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Visiting Assistant or Associate Director of Research - Department of Computer Science (113566)

Employer: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Champaign, IL

Administrative Jobs: Academic Affairs, Research Staff & Technicians, Institutional & Business Affairs, Institutional Research & Planning
Employment Type: Full Time
Institution Type: Four-Year Institution

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Visiting Assistant or Associate Director of Research
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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The Department of Computer Science (CS) at the College of Engineering seeks applicants for the position of Assistant or Associate Director of Research to successfully submit proposals to large funding opportunities, especially aimed at center-scale research projects led by departmental faculty. These responsibilities include finding grant opportunities, organizing meetings of departmental faculty to inform them about major funding opportunities, leading individual teams in developing and submitting proposals, and establishing and growing an industrial affiliates program. The Assistant or Associate Director is responsible for forming multi-disciplinary teams of researchers within the Computer Science (CS) department as well as other researchers at UIUC to respond to funding opportunities. The Assistant or Associate Director will work closely with University of Illinois faculty in these endeavors.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

Major Duties and Responsibilities include the following (may vary depending on position level):

Provide leadership to faculty in the development, coordination and planning of proposals in response to major funding opportunities. This includes:
- Implementing strategies for monitoring funding opportunities; attaining detailed knowledge of federal, state, foundation and campus research funding programs; creating and maintaining an interactive database or website with information about these opportunities; educating the CS faculty about these opportunities; leading informational meetings about these opportunities when appropriate.
- Using technical writing skills for proposal development and creation; identifying, improving, and submitting grant proposals in conjunction with faculty, staff, and other campus units; producing attractive figures for use within proposals, managing budget preparation, proposal timelines and shared content, assuring compliance with funding agency and University policies, and ensuring attainment of submission deadlines.
- Learning about CS faculty research interests; identifying collaborative possibilities that could be led by CS faculty, potentially spanning UIUC and external collaborators, and matching them to available funding opportunities; facilitating formation of multi-disciplinary teams led by CS faculty to prepare for potential funding opportunities; developing and maintaining record-keeping system for tracking research activity and interests within the university that are related to CS faculty research.
Lead the collaboration of departmental staff and Sponsored Programs Administration to assure compliance with funding agency requirements and University submission policies to submit completed proposals.
Implement strategies for CS faculty and staff to identify industry sponsorship connections, organize industry visits, connect CS researchers with industry collaborators, support industry workshops, and develop and sustain an active membership-based industrial affiliates program.
Serve as point of contact for the department with Office of Research of the College of Engineering with respect to identification of funding opportunities, building trans-campus teams, preparation of proposals and related activities.
Advise CS faculty leading large projects with recruiting scientific and administrative staff to support their projects.
Perform and coordinate pink, red, gold, and white team reviews of proposals.
Assume additional appropriate duties to further the research mission of the
department.

Required Qualifications – Assistant Director:

M.S. degree in Computer Science or a related field
5 years of relevant work experience
Experience in technical writing, including proofreading and editing
Demonstrated strong proficiency in all forms of communication (oral, written, email)
Prior experience with proposal development, with demonstrated success in obtaining research funding from federal agencies or industry or both
Solid time management and organizational skills

Preferred Qualifications – Assistant Director:

PhD in a related, applicable field with 1 year of related work experience
Ability to think strategically and to make connections across disciplines within Computer Science and related fields
Experience and/or understanding of federal, state and campus research funding programs
Experience in a higher education environment
Experience in interdisciplinary multi-institutional research projects
Demonstrated ability to interact with both internal and external constituents
Ability to work either independently or collaboratively as needed
Prior experience with pink, red, gold, and white team review

Required Qualifications – Associate Director:

M.S. degree in Computer Science or a related field
7+ years of relevant experience in a large research institution
Experience in research proposal development and creation
Strong technical writing skills, including proofreading and editing
Ability to perform core job duties independently, utilizing good judgment and prioritization skills
Demonstrated strong proficiency in all forms of communication (oral, written, email)
Prior experience with proposal development, with demonstrated success in obtaining research funding from federal agencies or industry or both
Solid time management and organizational skills

Preferred Qualifications – Associate Director:

PhD in a related, applicable field with 3 years of related work experience
Ability to think strategically and to make connections across disciplines within Computer Science and related fields
Experience and/or understanding of federal, state and campus research funding programs
Knowledge of University research funding programs and the relevant guidelines and procedures for submitting proposals to large funding opportunities
Experience in interdisciplinary multi-institutional research projects
Ability to work either independently or collaboratively as needed
Demonstrated ability to interact with both internal and external constituents
Prior experience with pink, red, gold, and white team review

The Visiting Assistant or Associate Director of Research position is a full-time, benefits-eligible academic professional position appointed on a 12-month service basis. This position may become a regular, permanent position at a later date depending on funding and programmatic need. The expected start date is as soon as possible after the closing date. Applicants may be interviewed before the closing date; however, no hiring decision will be made until after that date. Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

To apply for this position, please create your candidate profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu and upload your cover letter, resume, and names/contact information for three references as a single pdf file by September 2, 2019. Full consideration will be given to complete applications received by the closing date. For further information regarding application procedures, contact Denise Corray, decorray@illinois.edu, 217-300-3309.

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.

College Name or Administrative Unit:Engineering Category:6-Research Title:Visiting Assistant or Associate Director of Research - Department of Computer Science (113566) Open Date:06/10/2019 Close Date:09/09/2019 Organization Name:Computer Science

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Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Faculty

A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering.

Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

Academic Resources

Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.

Research

Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

The Arts

A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture.

Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/

As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities

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