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Nominations and applications are invited for the position of Executive Director of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech. The Executive Director will lead and direct the promotion and positioning of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute as a premier trandisciplinary life sciences institute with research strengths in computational, molecular and systems biology, structural biology, infectious disease and cancer research, cyberinfrastructure for the life sciences, physics, complexity research, and policy informatics. The Institute was founded in 2000 and has quickly grown to 240 research and administrative personnel occupying more than 140,000 square feet of state-of-the-art research facilities at three sites: on the Virginia Tech campus, at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center (off-campus) and in Alexandria, Virginia, in the National Capital Region. The Institute has a combined annual operating and extramural research budget of more than $27 million, and is an organizational unit of Virginia Tech.

The Executive Director will represent the Institute's interests at the executive level within the university, with key directors or division officers at leading federal funding agencies, with corporate partners, and with private foundations. The Executive Director will report to the university president or designee; will interact with, respond to, and support the Institute's Policy Advisory Board and Scientific Advisory Board; and will be responsible for overseeing the development and execution of the Institute's strategic plan in support of the university's strategic plan.

Responsibilities

• Oversees the development of a recruiting strategy for executive personnel and key researchers.
• Secures private, federal, state and corporate funding and support for the furtherance of the Institute's research, education, and outreach missions, consistent with the university's and the Institute's long range plans.
• Develops internal research resources that enable successful competition for high visibility, large-scale and highly complex research proposals in key research areas.
• Enables a creative research environment responsive to key granting agency research directions and to further collaborative research goals on campus.
• Advises university executive leaders of future research directions that will impact the university's research goals.
• Ultimately responsible for budget and operations.

• Experience in leading and managing a research organization in a collegial or institutional environment as a scientific program director, project director, or principal investigator.
• Significant post-doctoral or professional research experience in relevant scientific field(s).
• Credentials consistent for appointment to rank of Professor.
• Record of high-quality peer-reviewed publications and excellent track record of extramural funding from federal and state agencies, private foundations and/or corporations.
• Creativity, high motivation, and leadership capabilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Sound project management and laboratory management skills, if appropriate.
• Excellent leadership in grantsmanship at an institutional level.

• Experience in leading and developing a collaborative environment or culture in transdisciplinary research.
• Ph.D. in Biology, Biochemistry or other Life Sciences discipline; Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics or other computational science discipline; with recognition of advanced scientific achievement.

Dr. Paul Knox
Interim Director,
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
University Distinguished Professor
phone: (540) 231-2582; email: knox@vt.edu

To apply, visit www.jobs.vt.edu and search by posting number 090199
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