Associate Director, Institute for Digital Innovation

Associate Director, Institute for Digital Innovation

The Associate Director serves as a collaborative, strategic, and insightful leader to advance successful initiatives aligned with both IDIA's and George Mason University's strategic goals. Reporting to IDIA's Executive Director, the Associate Director works closely with the IDIA team, university leadership, and faculty to develop and manage programs and initiatives that catalyze, develop, and scale transdisciplinary research efforts across the university. The Associate Director also works with the Executive Director to connect the university, faculty, and students with key stakeholders including local, state, and federal agencies, non-governmental and community-based organizations, and private sector partners to foster external collaboration opportunities for George Mason University faculty and students. The Associate Director actively identifies opportunities for strategic engagement within the George Mason community, works with faculty to identify internal and external partnerships essential to expanding their research and scholarship, and cultivates partnerships to facilitate novel research-to-impact initiatives within and across the digital innovation domains.

Responsibilities :

• Works with the IDIA Executive Director, Local Academic Units' leadership, and faculty to identify strategic opportunities for building capacity, developing, and scaling faculty-led transdisciplinary research initiatives;
• Develops programs with external partners that support transdisciplinary research and scholarship within the IDIA community;
• Supports the development of solutions to advance an emergent George Mason University Grand Challenge Initiative;
• Identifies opportunities and prepares proposals to resource partnerships, programs, and initiatives;
• Provides program management support to help faculty rapidly launch newly acquired large-scale transdisciplinary grants;
• Communicates regularly with the IDIA community to ensure full participation and active engagement; and
• Supervises program support staff and student workers as needed.

Required Qualifications :

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Instructions to Applicants :

For full consideration, applicants must apply for the Associate Director, Institute for Digital Innovation at https : / / jobs.gmu.edu / . Complete and submit the online application to include three professional references with contact information, and provide a cover letter and resume for review.