Jorge Ancona joined the University of California, Riverside as Associate Vice Chancellor and Executive Director in 2013. Ancona provides executive leadership to the UCR Alumni Association and its board of directors, overseeing the campus protocol and events management office. He is responsible for managing the Alumni Association's donation funds and developing fundraising initiatives for the alumni association and student engagement programs to involve its over 126,000 alumni worldwide.

Ancona came to UC Riverside after over a decade at the University of California, Irvine, where he increased the association's scholarship programs from $1.5 million to $4 million; grew the association's assets from $3.4 million to $8 million; and grew attendance at the welcome program from 150 participants to over 4,000. He also led the development of the $8 million Newkirk Alumni Center. Before his appointment at UC Irvine, Ancona spent eight years in alumni relations at UCLA, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics and Latin American studies.
Ancona served on the CASE Alumni Relations Commission from 2013 to 2016 and was co-chair of the CASE Senior Alumni Relations Professionals Institutes in 2015 and 2016.

He has been a CASE speaker for Latin America in 2015, 2017, and 2019 and was a faculty member for two Minority Advancement Institutes in Washington, DC. He served on the CASE Summit Advisory Committee in 2017 and as one of two co-chairs leading an advisory group to establish the CASE Center for Minority Serving Institutions Advancement. Additionally, he has been an active member of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CAAE) Executive Council from 2004 to 2013 and from 2016 to the present. In 2018, Ancona was elected to serve on the CAAE Board of Directors.