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Inaugural Director, Alliance for Integrative Approaches to Extreme Environmental Events
Hours | Full-time |
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Location | Norman, OK Norman, Oklahoma |
About this job
Inaugural Director, Alliance
for Integrative Approaches to Extreme Environmental
Events
The Position. The Alliance for Integrative
Approaches to Extreme Environmental Events invites nominations and
applications for a dynamic, visionary leader to serve as its
inaugural Director. Reporting to the Alliance Steering Committee,
the full-time Director is the chief executive of the Alliance and
thus has overall responsibility for its success. This includes but
is not limited to strategic planning, program execution, budget
formulation, fiduciary management, development and stewardship of
partnerships with a broad array of stakeholders including academic
institutions, federal agencies, private donors, for-profit
corporations, and non-profit foundations. The Director will oversee
an initially small leadership team comprising a Director of
Community Support and Communications, a Director of Research
Program Development, and administrative and technical support
staff.
Candidate Qualifications. The successful candidate
will have demonstrated some combination of visionary leadership and
management competence at a senior level, with characteristics that
include but are not limited to: demonstrated understanding of the
value of, and an ability to build and steward,
inter/multi-disciplinary teams for addressing complex problems in
topic areas relevant to Alliance activities (see below); experience
building relationships and partnerships, and acquiring and managing
financial resources, from both the public and private sectors;
experience mobilizing people toward accomplishing a shared vision
and set of goals; ability to guide and develop the capabilities of
individuals and manage a core leadership team; knowledge of working
with and/or serving under governing boards; strong interpersonal
skills and collegiality; and demonstrated evidence of effective
communication skills across a diverse array of stakeholders.
Additional qualifications include a doctoral degree or equivalent
experience beyond the highest degree, a track record of
accomplishments and national/international recognition as a scholar
or practitioner, and/or outstanding record of professional
achievement commensurate with the position. Salary will be
commensurate with qualifications.
About the Alliance. The Alliance for Integrative
Approaches to Extreme Environmental Events is an informal
public-private partnership comprising researchers from social,
behavioral and economic science (SBES) disciplines, engineers,
mathematicians and technologists, research and operational
meteorologists, emergency managers, the media, and other strategic
partners including Federal agencies, non-profit organizations,
academic institutions, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and the
private sector. Funded initially by a $3 million private gift, the
goal of the Alliance is threefold: first, to help members of the
aforementioned broad community overcome obstacles to meaningful
interaction so that progress can be made on dealing with extreme
environmental events holistically, and collaboratively, in their
full complexity utilizing all resources available; second, to
facilitate interdisciplinary research, and third to support the
associated transition of research outcomes to practice – including
rapid technology prototyping and insertion – in ways that advance
the Nation's agenda to substantially reduce societal harm from
extreme environmental events. Additional information about the
Alliance, including the Concept, Organization and Start-Up Plan,
can be found at http://alliance.ou.edu.
Director Position Structure. From inception, the
Alliance has been structured as an informal framework for
facilitating community success, nationally and internationally, in
addressing extreme environmental event challenges rather than an
organization having a physical location. Consequently, reflecting
this geographic span, the Alliance leadership team likely will be
physically distributed, with considerable flexibility regarding
institutional affiliation. In cases where the successful Director
wishes to maintain their current affiliation and thus associated
fringe benefits and support resources, for example, funding for the
position, and for support, will be transferred to that
organization. If the Director is unaffiliated or wishes to change
affiliations or even relocate, such will be accommodated by the
University of Oklahoma, which serves as the Alliance fiscal agent.
Additional scenarios are possible and will be negotiated as
appropriate.
Application and Selection Process. Confidential
review of nominations, indications of interest, and applications
for Alliance Director will begin 15 September 2017 and continue
until the position is filled. Candidates are invited to submit (1)
a letter of application describing their capabilities and
demonstrating how they fulfill each of the qualifications noted
above, along with (2) a detailed curriculum vitae and (3) the names
of five references who will be contacted only upon approval from
the applicant. Applications from minorities, women, persons with
disabilities, and veterans are specifically encouraged. The
Alliance Steering Committee (http://alliance.ou.edu/leadership)
will conduct the interviews and select the Director.
Electronic submission of all materials in PDF format is
required via By Committee/Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/44559
Inquiries. Inquiries regarding the search should
be directed to the search committee co-chairs:
Dr. Dennis Wenger, Chair
Alliance Steering Committee
denniswenger0@gmail.com
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Dr. Joe Trainor, Vice-Chair
Alliance Steering Committee
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