Executive Director
University of California, Los Angeles


Requisition Number: JPF04893
Recruitment Period
Open date: September 13th, 2019
Next review date: Friday, Sep 27, 2019 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Friday, Sep 27, 2019 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

Description

Established in 1998, the California Center for Population Research (CCPR) has since been a leading research center for research and training in demography. Since 2000, CCPR has been supported by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Research Infrastructure Grants and Research Training Grants. CCPR is comprised of over 100 faculty researchers and over 120 graduate students affiliates from the College of Letters and Science, School of Public Health, School of Public Affairs, Anderson Business School, School of Medicine and Education from Graduate Division. CCPR is dedicated to train the next generations of demographers; to conduct rigorous independent research on family demography, household dynamics and individual wellbeing; family change and diversity; population distribution, neighborhood dynamics and individual welfare; and reproductive and population health.

With fast pace growth, CCPR has incorporated several research centers: California Census Research Data Center, Center for Social Statistics, German Data Center, and California Policy Lab.

The Executive Director provides vision, creativity, and leadership to build the Center's future; to lead a team of talented and experienced researchers and staff; to engage committed advisory councils; to represent the Center to the public and policymakers, to advocate lawmakers for federal funding, and to oversee its annual faculty seed grant program, annual faculty course release program, annual core graduate students' research training programs, certificate program in population research, weekly seminar series, fundraising, and operations. The Executive Director has overall strategic and operational responsibilities for research programs, research space, staff, fundraising, and the mission. He/she must have the ability to work effectively within and create synergies with all sub-centers. The Executive Director must have the capacity to collaborate and engage with the broad spectrum of the Center's partners, faculty affiliates and the expertise and communication skills to serve as an effective representative of the organization, as well as providing leadership, institutional memory and consultation. The Executive Director will assist in writing grant proposals and research dissemination and outreach effort.

Report to Faculty Directors and work collaboratively with other research staff and faculty researchers, applicants must have a Master degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibility for the administration, management, and coordination of large research programs with broad and substantial complexity;

Evaluate and manage annual faculty seed grant program, faculty course release program, research fellowship program, and weekly seminar series servicing faculty and graduate students from an array of academic disciplines across professional schools, colleges within campus and other public agencies outside the University;

Develop, implement and manage new academic and research initiatives, in particular, the new certificate program in population research; Work with several campus units to obtain the approval of the certificate program before the launch;

Evaluate research training programs and develop and implement new components; Responsible for large-scale data collection and management;

Independently manage large-scale research grant proposal writing and submission coordination; assist annual progress report provided to funding agencies and responsible for research budget planning;

Work with Associate Vice Chancellor from the UCLA Capital Program to oversee all phases of research space design and renovation to fulfill all research sub-units' needs and harvest synergy among research centers and partners;

Research and explore federal and private foundation funding opportunities for faculty affiliates and facilitate disciplinary research collaboration;

Develop relationships with founding agencies and work with them to identify research needs and foster research collaboration among faculty researchers to expand Center's research projects portfolio;

Assist faculty PIs and personnel manager in hiring staff of CCPR; supervise CCPR graduate student researchers and staff to manage the data and produce research reports in conjunction with the faculty PIs;

Provide consultation and counsel on Center's direction and research agenda to Faculty Directors;

Develop strategies and carry out short and long-terms Center's goals;

Responsibility for fundraising and developing other resources necessary to support Center;

executive strategic and operational responsibilities for all research activities of the Center;

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. Women and underrepresented minorities are encouraged to apply. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action, policy see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy. http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct

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Job location
Los Angeles


To apply, please visit: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF04893


The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy, https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/DiscHarassAffirmAction


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