Associate Vice President; Strategy & External Partnerships - Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute

Job Description - Associate Vice President (Strategy & External Partnerships) - Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (29721)

Associate Vice President (Strategy & External Partnerships) - Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute 29721

Description

The Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at West Virginia University is currently accepting applications for an Associate Vice President for Strategy & External Partnerships.

WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute

The WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) is a comprehensive multidisciplinary patient care, education, and research institute providing neurological and mental healthcare through more than 300,000 visits annually. The 300+ physicians and scientists of the RNI improve lives by pioneering advances in neuroscience, brain health, and therapeutics. The RNI team uses the latest technologies with academic, government, and industry partners to make tangible progress to combat public health challenges ranging from addiction to Alzheimer’s disease.

The RNI’s flagship facilities are located on the WVU Health Sciences campus in Morgantown, with more than 2,200 dedicated team members across seven departments, patient care units, and research laboratories. For more information, visit WVUMedicine.org/RNI.

The Associate Vice President (AVP), Strategy & External Partnerships serves as a senior strategic and operational leader for the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) reporting directly to the Executive Director of the RNI, Ali Rezai. The AVP leads high-priority strategic initiatives focused on technology commercialization, external partnerships, business development, communications, and institutional growth, and collaborates closely with RNI administrative leadership, RNI physician and scientific leadership, advisors, university and health system stakeholders, industry partners, foundations, state and federal government entities, and donors and philanthropy.

This position involves a combination of onsite and hybrid work, with a strong expectation of regular onsite presence.

We strongly believe in work-life balance and keeping time for things we love outside our work. WVU offers generous benefits, including:

• 37.5-hour work week
• 13 paid holidays ( staff holiday calendar )
• 24 annual leave (vacation) days per year ( employee leave )
• 18 sick days per year (for when you’re ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family’s, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)
• WVU offers a range of health insurance and other benefits
• 401(a) retirement savings with 6% employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks. Looking for more retirement benefits information ? Check out retirement health insurance benefits, retirement income, and FAQ’s.
• Wellness programs

Strategic Partnerships

• In partnership with WVU and WVU Medicine senior leadership, lead RNI’s strategic partnership efforts with external stakeholders including medtech, pharma and digital health, state and federal government, foundations and donors. This includes development and implementation and measurement of strategic efforts.
• Lead strategy development, analysis, implementation planning, and operational execution across RNI strategic initiatives and growth priorities
• Develop timelines, budgets, prioritization frameworks, milestones, metrics, and reporting structures for key institutional initiatives.
• Facilitate and advance RNI technology development initiatives with the RNI R&D team, including:
  Human Operating System (HOS) digital platform and related modules;
  Focused ultrasound device and clinical application development initiatives
• Create presentations, documents and marketing material related to these efforts

Corporate Development & External Partnerships

• Lead RNI corporate and business development initiatives and strategic external partnerships.
• Manage executive-level relationships with industry and…