Assistant Director – PSERC

85928BR

Campus: Tempe

Asst Director

Job Description

ASU’s multi-disciplinary Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC), an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering / School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, is seeking to fill the Assistant Director position with an energetic, multi-talented, hands-on administrator who can support the PSERC Director in managing a successful, dynamic industry-university collaborative center with responsibilities from performing and overseeing day-to-day operations to marketing PSERC to industry.  The Assistant Director reports to the PSERC Director and supports the collaborative activities of PSERC.

The Assistant Director will coordinate the administrative activities of PSERC, support the Director in supervision of administrative staff, and serve as a liaison between the Director and the PSERC site directors, member companies, funding agencies, and the various industry, university, and professional communities in which PSERC has a presence. The Assistant Director will be responsible for maintaining positive and industry member relationships while encouraging and facilitating growth in the number of members as well as the research administration activities including reporting research progress to industry members; administering the research solicitation, proposal review, and selection process; overseeing project reporting; and federal agency post-award administration in cooperation with ASU research management personnel. A key responsibility in this position is the communications of PSERC events, publications, and accomplishments to all key PSERC constituencies. The Asst. Director will lead the planning for and implementation of PSERC industry-university meetings, retreats, webinars and tutorials, student job fairs, and workshops; and will be responsible for financial management, including budgeting, reporting, and member invoicing.

Department Name

Sch Elect Comptr & Energy Engr

Full-Time/Part-Time

Full-Time

Grant Funded Position

This is a grant funded position. Continuation is contingent on future grant funding.

Salary Range

$55,000 – $90,000 per year; DOE

Close Date

01-December-2022

Essential Duties

• Member Relations: Communicating to build PSERC’s image among PSERC members, anticipating needs, responding to requests, justifying continued membership, conducting site visits, engaging members in PSERC projects, encouraging attendance at PSERC events.
• Membership Marketing: Preparing documents, outreach material, employing website and other forms of communication, contacting potential members identified by PSERC industry and university members, communicating PSERC’s value
• Financial Management: Budgeting, projecting expenditures, accounting, and reporting.
• Operations: Daily office operations, computing and information systems, word processing, excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint, and LaTex (preferred, not required).
• Communications:  Ability to communicate to industry in oral and written forms, document design and production, editing and formatting, presentation software.
• Event Management: contracting in compliance with ASU requirements, planning, budgeting, communications/marketing, contacting speakers, overseeing registration system, coordinating with local hosts, handout preparation and copying, on-site event management, expense payments, developing planning guide
• Management of PSERC Industry-Supported Research Projects: Solicitation preparation and distribution, proposal collection, conducting review process, summarizing reviews, facilitating director and executive committee recommendation decision-making, communicating with industry
• Personnel Management: Supervision and development of center administrative personnel in compliance with university personnel regulations, coordinating with PSERC staff in communicating with ASU management system
• Information Systems Management: Developing and overseeing of management information system and report generation process (principally reports to industry members, sponsoring agencies, and the public at-large), and responding to requests with accurate and timely information in format required.
• Website: Maintaining the PSERC website, enhancing the website in collaboration with PSERC’s webmaster
• Webinars: Understanding the web platform operation, preparing presenters, assuring technical support, serving as facilitator when needed
• Governance: Serve as an information resource on PSERC’s industry agreements, university memorandum of understanding, bylaws, and operations manual.
• Liaison with all of PSERC’s constituencies (industry, government, faculty, and students): Guardianship of university, PSERC governance, and agency system requirements (federal regulations, proposal processing, etc.).

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in a field appropriate to the area of assignment AND six (6) years of related administrative experience, which includes three (3) years of supervisory experience; OR, Ten (10) years of related administrative experience, which includes three (3) years of supervisory experience; OR, Any equivalent combination of education and/or experience from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Desired Qualifications

• Evidence of a  Master’s or PhD degree in related field preferred (example areas: power systems, power electronics, energy systems, sustainability, storage, energy economics and policy, resilience, the future of green hydrogen and interplay with grid).
• Experience with communications and public relations; administration; personnel supervision
• Demonstrated experience in:
  • Higher Education administration
  • Marketing to industry
  • Proposal preparation
  • Maintaining effective working relationships
  • Organizational skills and project management
  • Working with diverse constituencies
  • Crisis management
  • Working with confidential information
• Evidence of strategic, analytical, conceptual and communications skills
• Experience in being collaborative, adaptable, pragmatic and an effective problem solver.

Working Environment

• Use office equipment including a computer, keyboard, manipulates computer mouse, telephone, printer, fax, and copier
• Maintain databases and developing reports
• Schedule appointments and maintain calendar
• Communicate to perform essential functions
• Regular activities require ability to quickly change priorities which may include and/or subject to resolution of conflicts, problem solving, and teamwork

Department Statement

The School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering(ECEE)bringstogetheruniversityfaculty,students,and companiesto develop collaborative relationships and solutions.Our degree programs in ElectricalEngineering are widelyrecognized andofferopportunities forstudentsto participate in research.Ourresearcheffortsarealignedwith nationaland internationaleffortstoaddressworldwidechallengesin energyproduction anddistribution, healthcare technology and delivery,sustainabledevelopmentandeconomicgrowth,communicationstechnology and informationmanagement,andglobalsecurity.

The mission of PSERC is to use research and education to empower minds to engineer the future electric energy system. PSERC works to ensure: (1) a sustainable, clean, secure, resilient, and adaptable electric power sector serving society, (2) a new generation of educated technical professionals in energy systems, (3) critical support for decision-makers on critical energy policy issues, (4) sustained, quality university programs in energy systems, and (5) a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment.

PSERCisthelargest NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. PSERCis a partnershipamongASU, Colorado School of Mines, Cornell Univ., George Institute of Technology, Howard Univ., Iowa State Univ., Michigan Tech Univ., Texas A&M Univ., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Washington State Univ., and Wichita State Univ. The PSERC’s website is http://www.pserc.org . PSERC has 24 members from industry and government, both domestic and international. PSERC has graduated from its NSF financially supported center phase to become fully industry supported as a center with added federal funding, from sources such as the Department of Energy or NSF, supporting targeted projects.

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Instructions to Apply

Application deadline is 3:00PM Arizona time on the date indicated.

Please include all employment information in month/year format (e.g., 6/88 to 8/94), job title, job duties and name of employer for each position.

Resume should clearly illustrate how prior knowledge and experience meets the Minimum and Desired qualifications of this position.

ASU does not pay for travel expenses associated with interviews, unless otherwise indicated.

Only electronic applications are accepted for this position.

IMPORTANT NOTE: What is the meaning of “equivalent combination” in the minimum qualifications? It means one year of higher education or 24 credit hours, is equal to one year of experience. For example, a four year Bachelor’s degree is equal to four years of experience.