Job Summary

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The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder invites nominations and applications for the position of Director of Strategy and Partnerships. The position provides a rare opportunity to help define the future of one of the world's premier space research institutions. The Director of Strategy and Partnerships is a senior leadership team role, reporting to LASP's Director, that develops and executes LASP's strategic vision, cultivates the partnerships essential to advancing the lab's space science mission, and ensures competitive proposals are submitted for winning new grants and contracts that support the laboratory's science and technology efforts.

Who We Are

The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is one of the largest research institutes of CU Boulder, the #1 public university recipient of NASA research grants, and one of America's leading aerospace universities.

What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be

Strategy

• Working with the LASP Director and senior leadership, oversee the development of short- and long-term strategic priorities and future plans that span LASP's science and technology teams, including in coordination with CU, government, private, and international space partners.
• Identify new opportunities across academic, government, commercial, and international sectors, including awareness of emerging domains, products, and sectors eligible for expansion, such as large mission concepts, instrument line development, and strategic faculty and staff hiring.

Partnerships

• Cultivate partnerships with NASA, NOAA, local and state government, federal agency, industry, foundation, and philanthropic entities, supported by a robust partner relationship management system.
• Identify and develop advancement and philanthropic opportunities in collaboration with the Director of LASP.

Proposal & Capture

• Interact with prospective principal investigators (PIs) to maintain a continual awareness of future ambitions.
• Evaluate proposal opportunities and assess resource and capacity requirements for responding to calls, working closely with LASP leadership.
• Publicize upcoming proposal opportunities within LASP.
• Lead a team of proposal and capture managers to grow the quality and number of proposals submitted by LASP principal investigators and by external principal investigators partnered with LASP scientists and technologists.
• Oversee the submission of large mission, instrument, and research proposals, including conducting internal reviews to ensure proposal excellence.
• Oversee the LASP Strategy and Partnerships Committee, a rotating group of scientists and technologists to support the Director of Strategy & Partnerships in shared responsibility for lab-wide dissemination of opportunities, internal proposal support and review, and fostering the skills growth of new PIs and PMs.
• Ensure initiatives for strategy and partnerships are resourced, sequenced, and tracked to completion.

Plus other duties as assigned.