Description

Detailed Duties: The James E. Clyburn University Transportation Center Executive Director will oversee the development of the organizational infrastructure (systems, internal and external websites, project management software, etc.) and supervise the personnel necessary to meet all of the University, SC DOT and US DOT requirements and grant deliverables. This position will handle all administrative requests made by the SCDOT and USDOT to the JECUTC Executive Director. He/she will oversee JECUTC communications and fiscal staff and administrative assistant. In addition, the director will coordinate work of academic faculty to ensure that each research project has clear objectives, milestones, and deliverables, and stays on track and budget. He/she will ensure that JECUTC research, reports and public documents are delivered on time and are of the highest quality. The JECUTC director will promote and grow JECUTC activities with external constituents beyond the US DOT, including potential research collaborators, state DOTs, engineering practitioners and the private sector. The JECUTC director will coordinate and facilitate advancing transportation expertise and technology by JECUTC researchers through research, education and workforce development, and technology transfer.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

o   Oversees the delivery of all private, state, and federal grant requirements.

o   Implements organizational technology (such as web-based project management software) to facilitate collaboration among all researchers, students, and industry partners.

o   Manages design and implementation of data collection to meet agency requirements (including non-engineering data such as diversity measures).

o   Manages non-technical project schedules, incorporates and tracks technical project schedules developed by researchers and institutional leads.

o   Manages non-technical project budgets in cooperation with financial manager and reports to Director.

o   Seeks commitments from existing industrial partners and DOT partners for research and education financial match funding, and to host undergraduate and graduate student research interns over the summer.

o   Forms partnerships with other regional and national UTCs in cooperation with Technical Leads to carry on research and technology transfer projects.

o   Plans and executes a JECUTC annual conference.

o   Work with the Academic Program Coordinator of the Master of Science Degree in Transportation to Teach graduate level course(s) when possible

Requirements

Appointment type:

The primary responsibility of this position is to serve as the Executive Director of the JECUTC.  The appointment can be a research faculty member depending on the qualifications of the applicant and the agreed job expectations at the time of hiring.  The Executive Director will report to the Dean of STEM-T. 

Required qualifications:

·         Ph.D. in Engineering or Science, preferably in transportation related fields, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Experience in transportation education and research or its equivalent in an academic or government setting, including research and fiscal administration, and
• A record of securing external funding from local, state, and federal agencies, industry, national laboratories, and other sources.

Preferred qualifications:

·     A record of peer-reviewed scholarship in the transportation field, and

·     Five or more years’ experience as a director or associate director of a university-based transportation center