VP Facilities and Operations reorganization

To achieve the goals of the University of Alberta for Tomorrow initiative, our new model centralizes many services and administrative activities, processes, and functions that are common to faculties and units across the university.

Facilities & Operations (F&O), like the rest of the university community, continues to make adjustments as we work to become the University of Alberta for Tomorrow (UAT), advancing the university's mission into the future. The new organizational charts illustrate how our teams will be organized and services delivered across the five departments:

• Asset Management and Operations
• Campus Services
• Integrated Planning, Development and Partnerships
• Support and Recreation Services
• Utilities

While changes to our organizational structure have been steadily taking place since 2017, including a realignment in November 2020 to implement our SET reduction targets, this recent reorganization allows us to focus our attention on contributing to the UAT mission.

Key features

Some fairly dramatic realignments needed to occur to achieve our initial SET budget targets—at the same time we were welcoming eight new units to our portfolio including Campus and Community Recreation, U of A Botanic Gardens, Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic, Emergency Management, Technical Training Centre, U of A Pharmacy, U of A Bookstore, and U of A Protective Services.

Overall, the new organizational structure establishes clearer lines of authority and accountability. While certain areas of F&O are being more directly impacted, the changes to the portfolio for the university community will be minimal.

 

Organizational charts

VP Facilities and Operations portfolio

Notes:

• Dashed lines indicate services received from other portfolios.

 

Support and Recreation Services

 

Integrated Planning, Development and Partnerships

 

Campus Services

 

Utilities

 

Asset Management and Operations

 

Next steps

As part of our transformation through the UAT initiative, we have committed to optimizing our campus spaces and ensuring they are being used to the maximum extent to serve our mission of teaching, research, and community engagement. This month, we will begin the process of collaborating with university stakeholders to create a more comprehensive inventory of all of our campus spaces with the aim to collect data that reflects their unique uses and utilization—from research to infrastructure tie-ins to third-party partnerships.

This comprehensive inventory represents a very important step in ensuring that spaces across all of our campuses are best aligned to efficiently support our academic and research mission as well as our growth as an institution.