SSTI Job Corner

The following positions are available:

Program Director, Strategic Alliances, National Capital Region, Virginia Tech Office of Economic Development 12/15/10
Group Manager for Research, Community Innovation Services, Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute 12/10/10

You can find additional job postings related to the TBED field at:

The Association of University Technology Managers
http://www.autm.net/directory/job_list.cfm

The Council for Community and Economic Research
http://www.accra.org/jobs.asp

National Business Incubation Association
http://www.nbia.org/classifieds/index.php

Virginia Tech Office of Economic Development
Program Director, Strategic Alliances, National Capital Region

Virginia Tech is a comprehensive, innovative research university with more than $400 million research

expenditures in 2009 and off-campus research and educational facilities in regions around Virginia. The newest of these regional facilities will be the Virginia Tech Ballston Center, a seven-story, 144,000 square foot, LEED certified facility currently under construction in Arlington, Virginia. Key research programs planned for the facility will include informatics and cyber-security. Economic development is an important objective of this effort and the university is currently seeking a program director for strategic alliances in the National Capital Region (NCR). This individual will be responsible for building a collaborative program of applied research between university faculty, and corporate and government sponsors. This position, reporting to the director of the Office of Economic Development, is a restricted calendar year, administrative and professional faculty appointment.

To view the complete job description, please go to www.jobs.vt.edu Posting #0100883. Applicants must complete the online faculty application and submit a cover letter, resume, list of three references, and transcript as attachments to that application. For full consideration, candidates are encouraged to apply by the review date of January 8, 2011.

Virginia Tech has a strong commitment to the principle of diversity, and in that spirit seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women, minorities, veterans, and people with disabilities. Individuals with disabilities desiring accommodations in the application process should notify the hiring department by the application deadline.

Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute
Group Manager for Research, Community Innovation Services

The Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2) Community Innovation Services team supports communities with economic and community development research, analysis and planning. Projects range from strategic planning to workforce analysis, from fiscal impact analysis of new or expanding firms to sustainable development strategies for communities of all sizes. The group manager is responsible for the successful completion of all funded projects, for overseeing and advising a team of high-performing project managers, and assigning projects to individual team members within CIS. The primary responsibility of this position is business development for the group. Business development includes (1) defining customers/markets, (2) defining research focus areas, (3) deriving a marketing strategy, (4) managing proposal development, and (5) successfully securing contracts.

Qualifications

Basic Education:
Master's degree in economics, city and regional planning, public policy, or related field (or any combination of education and experience).

Preferred Education:
Ph.D. in economics, city and regional planning, public policy, or related field.

Experience:
Twelve or more years of relevant and/or related experience. CEcD, EDFP, or AICP designation/certification preferred.

To apply go to http://careers.gatech.edu.