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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, a unit within the Social Science Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University is a nationally recognized applied research center focused on improving the health and well-being of military service members, veterans, and their families. We are currently a team of approximately 55 full-time research faculty, program managers, and research and support staff. The Clearinghouse is part of The Pennsylvania State University, a leading public land grant institution known for its world-class research, teaching, and outreach.

We seek to hire an Associate Director (Research Project Manager), whose focus will be on strategic operations, operational management, human resource management, and supervision of various staff. The Associate Director is also a member of the Clearinghouse leadership team. As such, this position will have a significant impact on the growth, sustainability, efficiency of the efforts of staff, and the overall success of the Clearinghouse.

This position is key in ensuring that the Clearinghouse meets current and future needs that allows the organization to grow and flourish. It will manage the talent acquisition process, analyze trends in compensation, facilitate problem solving, effectively communicate across the unit and the university. This position will partner with other human resource professionals and key stakeholders to develop, propose, and implement process improvements and actively participate in the planning, coordination, and execution of strategic initiatives at the Clearinghouse. It will also develop an employee-oriented culture that emphasizes collaboration, quality, continuous improvement, and high performance to achieve results.

Responsibilities:  The individual in this position will have the following responsibilities:

Strategic Operations

• Contribute to the strategic plan by providing data-driven insights to inform overall strategic and operational decision making
• Ensure that strategic initiatives are executed timely and with high quality
• Work with leadership team to ensure that the Clearinghouse is appropriately staffed for operational and research projects
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the unit
• Establish unit policies and procedures to guide unit activities
• Ensure unit compliance with university policies, rules, and regulations related to research, finance, information technology, and human resources
• Identify inefficiencies in existing proce