Associate Director

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Job date: 2014-09-30
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Company : University of Illinois 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Associate Director, NIH Big Data Center of Excellence University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute for Genomic Biology USA-Illinois-Urbana

The Associate Director will be responsible for overseeing and coordinating administrative activities for one of the first NIH Big Data Centers of Excellence (BDCE) in the country. Reporting to the Executive Director, responsibilities include working closely with and supporting individual faculty on all financial, human resource and reporting matters. The Associate Director will oversee the day to day operation of BDCE, including oversight of BDCE budgets and coordination of the management structure. S/he will provide the Executive Director with regular updates on the budget and on the state of all BDCE projects, in close coordination with the IGB and CSL Business Offices, Communications Groups and IT Groups, which will have dotted line reporting relationships to the Associate Director. The Associate Director will be responsible for organizing meetings of the governing bodies and committees of BDCE (Steering Committee, Strategic Planning Committee, External Advisory Committee, etc.), and for preparing reports to BDCE funding bodies. S/he will also have primary responsibility for organizing training and consortium-level activities for BDCE. The Associate Director will serve as a non-voting member of the BDCE Steering Committee.
A M.S. in Computer Science, Life Sciences or a related field is required, with a Ph.D. preferred. Experience working with biologists, computer engineers and computer scientists in a collaborative setting is required. Experience managing the administration of a large multidisciplinary program is preferred. Experience working in University grant and budget administration would be a plus. The position requires strong organizational skills, excellent command of office productivity tools. facility with numbers, and attention to detail.


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