Interdisciplinary (Program Director) - Alexandria, United States - US National Science Foundation

US National Science Foundation
US National Science Foundation
Verified Company
Alexandria, United States

3 weeks ago

Mark Lane

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter
Description

Duties:


The CHIPS Program Director will take an active role in supporting ECCS programs to enable frontier-scale research on semiconductors that encompasses transformative advancements in silicon technology and beyond, at material, device, circuit, and system levels to enable a wide range of sensing, communication, and computing functionalities including logic, memory, and interconnect.

The impact has boundless potential in emerging technologies, including future computing paradigms, artificial intelligence, power electronics, microelectronics, 6G and beyond wireless communications, and quantum information engineering, which will lead to many of The Industries of the Future.

Their work will also strengthen research and education activities by encouraging interdisciplinary and international collaborations between academia, industry, and the public sector to secure our nation's global leadership in semiconductor research.

The responsibilities of the NSF Program Director are constantly evolving.

The program Director is guided by the goals of NSF's Strategic Plan:
(1) enable the United States to uphold a position of world leadership in all aspects of science, mathematics, and engineering, (2) promote the discovery, integration, dissemination, and employment of new knowledge in service to society, and (3) achieve excellence in U.S. science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education at all levels. The core strategies NSF staff employ include developing intellectual capital, strengthening the physical infrastructure, integrating research and education, and promoting partnerships.

Responsibilities of the program Director include long-range planning and budget development for the areas of science represented by the program or program cluster, the administration of the merit review process and proposal recommendations, the preparation of press releases, feature articles, and material describing advances in the research supported, and coordination and liaison with other programs in NSF, other Federal agencies and organizations.


MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

PROGRAM PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

  • Maintain a healthy balance of support for all the needs of the research and education enterprise either through program, division, directorate, Foundation, or interagency activities.
  • Manage program resources so as to provide optimal appropriate scientific judgment to insure integrity and consistency in the grant/declination process without conflict of interests, and with balance among appropriate subfields and institutions, and participation of all qualified scientists. Incorporate crossdirectorate responsibilities into program administration.
  • Manage an effective, timely merit review process, with attention to increasing the size and quality of the reviewer pools and insuring participation by women, minorities and disabled scientists.
  • Provide scientific expertise, evaluation, and advice for other NSF programs, including international programs, other research programs, and crossdirectorate programs.
  • Advise and assist in the development of short
- and long-range plans, establishing goals and objectives for research programs. Plan the budget for the program/programs considering past, present and future fiscal years, allocate resources within that budget distributing scarce resources among major competitive programs, and manage post-award evaluation.

  • Control waste, fraud, and abuse.

REPRESENTATION, COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP

  • Represent the Foundation within the scientific community, with other NSF Divisions, with other appropriate agencies and organizations, and with the public, accurately reflecting NSF policy and positions.
  • Create and maintain linkages to other NSF units and other Federal agencies in pursuit of the overall NSF mission.
  • Participate in meetings, providing input relevant to Program area and/or Division.
  • Pursue affirmative action and EEO goals.
  • Pursue and/or be responsive to assignment on special projects and temporary functional teams from across the Foundation to solve problems, improve staff communication, and effect coordination for special programs.
  • Contribute ideas and effort to improving the quality of policies and NSF's performance of the overall mission. Develop policies and plans for strengthening research and education programs. Provide information to the community on how NSF is pursuing its mission and gather data and impressions from the community on the effectiveness of NSF's performance of its mission.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Establish contacts and maintain active involvement in Program and related areas through participation in professional activities. Maintain familiarity with salient current research developments. Pursue individual research as workload and travel funds permit.
  • Expand administrative capabilities through training courses or assumption of new management responsibilities.

Requirements:


Conditions of Employment:

**Th
More jobs from US National Science Foundation
See all jobs of US National Science Foundation