JOB SUMMARY

Augusta University (AU) seeks to hire an Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation (EVPRI). Critical to achieving the ambitions of AU, a national search is underway to recruit an individual to serve as their next Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation. Reporting directly to the President of Augusta University, the EVPRI serves as Augusta University’s Chief Research Officer. This key executive leader is responsible for helping establish, shape, and drive the university’s overarching research strategy and fostering a culture of innovation and research translation. The role involves overseeing the development and implementation of research initiatives, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, securing funding, spearheading research translation to impact society through entrepreneurship, and enhancing the university’s research profile nationally and internationally. This position is considered administrative faculty with rank. Candidates must be eligible for a faculty appointment at the Professor level. The tenure status (on tenure track, tenure upon appointment, or not on tenure track) will be determined based on the qualifications of the final candidate and will be confirmed in the final offer along with position expectations. Please see Augusta University Promotion and Tenure website link in the Shift/Salary/Benefits section of this posting.Augusta University (AU) seeks to hire an Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation (EVPRI). Critical to achieving the ambitions of AU, a national search is underway to recruit an individual to serve as their next Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation. Reporting directly to the President of Augusta University, the EVPRI serves as Augusta University’s Chief Research Officer. This key executive leader is responsible for helping establish, shape, and drive the university’s overarching research strategy and fostering a culture of innovation and research translation. The role involves overseeing the development and implementation of research initiatives, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, securing funding, spearheading research translation to impact society through entrepreneurship, and enhancing the university’s research profile nationally and internationally. This position is considered administrative faculty with rank. Candidates must be eligible for a faculty appointment at the Professor level. The tenure status (on tenure track, tenure upon appointment, or not on tenure track) will be determined based on the qualifications of the final candidate and will be confirmed in the final offer along with position expectations. Please see Augusta University Promotion and Tenure website link in the Shift/Salary/Benefits section of this posting.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Qualified candidates will hold a PhD, MD, MD/PhD or equivalent from an accredited institution in their subspecialty and/or related field. Candidates must be eligible for a faculty appointment at the Professor level at Augusta University.
Professor- Senior level career faculty member with at least five years at the rank of Associate Professor or comparable training, background, and experience. Per Board of Regents (BOR) policy, Professors must have a terminal degree.

Required faculty employment qualifications for all USG institutions and all academic ranks within these institutions shall be:

• Consistent with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC)’s requirements for institutional accreditation;
• Evidence of ability as a teacher;
• Evidence of activity as a scholar and ability in all other duties assigned;
• Successful experience (which will necessarily be waived for those just entering the academic profession who meet all other requirements);
• A track record of industry collaboration, entrepreneurship and collaboration with venture capital funding sources and,
• Desirable personal qualities judged on the basis of personal interview, complete biographical data, and recommendations.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate will be a bold and inspirational leader with intellectual breadth, strong interpersonal skills, demonstrated expertise in research-driven programs and policies, experience developing and leveraging partnerships, and success leading complex teams and/or organizations. Direct work with federal and other funding agencies is desirable. Candidates must have a history of demonstrated success in obtaining extramural funding to support research. National exposure to, experience in, and/or a successful record of commercializing research and intellectual property into the private sector are also desirable. They will have experience and success in a leadership role that fostered research education and training for health science students, graduate students, GME trainees, and/or junior faculty.

ABOUT US

Augusta University is Georgia’s innovation center for education and health care, training the next generation of innovators, leaders, and healthcare providers in classrooms and clinics on four campuses in Augusta and locations across the state. More than 10,500 students choose Augusta for educational opportunities at the center of Georgia’s cybersecurity hub and experiential learning that blends arts and application, humanities, and the health sciences. Augusta is home to Georgia’s only public academic health center, where groundbreaking research is creating a healthier, more prosperous Georgia, and world-class clinicians are bringing the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today. Our mission and values make Augusta University an institution like no other.
The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found online at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18personnelconduct.
Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found online at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The EVPRI provides intellectual, strategic, and visionary leadership for AU’s research enterprise. In this highly visible role, the successful candidate will collaboratively lead the research enterprise, developing new programs to extend the reach and impact of AU research, building innovative partnerships to advance research, leading research translation and entrepreneurial initiatives and raising the national standing of AU to an R1 research university. The EVPRI develops plans for research, research translation, and entrepreneurship that guide AU to achieve these goals. A unique opportunity for the EVPRI is the continued development of the newly formed Wellstar-MCG Health. Additionally, the EVPRI will strengthen links with external partners such as federal funding agencies and state funding agencies such as the Georgia Research Alliance, as well as local and national industry partners and new companies established through effective research translation regionally, statewide, nationally and internationally, by articulating and implementing the overall vision for stakeholders to promote research across the fertile ground of AU’s 11 colleges and schools and 14 dedicated research centers and institutes.