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Job Title Associate Vice President for Research Security and Compliance

Department V.P. FOR RESEARCH

Position Number FP324A

Location Norfolk, VA

Job Summary

Old Dominion University ( ODU ) invites applications and nominations for its Associate Vice President for Research Security and Compliance ( AVP - RSC ) and Chief Research Compliance Officer. This is an important opportunity to join Virginia’s forward focused, public R1 doctoral research institution in this inaugural role, newly created to manage compliance structures across a growing research ecosystem. ODU seeks a research compliance subject matter and best practice expert to serve as a trusted advisor and counsel to university and research leadership and individual investigators. The AVP - RSC will lead a growing research compliance office, joining an institution that is currently developing a new academic medical center to continue its already impressive growth trajectory.

Reporting to the Vice President for Research and serving as the University’s Chief Research Compliance Officer, the AVP - RSC will play a critical role within the Division of Research and across the University. They will be charged with developing and maintaining a best-in-class research compliance program, ensuring that policies, processes, and procedures are responsive and supportive of faculty and evolve with changing sponsor and regulatory imperatives. The AVP - RSC will supervise the Assistant Vice President for Research Security and the Director of Research Compliance and a total current team of eight. They will lead policy and administrative support for the University-wide and College-specific committees that provide compliance reviews of research protocols, including IRB , IACUC , IBC , and College Human Subjects Review Committees. In 2023, ODU engaged in more than $73 million in total research and development. The Eastern Virginia Medical School ( EVMS ), a separate organization with $22 million in sponsored research, will integrate with ODU effective July 1, 2024. In this context, the AVP - RSC will be an important university stakeholder in ensuring successful integration from a research compliance perspective.

Successful candidates will have progressive experience developing and administering a best-in-practice research compliance function in an academic research setting, preferably with an academic medical component. They will have a collaborative leadership style and a customer service focus with investigators and colleagues. The AVP will be an engaged administrator, proactive in safeguarding the university’s best interests within an ever-changing regulatory landscape.

Old Dominion University has retained the national executive search firm Isaacson, Miller to conduct this critical search. Please direct all confidential inquiries, nominations, and applications to the firm as indicated at the end of this document.

Position Type FullTime

Type of Recruitment General Public

Minimum Qualifications

The successful candidate will be an experienced administrator of a rigorous research compliance program, likely in an academic research setting. They will have a track record of effective leadership in a complex research enterprise and a collaborative, service-oriented work style. Other desired skills, experiences, and personal qualities include:

• 8-10+ years of professional work experience and progressively senior supervisory experience in a research compliance environment.

• Comprehensive knowledge of federal regulations related to the conduct of a wide variety of university-based research.

• Ability to analyze written material and apply what is learned to an analysis of current University policy and/or a review of a pending proposal.

• Ability to develop compliance-related policies and implement these policies within the University community.

• A track record of productive, collaborative relationships with a diverse community of researchers, executives, and staff.

• Ability to communicate effectively in oral, presentation, and written form with a range of audiences including university administrators, faculty, federal and other state agencies, industry representatives, and other individuals interacting with the university research enterprise.

• A master’s degree is required; a JD or PhD is preferred.

• Experience working in a university research environment is strongly preferred

• Prior experience as a research investigator and/or certification as a research professional is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

Conditions of Employment

Applicants are instructed to provide a Cover Letter, CV and or Resume at the time of application. Only Applications submitted to Isaacson, Miller will be considered.

• Completion of Statement of Personal Economic Interests is required upon hire.

• The finalist candidate will be required to undergo a fingerprint-based criminal history check.

To apply: https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/old-dominion-university/associate-vice-president-research-compliance

For questions or concerns, please contact Tim Lanigan: tlanigan@imsearch.com.

Job Open Date 05/13/2024

Open Until Filled Yes

Application Review Date 06/10/2024

Job Close Date

Special Instructions to Applicants / Additional Materials Required

Old Dominion University has retained Isaacson, Miller, a national executive search firm, to assist in conducting this important search. All inquiries, applications, and nominations for this opportunity should be directed to the search firm as indicated below. Electronic submission of materials is required. For questions, please contact Tim Lanigan: tlanigan@imsearch.com.

To apply: https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/old-dominion-university/associate-vice-president-research-compliance

Criminal Background Check The final candidate is required to complete a criminal history check.

Department Information

Equity Statement

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or © consistent with contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

ODU Statement

Old Dominion University, located in Norfolk, is Virginia’s forward-focused public doctoral research university with more than 23,000 students, a top R1 research ranking, rigorous academics, an energetic residential community and initiatives that contribute $2.6 billion annually to Virginia’s economy.

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