Assistant Director, Office of Research CON

Location: Bryan, Texas, United States

Company

Texas A&M University Health Science Center is an academic health center encompassing five colleges and numerous centers and institutes focused on education, research, and team-based healthcare delivery.

What you will do

• Lead the day-to-day management, development, and strategic planning of the College of Nursing research portfolio.
• Provide operational leadership for research teams, funded projects, multi-site programs, and interdisciplinary collaborations.
• Coordinate research compliance activities, including IRB approvals, amendments, training, reliance agreements, continuing reviews, and regulatory documentation.
• Supervise research personnel and monitor project plans, milestones, deliverables, reports, and program performance.
• Support research funding, budgeting, resource allocation, portfolio analysis, and continuous improvement of research systems.
• Coordinate manuscripts, conference presentations, publications, benchmarking, dashboards, and stakeholder communications.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in health sciences, nursing, public health, healthcare administration, research administration, business administration, or a related discipline.
• Six years of related experience.
• Ability to work cooperatively with faculty, senior leadership, institutional offices, and external partners.
• Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet applications, research software such as REDCap, and quantitative and qualitative data analysis software.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, leadership, and supervisory skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, adapt to changing priorities, maintain attention to detail, and use sound judgment.

Nice to have

• Five years of progressively responsible experience in research, healthcare, higher education, program management, project management, administration, or a related field.
• Experience managing complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, budgets, timelines, and deliverables.
• Experience supporting senior academic leaders and research programs, sponsored projects, clinical research, translational research, or academic research enterprises.
• Experience with multi-site and multi-institutional human-subject research studies.
• Experience developing and improving operational processes, workflows, or administrative systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Grant-funded position; future employment may be contingent upon future funding.
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life, AD&D, flexible spending, and long-term disability insurance, with Texas A&M contributing to employee health and basic life premiums.
• 12–15 annual paid holidays, paid sick leave, and paid vacation.
• Automatic enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
• Professional development through LinkedIn Learning, conference and workshop support, educational release time, and tuition assistance.

Hiring process

• Submit complete application data or attach a complete resume; incomplete submissions may be rejected.
• Employment is contingent upon credential verification and completion of a criminal history investigation because all positions are security-sensitive.