Associate Dean Research and Innovation

• $95,000+ commensurate with discipline and experience for 9-month contract, plus additional administrative stipend of $7,500 and summer salary, Exempt
• 40 hours per week
• This position will work onsite at UND Grand Forks, ND campus

The College of Education & Human Development (CEHD) invites applications for a tenured faculty member at the rank of Professor to serve as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, beginning July 1, 2027. Reporting directly to the Dean and serving as a member of CEHD's leadership team, the Associate Dean provides strategic and operational leadership for CEHD's research, scholarship, innovation, external funding, research administration and infrastructure, centers and institutes, and research impact.

The Associate Dean will play a central role in advancing CEHD's research enterprise within the context of the University of North Dakota's R1 research mission. Working across departments, disciplines, centers, and external partnerships, the Associate Dean will help create the conditions for ambitious ideas to develop into sustained programs of research, scholarship, innovation, and impact.

This position requires a leader who can recognize opportunities across traditional academic boundaries, connect people and resources, and strengthen the systems that support research. CEHD faculty, staff, and students engage in a broad range of disciplinary, interdisciplinary, methodological, and community-engaged scholarship across education, human development, behavioral and mental health, movement and health sciences, learning and technology, and related fields. The Associate Dean will support this breadth while helping faculty and research teams pursue increasingly significant external funding, collaboration, visibility, and scholarly impact.

• Lead development and implementation of a College-wide research and innovation strategy in partnership with the Dean, faculty, academic leaders, research staff, centers, and University partners.
• Identify and advance areas of research strength and emerging opportunity where CEHD has potential for distinctive regional, national, or international impact.
• Strengthen CEHD’s capacity to secure external funding, including large-scale, interdisciplinary, multi-investigator, training, center-level, and institutional awards.
• Foster interdisciplinary research teams and connect faculty with collaborators, funding opportunities, research infrastructure, and institutional resources.
• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for College-level sponsored research support, research administration, research investments, and use of research-related resources.
• Provide strategic coordination and oversight of CEHD centers, institutes, laboratories, and research initiatives, supporting their growth, sustainability, collaboration, and alignment with College priorities.
• Identify research infrastructure, staffing, technology, space, and other investments needed to strengthen CEHD’s research capacity and advise the Dean regarding strategic allocation of resources.
• Advance the translation and application of CEHD research and scholarship through partnerships with schools, healthcare organizations, communities, government, industry, tribal nations and communities, foundations, and other external partners.
• Foster a collaborative research culture that supports faculty research development, interdisciplinary scholarship, student engagement in research, and recognition and visibility of research accomplishments.
• Build relationships with funding agencies, foundations, research organizations, governmental entities, advancement partners, and other organizations that can strengthen CEHD’s research enterprise.
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