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Executive Director, Research Data Strategy & Governance

Employer: Duke University
Location: VP Research and Innovation

Executive Administration Jobs: C-Level & Executive Directors
Administrative Jobs: Academic Affairs, Research Staff & Technicians
Employment Type: Full Time
Institution Type: Four-Year Institution

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Executive Director, Research Data Strategy & Governance

Occupational Summary

Duke University’s Office for Research and Innovation (OR&I) is responsible for supporting research administration, services, and compliance at Duke University. Responsibilities include working with the main IT service providers - Office of Information Technology (OIT) and Duke Health Technology Services (DHTS)- to provide secure, compliant infrastructure and services to support a variety of research needs.

The OR&I Research Data Strategy and Governance (DSG) Program Director will serve as the empowered official for determining and implementing strategies associated with research data governance, security, and compliance at Duke University. The DSG will report to the Vice President for Research and Innovation, with additional reporting to the VP of IT and CIO for Duke University. The role will be responsible for liaising with the research communities within the different schools, as well as the Institutional Review Boards, University IT Security Office, Office of Audit, Risk and Compliance, Office of Counsel, and the other various research administration offices.

The role focuses on developing and communicating resources to help researchers identify appropriate technology services to use based on Duke’s Data Classification Standard. Given the increasing focus from both public and private funding agencies on protecting research data, strategies will need to be developed to address emerging requirements such as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). The role requires excellent oral and writing skills, a collaborative and results-oriented attitude, and the curiosity required to stay up to date within a fast-paced field and environment. Prior expertise in research security is desirable.

Work Performed

Assess, on a continuing basis, the University’s ability and options to receive and manage research grants and contracts requiring compliance with federal data security rules (e.g., CMMC or Export Control) – including confidential, proprietary, classified or other information with contractual obligations. In collaboration with the security offices, develop and implement procedures, training, and awareness efforts to ensure faculty and staff are prepared and capable to handle confidential or regulated information.

In partnership with leadership, researchers, and campus stakeholders, develop and implement Duke’s research data policies and procedures, in alignment with external sponsor requirements. Create organization development and workforce planning strategies, frameworks, and tools.

Serve as Duke University’s subject matter expert for research data governance and security processes. Responsible for serving as the main point of contact for attestation, certification, or audit requirements.

Responsible for developing institutional communications to research faculty on emerging changes and requirements for research data security or compliance.

Liaise with the central IT offices (OIT and DHTS) to develop, document, and communicate IT services available for researchers. Work closely with the vendor community associated with our research infrastructure to foster the best possible service for Duke, to be aware of new opportunities, and to provide the most cost effective and efficient provision of services possible.

Working with researchers and research governance stakeholders, review proposed research projects for security and compliance needs, matching the projects with available services, or determining of new or one-off solutions are needed.

Liaise with federal and industry sponsors regarding funding arrangements for regulated or protected research.

Make recommendations to leadership regarding Duke’s resourcing needs to support regulated research data governance, compliance, and security. Prepare operational reports and analysis, setting forth progress, adverse trends and appropriate recommendations or conclusions.

Qualifications

Candidates should possess a bachelor’s degree with ten (10) or more years of directly relevant experience with research data governance. Experience working in or with information technology, research governance and/or information security teams is a must. It is preferred that candidates possess a master’s degree, CRA, CIA, or CPA.

Professional Skills:

Strong evidence of success as a leader and communicator.

Excellent verbal, written, and analytical skills.

Collaborative and solution oriented.

Able to work independently and in a team setting. Proficient in quantitative and qualitative analysis and data-driven decision-making.

Ability to work with a wide variety of stakeholders including research faculty, contracting professionals, legal counsel, sponsored program and research compliance professionals and senior leadership of the University

A thorough understanding of federal and other external requirements associated with data security and compliance.

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

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History

Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University. Duke Campus

As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.

Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

Mission Statement

Duke Science "James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'

“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth. Duke Meeting

“By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”

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