Associate Manager Education

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Provides the project management, planning, budgetary and technical oversight, and coordination necessary to operate research participation programs for the Department of Energy (DOE), national labs and other sponsors for postgraduate, graduate, undergraduate and precollege students and for university faculty. Such programs include research participation appointments, fellowships, scholarships and internships.

• APPOINTMENT:
  Full-Time Regular (FTR)
• LOCATION:
  
  Oak Ridge, TN
• SALARY RANGE: $96,657.60 - $

• Analyze workforce needs and establish personnel requirements.
• Requisition and select qualified employees necessary to meet established requirements and program goals.
• Assign employees to jobs, establish standards and training for the proper performance of work and familiarize staff with company rules, procedures and policies.
• Maintain discipline of employees under supervision in accordance with established policies.
• Assume responsibility for the proper application of established human resource administration policies, safety and health regulations and local, state and federal regulations.
• Initiate action and approve or recommend approval of hires, disciplinary actions, leaves of absence, promotions, reductions‑in‑force, performance evaluation, salary increases, terminations of employment for cause, separations, transfers and other personnel actions.
• Approve or disapprove leave requests, timecards and work schedules.
• Approve employee travel and reimbursement.
• Plan, organize, direct and schedule the work of employees, program assets and material within budgetary and quality standards.
• Define program goals and implement strategies for addressing these goals, consistent with maximizing program efficiency and performance.
• Propose, monitor and comply with project budgets.
• Examine work for exactness and conformance with policies and procedures.

• Design and implement recruitment strategies for programs to include establishing strong ties with the Minority‑Serving Institution community as well as the overall higher education STEM community, visiting campuses, preparing and updating a program website, preparing program announcements/flyers and participating in professional meetings, conferences, and other higher education meetings, etc.
• Gather diverse applicant pools and find candidates in response to specific sponsor or laboratory research opportunities.
• Lead other group and organizational unit recruitment activities.
• Maintain data that will help inform recruitment strategies.
• Provide project management for ongoing and expanding activities related to higher education programs. This requires an extensive understanding of the sponsoring agencies missions and directorates, and their research areas to interact with hundreds of federal research facility and university education coordinators, participants, advisors, government and private sector representatives, and program sponsors in response to questions and to provide programmatic and other requested information.
• Oversee application system and review process for applicant selection, ensuring ongoing recruitment of qualified applicants including prompt, fair and thorough reviews of all applications, and well‑documented employee participant program activities.
• Ensure best practices and innovations are identified and shared, and barriers are identified and overcome.

• Coordinate with program sponsors to determine funding levels.
• Prepare and monitor budgets and controls expenditures in accordance with agreed upon deliverables and ORAU/Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) requirements.
• Approve appointments, travel, stipend authorizations, and other programmatic expenditures.
• Provide accurate cost reporting to sponsors.
• Responsible for programs with a combined budget of $8‑15 million per year.

• Represent the organization on various committees and professional societies, and at national meetings and public forums.
• Actively participate by leading…