AAU Federal Relations Directorship Open

The Association of American Universities (AAU) seeks qualified candidates to fill the position of director of federal relations. Reporting to the AAU president, the position supervises the federal relations activities of the association staff, including AAU's efforts to promote investments in basic research and graduate education in NIH, NSF, NASA, the Departments of Defense, Education, Energy, and Homeland Security, as well as student aid in the Department of Education and humanities investments made by NEH.

The director is specifically responsible for AAU’s NIH advocacy, including engaging with Congress and the Executive Branch on the NIH budget and on biomedical research policy issues. He or she will work closely with biomedical research advocacy partners, appropriations subcommittee staff, and university officials to accomplish biomedical research funding and policy objectives. In addition, the position shares responsibility for indirect cost and other research policy issues, including merit review, technology transfer and misconduct in science.

Supervising federal relations activities of a team of professional and administrative staff members, the director also is responsible for staff support for groups of AAU presidents and chancellors as necessary, including the AAU Costs of Research Committee, and for groups of campus research, federal relations and technology transfer officers.

Applications should be submitted to Barry Toiv, AAU Director of Communications and Public Affairs and Search Committee Chair, by Oct. 15, 2003. More information is available at: http://www.aau.edu