Associate Dean of Research - SON

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive research strategy for the SON.
• Facilitate fundable and sustainable research and scholarship programs for the school; pursue diverse external funding sources that support the research and scholarship mission.
• Cultivate internal and external research partnerships to promote interdisciplinary, team-based science and scholarship.
• Work with faculty to identify and refine research focus areas aligned with current and emerging funding opportunities.
• Serve as a consultant to faculty on funding opportunities, research proposal development, study methodology and methods, interpretation of findings, and dissemination of findings.
• Oversee the operations of the Office of Grants and Research.
• Ensure appropriate research administration, faculty and staff effort aligns appropriately with research funding and institutional expectations, integrity of research data and associated electronic databases and safeguarding research-related physical assets and property.
• Coordinate staff requirements for implementing research at the school.
• Supervise and evaluate OGR staff and research faculty.
• Manage the OGR budget, including budget forecasting, allocation, monitoring financial status of research projects, and tracking research related outcomes.
• Collaborate with the Faculty Research Committee on intramural funding decisions.
• Prepare reports as required by the school and university administration, and external agencies.

Required Qualifications

• PhD in nursing or other health-related field.
• Experience in nursing and/or the health sciences with a record of continuous extramural funding, pre-award and post-award grant management, grant reviewer; consistent with expectations for tenure.
• Experience in research/scholarship dissemination.
• Experience advising and mentoring faculty and doctoral students.

Preferred Qualifications

• Conducting research involving the nursing discipline.
• Administrative and financial management.
• Research leadership/service at the national and/or international level.