Director of Analysis, Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Description

The Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University (CSET) is seeking applications for a Director of Analysis position. This leadership role, which combines organizational strategy, research oversight, and project & team management, will oversee CSET's research agenda, manage a diverse team of 25 researchers, and ensure high-quality, policy-relevant outputs. 

Ideal candidates are seasoned policy professionals with impeccable leadership, project and people management skills. They excel at identifying and prioritizing important policy questions, envisioning how CSET analyses might contribute to developing actionable recommendations, organizing people and resources to execute such analyses, and ensuring effective communication of the results to policymakers working at the nexus of technology and national security. They have a proven record of growing and developing junior researchers into effective policy analysts and analytic leaders.

CSET is a research organization focused on studying the security impacts of emerging technologies, supporting academic work in security and technology studies, and delivering nonpartisan analysis to technologists and policymakers. CSET currently focuses on artificial intelligence, advanced computing and biotechnology.

Important Note: Please visit CSET’s career page for more detailed information on role responsibilities and application instructions.

Responsibilities/Work Interactions

The Director of Analysis will report to the Center’s Executive Director and will be responsible for:

Organizational Leadership:

• Upholding CSET's mission, values, and culture with unwavering commitment, inspiring others through personal conduct.

• Collaborating with other members of leadership to help shape CSET’s organizational strategy and set key priorities.

• Using an appropriate blend of bottom-up initiative and top-down resourcing to set CSET’s research priorities and agenda in-line with our mission, culture, and intended audience (US Policymakers, key decision makers, funders, etc).

• Monitoring trends and developments in AI, ML, biotechnology, and national security policy; providing essential contextual insights to help inform research and organizational strategy.

• Supporting CSET’s fundraising and development goals; ensuring alignment between CSET’s mission and opportunities for funding, liaising with relevant funders, and contributing to solicitations for funding.

• Budget Oversight: Manage team resources within allocated budgets, ensuring alignment with CSET priorities; contributing to organizational financial planning

• Contributing to CSET’s organizational development, including internal working groups, seminars, and discussions; and supporting and mentoring colleagues.

• Additional duties as assigned.

Research and Project Management:

• Overseeing CSET’s lines of research (LORs); ensuring effective cross-matrix communication, collaboration, prioritization and project management within and across LORs, as well as across all of CSET to optimize resources and align projects with organizational goals. 

• Research quality control: oversight of research content, ensuring quality control, managing the external review process, and verifying recommendations and outputs are analytically and methodologically sound.

• Ensuring CSET’s analytic outputs are harmonious, rigorous, timely, digestible, and policy-relevant.

• Collaboratively approving research projects, ensuring they’re prioritized and resourced effectively, aligned with budgets and internal processes, and further CSET’s mission and goals.

• Coach and mentor researchers in general analytic, research and policy tradecraft.

Team Management: 

• Selecting, coaching, training, mentoring, and managing a large (25 ) team of entry to senior-level researchers and support staff from a variety of discipl