The Associate Dean for Research is a visionary collaborative leader with enterprise-wide responsibility for shaping FCoMs research infrastructure, culture, and strategy for students, faculty, and staff. This newly created position will establish, lead, and steward an integrated research ecosystem encompassing pre- and post-award services, compliance, and human subjects protection, laboratory and clinical research capacity, mentorship, and training, and external partnerships-advancing FCoMs mission, vision, and values while expanding the schools scholarly impact.
Key Responsibilities:
• Leadership & Strategy: Lead and execute the research strategic plan aligned with mission, vision, and values. Set priorities and success metrics. Assess and optimize research infrastructure policies, SOPs, and performance. Diversify, expand, and stabilize revenue sources and act as the institutional authority and central point of contact for research-related inquiries and compliance.
• Laboratory & Facilities: Design and implement laboratory-based and clinical translational population health and community-engaged research components in research and education, including facility planning, operations, safety, training, and recruitment.
• Compliance: Ensure the highest ethical standards and regulatory compliance through proactive risk assessment, audit readiness, and continuous monitoring. This includes: • IRB • Human Subjects • HIPAA • Data privacy • Research integrity • Misconduct • COI • Biosafety • Export controls, as applicable • Establish, maintain, and regularly update policies and SOPs.
• Partnerships & Community: Formalize collaborations and create networks across public health, healthcare, industry, foundations, philanthropy, and government agencies. Support school-wide research events and scholarly activities, advance sponsored research, and strategic investment opportunities.
Centers, Institutes, & Programs:
• Provide oversight and support to centers and institutes for strategic plans, governance, performance metrics, and resource alignment. • Support development and growth of graduate and combined degree programs.
Mentorship:
• Faculty Development & Training: Build a culture of mentoring, lead research mentorship programs for faculty and doctoral students, including external funding streams for doctoral trainees. Develop and oversee training on grantsmanship, design compliance, data stewardship, statistics, publishing, and communication via workshops, seminars, and course offerings.
Operations & Performance:
• Manage Research operations and budgets. Implement performance dashboards and KPIs to drive continuous improvement.
Reporting & Appointment:
• Reports to the Dean and collaborates with senior leadership, department chairs, center, institute directors, compliance officers, and core managers. • Holds faculty appointment with rank commensurate with credentials and experience.
First-Year Priorities:
Illustrative:
• Develop research structure, staffing, and SOPs. Complete infrastructure assessment and deliver a prioritized costed implementation plan. • Launch research strategic plan with defined milestones and KPIs. Initiate lab-based component design, safety staffing, and formalize collaboration agreements with key partners. • Start faculty and doctoral mentorship and grantsmanship programs with participation targets. • Deploy research dashboards and quarterly performance reporting to senior leadership.