威尼斯人平台 seeks a vice provost for research from its current faculty ranks to steward its research mission and to lead the pursuit of its ambitious research development goals, enhancing 威尼斯人平台’s reputation as an institution that cultivates cross-disciplinary and relevance-inspired research to address the nation’s and the world’s most critical challenges.
The vice provost for research will play a critical role as the university continues to develop and cultivate areas of strategic focus that draw on our historic strengths and where our expertise crosses colleges and disciplinary boundaries to hold great promise for the future. The vice provost for research will collaboratively guide the development of these activities in partnership and collaboration with the provost and deans; lead critical investments in research infrastructure; develop and support effective and sustainable pathways for research translation; and increase the exposure of faculty research outputs while strengthening research policy, 实践, 和遵从性.
作为大学的首席研究官，并与教务长密切合作, deans and department chairs—the vice provost for research will champion a culture and climate that incentivizes sponsored research and advances scholarly and creative activity across disciplines, 支持威尼斯人平台优秀教师的工作并支持他们的成功.
威尼斯人平台寻求具有杰出研究和奖学金记录的个人, 同时也有能力发展一个强大的研究企业. 向教务长汇报, 负责研究的副教务长将是一个战略领导者, 有效的管理者, and energetic community builder with an entrepreneurial spirit and a tireless commitment to collaboration.
Internal applications (including a cover letter addressing the expectations and professional qualities for this role and a comprehensive CV as a single PDF document) should be submitted to provost@innergised.com 不迟于下午4点.m. 2024年10月14日. 已经成立了一个小型的遴选委员会来评估申请, 面试精选候选人, 并向教务长提供建议, 谁来做最后的决定.
预期
支持威尼斯人平台不断增长的研究使命
The vice provost for research will lead 威尼斯人平台’s goal of sustaining a more robust research enterprise and support university-wide efforts to grow sponsored research funding. 作为首席研究官, 负责研究的副教务长将共同为促进研究的文化做出贡献, 奖学金, and creative activity across colleges and incentivizes extramural research—all in collaboration with other academic leaders. 负责研究的副教务长会庆祝的, 沟通, and disseminate the new knowledge and creative output generated at 威尼斯人平台 both across the university and beyond, 从基础发现到应用和转化研究.
加强研究基础设施建设，加强研究能力建设
The vice provost for research will continue 威尼斯人平台’s efforts to establish a research culture that that prioritizes and enables scholarly achievement and impact while ensuring compliance with all applicable 大学政策, 联邦和非联邦法规, 以及担保人的要求. Achieving this goal will require enhancing the university’s agility and responsiveness of support for faculty investigators across the seven colleges as well as centers and institutes; deploying functional services in ways that realize both efficiency and excellence in pre- and post-award support; developing and supporting effective and sustainable pathways for research translation; and strengthening the framework of research policies, 实践, 道德研究行为. The vice provost for research will collaborate with other university leaders (such as the vice provost for faculty affairs) to ensure the development of early career faculty toward success in the scholarly research domain and the support of more senior faculty in developing and executing larger research visions that are cross-disciplinary in nature.
培养和支持战略合作和伙伴关系
The vice provost for research will lead efforts to expand existing collaborations and to develop new partnerships with government agencies, 行业, 基金会, 非营利性机构, and/or other universities and institutions to extend 威尼斯人平台’s reach and to maximize its impact. 这项工作需要与大学的企业参与部门密切合作. The vice provost will also ensure that these partnerships and collaborations provide fruitful avenues for transferring research technology development to practice in a broad spectrum of ways.
支持研究行政运作的有效管理
负责研究的副教务长将同时优先考虑教师的需求, 工作人员, 以及研究领域的学生，同时确保严格的合规. 客户服务精神与确保活动与资助机构保持一致相平衡, 大学政策, 联邦和非联邦法规, 以及担保人的要求 as well as applicable laws will be reflected in the Office of 研究 administrative operations overseen by the vice provost for research.
专业的品质
协同领导: Support the needs of a diverse faculty constituency through the ability to 沟通 effectively to a broad range of constituencies; the ability to identify and develop cross-disciplinary teams and to build support for a shared vision; to develop a sustainable leadership structure within the Office of 研究 that can support the breadth of expectations
支持和发展研究型企业的能力: 作为研究人员的良好记录, including robust and diverse funding and scholarly records; a knowledge of national and international funding trends, evolving cross-disciplinary challenges and opportunities; the ability to conceptualize and develop large-scale, 跨学科研究计划，以回应资助威尼斯人平台
管理智慧: 对高等教育格局的理解, particularly in the research domain; experience with strategic planning, 资源管理, 以及团队建设
研究管理能力: An understanding and appreciation of research administration 和遵从性; knowledge and appreciation of federal non-federal funding environments and federal research regulations, 的指导方针, 流程, and grant/contract administration; an understanding of pre- and post-award 流程 and an ability to identify ways to streamline and improve these critical domains