Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

About the EPICenter at Georgia Institute of Technology

EPICenter was established to address the need for sustaining progress toward low cost, reliable, low carbon energy into the coming decades. It is an affiliated center, with its own $20M endowment, of the Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech, which serves as a 'systems integrator' for the 300+ faculty working in energy (see energy.gatech.edu). Georgia Tech has broad and deep expertise across the whole energy value chain, including power generation, renewables, electric grid, transportation, buildings, cybersecurity, smart cities, energy storage, energy geopolitics, energy economics, and energy policy, to name a few.

The center was established to deploy Georgia Tech's deep strengths in energy technology, policy, and economics toward regional energy issues with national and international impact, and to guide stakeholders in thinking through complex, coupled social and technological energy issues. The center can be thought of as part 'think tank', part 'extension service', and part 'applied research institute'. Potential center activities include, but are not limited to:

• Producing timely, rigorous studies that address southeastern perspectives/roles on global, national and regional energy issues and communicating this information to the public;
• Serve as a convening organization and a nonpartisan facilitator for academic, business and nongovernmental stakeholders;
• Provide opportunities for information exchange among students, faculty and visiting scholars;
• Support education and workforce development, facilitating collaboration and public-private partnerships within the region, the nation, and with other relevant stakeholders.
• EPICenter relies on funds from its $20M endowment, annual gifts, and extramural grants to execute its mission, but shares support staff with SEI.

Atlanta, GA

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) seeks to fill the Director position (Research Faculty rank determined by qualifications and experience) for its Energy, Policy, and Innovation Center EPICenter (see energy.gatech.edu/epicenter-gt). Candidates seeking a Tenure-Track appointment can find the parallel announcement and application process using the below link;

Candidates with all relevant energy backgrounds are encouraged to apply, including public policy, economics, national security policy, other relevant social sciences, engineering, or natural sciences. This Director will build the thought leadership footprint and research portfolio of Georgia Tech by promoting engagement of its research expertise with current issues facing society.

Sustaining progress toward low cost, reliable, low carbon energy into the coming decades will present significant challenges. Sources of rigorous and fact-based analyses, with strong analytical foundations are needed, delivered in a time frame that is helpful to inform these conversations. Moreover, tackling global grand challenges in climate change and energy requirements must be addressed locally, tailored to the distinctive energy resource mix, industries, demographics, regulatory framework, and climate of a given region.

The Director will report to the Executive Director of SEI. SEI reports centrally through the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research.

• Lead and administer EPICenter, advancing Georgia Tech's applied research and engagement with regional governmental and policy bodies by partnering, connecting and promoting collaborations among faculty, other SEI leadership and Georgia Tech organizations, and external entities.
• Mentor, develop, and steward EPICenter's overall strategic direction, fundraising, key initiatives, and human resources.
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with key stakeholders, including academic faculty and research faculty at Georgia Tech, business, government, NGOs and technology leaders.
• Contribute to Georgia Tech serving as a trusted energy R&D organization and source of impartial, fact-based information.
• Build the research portfolio and thought leadership footprint of Georgia Tech by promoting engagement of its research expertise with current issues facing society.
• Advise the SEI Executive Director and broader Georgia Tech leadership on strategies to leverage EPICenter and its energy ecosystem approach for broader initiatives that fall outside of the southeastern region, including global partnerships and longer-term projects.

This position vacancy is an open title/rank announcement. Final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook ()

Research Associate/Engineer/Scientist I

• Bachelors Degree in any energy relevant discipline including public policy, economics, political science, social sciences, engineering, natural sciences, or related area.

Research Associate/Engineer/Scientist II

• A Masters degree in any energy relevant discipline including public policy, economics, political science, social sciences, engineering, natural sciences, or related area, and three (3) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of that degree, or
• A Masters degree in any energy relevant discipline including public policy, economics, political science, social sciences, engineering, natural sciences, or related area, and five (5) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of a Bachelors degree, or
• A Doctoral degree.

Senior Research Associate/Engineer/Scientist

• A Masters degree in any energy relevant discipline including public policy, economics, political science, social sciences, engineering, natural sciences, or related area, and seven (7) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of that degree, or
• A Masters degree in any energy relevant discipline including public policy, economics, political science, social sciences, engineering, natural sciences, or related area, and nine (9) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of a Bachelors degree, or
• A Doctoral degree in any energy relevant discipline including public policy, economics, political science, social sciences, engineering, natural sciences, or related area, and four (4) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of a Bachelors degree.

• Candidates with all relevant energy backgrounds are encouraged to apply, including public policy, economics, political science, other relevant social sciences, engineering, or natural sciences.
• The candidate must demonstrate strong expertise in the related field.
• The successful candidate must have extensive experience engaging in state or national energy policy.
• Direct or collaborative experience with a research organization or think tank is attractive, as is success in securing external funding related to energy issues in interdisciplinary teams.

Application reviews shall begin March 15th.

Please specifically address the following questions in your cover letter:

1. Given Georgia Tech's stature as an elite technological university, describe your visions for how to run the center that both leverages this advantage, but also extends its capabilities to serving as a leader and trusted adviser in guiding stakeholders through complex, coupled social and technological energy issues?
2. Describe your visions for how you would interface with the academic faculty at GT who may be focused on longer range or more fundamental aspects of energy?
3. Describe your visions for outreach - what would be the key partners you would engage with? What would be your strategy for leveraging the center's endowment to further grow the center?

• Experience in developing and executing a vibrant program in areas related to the EPICenter mission, a deep understanding of the energy industry and vision for how to frame and deploy GTs strengths towards applied and current energy issues.
• Energetic, innovative, and entrepreneurial leader, who is able to raise the visibility and profile of Georgia Tech's interdisciplinary activities.
• Be a dynamic oral and written communicator.
• Visionary with capability to formulate and implement a strategic plan. In executing this plan, should be able to develop and execute processes and systems, measurement practices, and metrics reporting which can drive consistent improvement.
• Prioritize across numerous potential projects, activities and time horizons and appropriately select activities, delegate, and allocate work among staff members.
• Prior experience in conducting research across multiple disciplines and building networks and consortia within a research institution or think tank.
• Be able to build and expand relationships with federal, state, industry, and foundation partners.

Request for any further information/questions may be directed in confidence to Tim Lieuwen, at tim.lieuwen@energy.gatech.edu.

Finalists may be required to submit three reference letters. Candidate of choice shall complete a background check prior to start of employment.

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