Associate Director of Research Services

EDUCATION REQUIREMENT:
A Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and related work experience.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
 

• Typically 5-7 years of experience supporting and managing related information technologies
• Demonstrated job-related experience with and/or commitment to diversity in the work/academic environment is required.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously within given time frames.
• A passion for and in-depth knowledge of academic research and research computing environments, including working knowledge of high-performance computing, research storage, high performance networking, research applications, and collaboration tools.  Must have strong proficiencies in at least one of these areas.
• Must have excellent analytical and communication skills, a strong customer service orientation and enthusiasm for the application of new technologies across a broad range of disciplines
• Excellent people skills and ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated success managing, developing and retaining high performance staff, recognizing individual talents
• Demonstrated success working with a broad range of constituencies in diverse technical and non-technical environments

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:

• Working experience supporting research computing or in-depth experience in a specific research discipline.
• Technically curious and self-motivated.
• Experience managing and leading staff and engagements in a hybrid/virtual setting.
• Experience with grant submissions to academic research funding organizations such as NSF, NIH, NASA, DOE, MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation
• Experience in budget development
• Experience evaluating new and emerging technologies and their potential applications in research computing.
• Experience supporting technology in a higher education setting.
• Experience working with regulatory regimes such as FISMA, HIPAA, and ITAR
• Experience with automation of electronic scientific workflows
• Experience developing and communicating complex technical solutions.

Additional information:

All interested applicants must submit a resume and cover letter (under submission relevant materials) that clearly address how they meet the listed required and desired qualifications of this position. P&S positions are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days. For questions or additional information, please contact Kim Kuebrich Yordi at kim-yordi@uiowa.edu. Successful candidates will be subject to a criminal background check and credential verification. Five professional references will be requested and required at a later step in the recruitment process.

Our mission is to create a welcoming and supportive workplace where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic selves and share ideas. We strive to cultivate a workforce culture of commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We embrace this commitment as mission-critical, not just compliance-driven, and embed it in hiring, incentive, retention, and career-development practices and initiatives.