Carnegie Mellon University is a private, global research university that stands among the world’s most renowned education institutions. With ground-breaking brain science, path-breaking performances, creative start-ups, big data, big ambitions, hands-on learning, and a whole lot of robots, CMU doesn’t imagine the future, we invent it. If you’re passionate about joining a community that challenges the curious to deliver work that matters, your journey starts here!Our Office of the President is excited to search for and hire a Deputy Chief of Staff.This role's prime focus is presidential preparedness: ensuring that whatever room, decision, or crisis the President walks into, they have already been equipped for it. This role functions as the conductor of that readiness, pulling together intelligence, briefings, context, and risk from every part of the University so the President is never caught flat-footed and never has to ask for something that should have already been on his desk.The Deputy is also a force multiplier for the Chief of Staff, extending the COS reach and judgment into the volume of work that no single office can carry alone. The Deputy will overlap with strategic initiatives where preparedness intersects with execution, but that is secondary to the core mandate: keep the President ready, informed, and ahead of what is coming.This role works in close coordination with the Director of Administrative Operations, who owns day-to-day logistics, correspondence execution, and initial triage of incoming requests to the Office. The Deputy Chief of Staff owns the strategic readiness layer above that: determining what matters, how it should be framed, and what the President needs to know and do about it.This person will work at two altitudes simultaneously: deep enough into the detail to catch what will break before it breaks, and high enough above it to see how a decision in one part of the University lands in another. They will serve as the primary bac
