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's 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. These faculty members are: engaging in critical reflection on the implications of digital innovations to ensure that key stakeholders - including innovators, policy-makers, and the public at large - are informed about related social, ethical, political, and economic impacts; developing, deploying, and evaluating digital technologies in applications across diverse sectors critical to national security and societal wellbeing, such as finance, education, civil infrastructure, agriculture, healthcare, entertainment, security, and government; inventing new algorithms, techniques, and technologies that, when well implemented, advance equality, wellbeing, security, and prosperity for all.