Associate Lab Director - ASL - Open Rank

Overview:

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry. GTRI's renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.   

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Project/Unit Description

The Applied Systems Laboratory (ASL) is an applied R&D laboratory conducting research in full life-cycle product development for military aviation mission systems for both manned and unmanned aircraft and missile defensive systems. ASL has a long history supporting our military and allies in maintaining operational relevancy to protect our nation with new and upgraded military solutions providing our military forces a decisive edge in an ever-changing warfighting environment. Research areas include human-engineering assessment and analysis; model-based system engineering to define system-of-system architectures, interfaces, and data models; multi-sensor fusion of defensive and offensive systems, automated threat countertactics, tactical data link integration, and mission planning. More recently, ASL has expanded their research to advance military applications of collaborative autonomous systems. The focus is application and maturation of intelligent autonomous unmanned aircraft system payloads (autonomy behaviors, situation awareness, resource management, sensors, and communication systems) into commercial air vehicles for operational deployment as fully autonomous teams or supporting manned-unmanned teaming.

Job Purpose

The Associate Lab Director assists the Lab Director in all aspects of the direction and operation of the Laboratory.  The Associate Lab Director is primarily responsible for the ongoing operations of the lab, including oversight of budgets, projects, and resources.  The Associate Lab Director also provides oversight for the administrative functions of the Lab, personnel matters within the Lab, compliance to policies and procedures, and provides the Lab interface to major GTRI support units, including Research Security, Accounting and Finance, Talent Management, and Sponsored Project Support.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures execution to budget targets and compliance to policies.
• Oversees Lab facilities, including facilities improvements decisions, space usage decisions, and overhead budgets.
• Develops operational plans and other Lab-level plans and documents.
• Acts as a Surrogate for the Laboratory Director for meetings and other Laboratory business.
• Contributes to hiring decisions and assist with the hiring process. 
• Sustains Lab’s research enterprise.
• Identify new funding initiatives and opportunities.
• Cultivate and create strategic alliances with potential external sponsors.
• Mentors' lab research staff.
• Facilitates cross-lab solutions to operational issues both through participation in special working groups and in an ad hoc manner.
• Develops strategies for recruiting and retention.
• Promotes Lab’s mission and capabilities to government and industry research sponsors, academic colleagues and peers, and government officials and policymakers.
• Assists and advises researchers with proposal development and submission as funding opportunities arise.

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Significant experience managing (or supporting management of) large programs for the Department of Defense in full life-cycle product developme