Director, Center Biotechnology; University

Director, Center for Biotechnology (Open to University Employees Only)

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Click “Apply for this Job,” complete the faculty information form, and attach the following documents:

• A letter of interest that highlights your qualifications for the position, explains your interest and motivation, describes your initial vision and anticipated contributions leading NCB, and includes information about your own research program or expertise, and how it may integrate with or benefit your role leading the Center.
• The names of 3-5 professional references.

Working Title:

Director, Center for Biotechnology (Open to University Employees Only)

Requisition Number: F_260024

Posting Open Date: 03/10/2026

Application Review Date: 04/10/2026

Open Until Filled:
Yes

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) seeks a new Director to lead the Nebraska Center for Biotechnology (NCB), an interdisciplinary, University-wide research center that provides state of the art technologies for research through its core facilities. Nebraska seeks a leader who can harness the potential of the Center core expertise and technologies for research growth across disciplines.

NCB’s mission is to drive research excellence by offering cutting‑edge instrumentation, expert technical and scientific support, assistance with grant development and manuscript preparation. State-of-the-art technologies provided through six integrated core facilities advance research in the areas of biomedical and agricultural sciences. Core facilities include Bioinformatics, Cryo‑Electron Microscopy, Flow Cytometry, Microscopy, Proteomics and Metabolomics and Single Cell Genomics.

Additionally, NCB enhances the university’s research environment through workshops, short courses, student fellowships, and scholarship programs. The Center is committed to meeting the evolving needs of the UNL research community and its external collaborators.

Reporting to the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, the Director will lead the Center’s strategic vision. The Director will capitalize on the outstanding core personnel, instrumentation and facilities, while displaying the vision, energy, commitment, and organization/administrative skills to take the Center to the next level.

The Director will work collaboratively with university administration, colleges, academic departments, research centers, and other partners across the University of Nebraska campuses, to help faculty achieve their research goals by providing instrumentation and technical scientific expertise, assisting with grant applications and manuscripts, training students and postdocs, and serving the needs of the NU research community to advance research across multiple disciplines.

The Director will proactively identify and pursue funding opportunities from federal, state, and private sources for acquisition and upgrading of major research instrumentation.

The Director will collaborate closely with other Center and Core Facility Directors across UNL and the University of Nebraska system to align and coordinate major equipment investments, optimize resource sharing, and promote efficiency across research units.

The Director will provide administrative and budgetary oversight for NCB. This includes responsible and transparent financial management of all Center resources, oversight of recharge structures for core facilities, and long‑term financial sustainability planning.

The Director will create and sustain a welcoming environment in which faculty, staff, and students can excel and grow professionally and personally.

• The Center Director is responsible for developing and implementing a short‑term (e.g., three-to‑five years) and long‑term (e.g., ten years) vision to support excellence in life sciences research at UNL.
• The Center Director leads a team of individual research core facility directors. The Center Director uses input from the directors of individual research core facilities to provide overall leadership for: administration of fiscal resources; strategic…