Senior Director of Research Services

Education Requirement:
A Bachelor’s degree. An equivalent combination of education and related experience may also serve to meet these minimum requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• Technology experience (typically 10+ years) including management education or experience.
• Demonstrated and considerable experience successfully leading a technology team or organization.
• 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.
• A strong customer service orientation and enthusiasm for the application of technology across a broad range of disciplines.
• Demonstrated and considerable experience successfully managing, developing, and retaining staff.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously within given time frames.
• Excellent people skills and ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with diverse technical and non-technical staff.
• Experience managing budgets
• Demonstrated job-related experience with and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the work/academic environment.

Desired Qualifications:

• An advanced degree.
• Experience with grant submissions to academic research funding organizations such as NSF, NIH, NASA, DOE, MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation.
• Deep understanding of new computing, software, and storage practices for university research efforts. For example, areas of mastery could include current large-cluster computing practices, advanced visualization, and analytics, or data and informatics practices.
• In-depth experience in a specific research discipline.
• Experience working in a healthcare setting and/or with clinical or medical research.
• Experience working with regulatory regimes such as FISMA, HIPAA, and ITAR.
• Experience supporting technology in a higher educational setting.

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. Successful candidates will be subject to a criminal background check and education verification. 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.