NCSA/Assistant Director #10478

Persistent Infrastructure Directorate

Assistant Director

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign has one Assistant Director position available.
This position is expected to provide support, and in some cases have primary
responsibility for the day to day management needs of the Persistent
Infrastructure (PI) directorate allowing the Associate Director of PI to
focus on strategic activities. In some cases, this position will have
direct involvement in some of these activities potentially including
planning for NCSA and the PI directorate; promoting services, activities,
and partnerships on a national and international scale; developing funding
resources for the advancement of NCSA and PI directorate goals; creating new
and extend existing partnerships that advance NCSA’s mission of designing,
building, deploying national-scale cyberinfrastructure to advance science
and engineering in the United States.

PI is responsible for the acquisition, installation, configuration,
administration, maintenance, operation, and support of production hardware
and software systems and services for the NCSA national user community.
These systems range from the desktop to the supercomputers, staff user
productivity software to high performance scientific applications, and both
local area and wide area networking services. Sources for these production
systems may be commercial vendors, external research and development
activities, or internal development and integration as driven by
relationships with NCSA’s partnering scientific communities.

• B.S. degree (M.S. or Ph.D. preferred) in Engineering, Computer
Science, or a related field. Alternative baccalaureate degree fields will
be considered/accepted if accompanied by equivalent experience (depending on
nature and depth of experience as it relates to current NCSA technologies).
• Five years of scientific research in a computational environment.
• Successful record of acquiring funds from external sources for
research
• Demonstrated experience in technical program management with a
minimum of 7 years of experience.
• Knowledge necessary to write funding proposals and understand
operations of federal, state and private funding agencies.
• Proven ability to manage and allocate budgets and human resources.
• Highly specialized knowledge of visualization, high performance
computing and communications and information technologies.

This is an academic professional position at NCSA and is a 12-month, 100%-
time appointment with regular University benefits. Salary commensurate with
experience. Starting date as soon as possible after the closing date of the
search.

To ensure full consideration, please send letter of application, resume, and
three letters of reference referencing Search #10478, by email (preferably)
conducted before the closing date, although no hiring decisions will be made
until after the search has closed.

Send hard copy to: NCSA Human Resources, search #10478
1008 NCSA Building
1205 W. Clark St.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
217/333-6085


The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
Employer.