Provost

Provost

Berklee College of Music, the world’s leading institution for the study of music, dance, and theater, invites applications and nominations for the Executive Vice President and Provost.

The Provost will partner with President Jim Lucchese and other senior administrators to build upon Berklee’s significant strengths in curricular and programmatic innovation, enhancing the unique value of a Berklee education through the continued promotion of artistic excellence, globalization of programs, and integration of professionalizing experiences that can enable Berklee graduates to thrive now and in the future.

The ideal candidate will bring a proven track record of programmatic innovation, ideally in higher education, the ability to build widespread trust with a large, diverse, stakeholder group, and experience building organizational alignment across a complex, multi-location global operation of Berklee’s scale.

Berklee offers transformative educational programs ranging from performance, production, and composition to business, education, music therapy, music and culture of the African diaspora, and other disciplines. Its innovative curriculum blends contemporary and classical training with emerging technology and creative entrepreneurship, providing students with unparalleled resources to excel in their creative pursuits. Since its founding in Boston, Berklee has evolved into a global community, now home to over 8,000 students from more than 100 countries and connected by a network of 84,000+ alumni.

Berklee offers undergraduate, graduate, pre-college, summer, and continuing education programs across its campuses in Boston, New York City, and Valencia, Spain, and through its award-winning online platform, Berklee Online. Berklee Global provides educational opportunities worldwide via the Berklee Abu Dhabi Center and an extensive network of partner schools located in 20 countries across five continents. Its youth outreach initiative, Berklee City Music, provides tuition‑free music education to 4th–12th graders in underserved communities, partnering with organizations in more than 45 communities across America and abroad to serve 53,000+ students each year.

Berklee's campuses serve as cultural centers, enriching their communities through thousands of performances, clinics, master classes, and other events each year. Across Boston campus venues such as the Berklee Performance Center, Red Room at Cafe 939, and the Boston Conservatory Theater, and at its institutional hubs in Valencia and Abu Dhabi, Berklee creates opportunities to experience just about any genre or style of performance imaginable, produced by exciting emerging artists and world-class talents — the students, faculty, alumni, neighbors, and distinguished visiting artists who step onto Berklee stages every night.

Berklee is assisted by Heidrick & Struggles, Inc. Nominations, inquiries, and applications (including a CV) should be directed to: View email address on click.appcast.io.

Berklee expects to pay the successful candidate in the range of $385,000 to $425,000.

Berklee is deeply committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical disability, mental disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic which may be specified by law or institutional policy. For more on Berklee’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, please see the Diversity Values Statement and visit Human Resources or the Office for Diversity and Inclusion.