The George Washington University (GW) is pleased to welcome expressions of interest and nominations for the position of Vice President for Research. At a consequential moment in the evolution of the University and its research enterprise, GW seeks an accomplished, strategically-minded scholar and a highly collaborative leader to develop and advance the research enterprise at a complex, urban research university.
The Vice President for Research (formerly the Vice Provost for Research) is the George Washington University’s chief research officer and a senior academic and administrative leader with responsibility for advancing the University’s research mission across its exceptionally broad intellectual portfolio. Reporting to the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, with a dotted-line to the President and serving as a member of the President’s Cabinet, the VPR provides vision, leadership, and operational stewardship for a research enterprise that encompasses sponsored research and research development, research integrity and compliance, innovation and entrepreneurship, research infrastructure and core facilities, and key sources of intramural funding.
The VPR leads the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), a complex organization of more than 80 staff and six direct reports, as well as dotted-line reports from research support teams. The VPR is expected to be both an effective institutional builder and an energetic champion for GW’s faculty and scholarly community. The VPR must be sufficiently conversant with the mechanics of sponsored research, compliance, research administration, and research infrastructure to run a sophisticated enterprise, while possessing the intellectual breadth and institutional imagination to understand the very different ways in which faculty, postdocs, graduate, and undergraduate students find funding and generate scholarship with impact across the humanities, social sciences, policy, law, business, health sciences, engineering, and STEM. Research in the social sciences and book publications from the humanities, in particular, have been important to GW’s own research enterprise as an AAU Research University. GW’s next VPR needs to be able to create an infrastructure that supports thriving research of the large-scale funded variety and that which may be smaller scale but crucial to the mission of the University.
Candidate Profile
The successful candidate will bring distinguished scholarly achievement, meaningful success in external funding, substantial research leadership experience, operational command of the research enterprise, experience with research administration and stewardship, organizational leadership, experience building interdisciplinary or cross-organizational initiatives, and an understanding of research centers and institutes.
Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. The salary range for this role is expected to be $300,000-500,000 with a generous benefits package. Note that the final salary will reflect internal equity and the selected candidate’s individual experiences and qualifications. For more information on benefits available to GW employees, please visit: https://hr.gwu.edu/benefits
GW continuously works to be the employer of choice for faculty and staff, a welcoming community for students from every background, and an effective partner in addressing the challenges of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The University is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that does not unlawfully discriminate in any of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
How to Apply
The Education Practice of DSG|Global, formerly Storbeck, has been exclusively retained by The George Washington University to conduct this search. The engagement is being led by Ruth Shoemaker Wood, Ph.D., Managing Director, and Susan Kart, Ph.D., Managing Associate. Individuals interested in exploring the opportunity are invited to submit a CV and letter of interest through our confidential Talent Profile.