Senior AVP Research and Innovation
Listed on 2026-10-05
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Research/Development
Research Scientist, Research Analyst, Market Research, Academic
Posting Details Security Sensitive Position?
Yes
Hours of Work8:00 AM - 5:00 PM M-F
Posting NumberTSU
203794
Senior AVP Research and Innovation
Grant Titlen/a
Job Description Summary / TWC SummaryThe Senior Associate Vice President for Research & Innovation (SAVP
-R&I) serves as a senior member of the university’s research leadership team and provides strategic, operational, and administrative leadership for the institution’s research and innovation enterprise. The position supports the Vice President for Research & Innovation in developing and executing the university’s research strategy, strengthening sponsored researchactivity, expanding external funding, advancing interdisciplinary research, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship, and enhancing the university’s national research profile.
The SAVP
-R&I provides leadership across research development,sponsored programs, research administration, compliance, research infrastructure, faculty research development, technology and innovation initiatives, strategic partnerships, and institutional research priorities. The position works closely with academic deans, department chairs,faculty, research center directors, external partners, government agencies, foundations,corporations, and other stakeholders to increase the scale, competitiveness, and impact ofthe university’s research portfolio.
The incumbent will play a critical role in advancing institutional priorities associated with achieving and sustaining Texas University Fund ( TUF ) eligibility and R1-level research activity and competitiveness. The position will strengthen the University’sresearch infrastructure, expand extramural funding opportunities, enhance institutional research capacity, and foster an environment that promotes high-impact scholarship, innovation, and research excellence.
- Assist the Vice President for Research & Innovation in developing and implementing the university’s comprehensive research and innovation strategy.
- Translate institutional research priorities into measurable goals, initiatives, performance indicators, and implementation plans.
- Provide executive leadership for strategic research initiative sand university-wide research programs.
- Identify opportunities to increase the university’s researchexpenditures, sponsored funding, scholarly productivity, patents,commercialization, and research impact.
- Support institutional efforts to achieve and sustain Texas University Fund and R1-level research activity and national research competitiveness.
- Serve as a senior representative of the Division of Research& Innovation with internal
and external stakeholders.
- Provide strategic oversight and leadership for the development and expansion of the university’s externally sponsored research portfolio.
- Establish strategies to increase federal, state, foundation,corporate, and other external funding.
- Strengthen institutional capacity for large-scale,multidisciplinary, and multi-institutional proposals.
- Support the development of major centers, institutes, program project, training, infrastructure, and other complexproposals.
- Cultivate relationships with federal agencies, foundations,corporations, philanthropic organizations, and other fundingpartners.
- Monitor trends in federal and state research funding and identify emerging funding opportunities aligned with universitypriorities.
- Promote a coordinated and proactive approach to proposal development and research development.
- Lead strategies to strengthen faculty competitiveness for external funding.
- Expand faculty research development programs, workshops,mentoring, limited-submission programs,…
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