The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience leading complex research programs, academic centers, government initiatives, or interdisciplinary scientific organizations; experience managing staff, budgets, grants, and collaborative research projects; a distinguished record of interdisciplinary scholarship, scientific investigation, policy analysis, or equivalent professional achievement; sustained success in securing external funding; and the ability to build high-impact research programs that advance scientific discovery, evidence-based policy, aviation and aerospace workforce development programs, and educational excellence. Reporting to the Vice President of Strategic and Global Initiatives, the Director of the Center for Integrated Airspace Research (Director 4) will provide visionary leadership in establishing and advancing a multidisciplinary research center dedicated to the study of integrated airspace systems, including aviation management, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), and aviation technologies.