,500 staff, and the town’s capital program.
Reiskin is about to start on campus in early February, capping a nationwide recruitment that started in Could with campus stakeholder-engagement conferences. Campus Provost and Govt Vice Chancellor Lori Kletzer chaired the search advisory committee.
“The scope and breadth of Ed’s expertise, his skill to navigate complicated environments and numerous stakeholder teams, and his competency in a bunch of areas over which he could have direct oversight on our campus make him a powerful addition to our management workforce,” mentioned Chancellor Cynthia Larive. “I’m grateful for the efforts of the search advisory committee and appreciative of all in our campus group who shared their insights in the course of the recruitment. We leaned deeply on group suggestions all through this course of.”
The Vice Chancellor for Finance, Operations and Administration is a key place at UC Santa Cruz, as this chief is entrusted with a variety of obligations. Faculties, Housing and Academic Providers; Monetary Affairs; Bodily Planning, Improvement and Operations; Danger and Security Providers; Employees Human Assets; and Sustainability are all models inside the division. The place was beforehand generally known as Vice Chancellor for Enterprise and Administrative Providers. The identify of the division and the place had been modified this summer season to raised mirror the division’s key features.
Reiskin has greater than twenty years of administration expertise. He started his present function in Oakland in 2020. Earlier to that he served as the town’s Assistant Metropolis Administrator; Director of the Municipal Transportation Company for the Metropolis and County of San Francisco; and Director of the San Francisco Division of Public Works. Previous to his arrival within the San Francisco Bay Space, he served as interim Metropolis Administrator for the District of Columbia, and for 2 years because the district’s Deputy Mayor for Public Security & Justice. His administration obligations in these varied roles have included finance, infrastructure, transit, housing, capital planning and public security.
Reiskin earned a grasp’s of public administration from Harvard College’s John F. Kennedy Faculty of Authorities; a grasp’s of enterprise administration from New York College’s Leonard N. Stern Faculty of Enterprise; and a bachelor’s of science in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise.
He mentioned he has at all times valued working in native authorities due to the power to make a tangible influence on the lives of others. “Specializing in applications, initiatives and insurance policies that assist the disenfranchised, the power to make a distinction in individuals’s lives who’ve been marginalized, that brings lots of which means to the work,” he mentioned, noting the similarity of labor in greater training, particularly at a public college.
Reiskin mentioned that whereas most of the obligations of the Finance, Operations and Administration Division are “back-office features,” the work is straight related to the lives and experiences of scholars, workers and school. “Payroll, eating, housing, HR, procurement — these are all critically important features that matter to individuals.”
UCSC’s lengthy historical past of social-equity and environmental-justice advocacy, the campus dedication to analysis excellence, and the great thing about the panorama itself had been large attracts for Reiskin, as had been strategic planning that’s now happening and the lately authorised Lengthy Vary Improvement Plan.
“Having these components in place makes it an thrilling time to come back to UC Santa Cruz,” he mentioned. “I stay up for supporting implementation of the LRDP and guiding the division in help of campus objectives set within the new strategic plan.”
Till Reiskin arrives on campus, Biju Kamaleswaran will proceed to function the division’s interim chief, a task he has held since January 2022. When Reiskin arrives, Kamaleswaran will return to his put up as Affiliate Vice Chancellor, Monetary Affairs and Campus Controller.
