Due to an upcoming retirement, Virginia Tech has a great opportunity open for an Associate Vice President for Research Computing. An excerpt from the position description appears below. It is advertised at https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/521147/associate-vice-president-for-research-computing where online application is available. Please help us spread the word to qualified potential candidates. All are encouraged!
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Scott Midkiff
Position Description Excerpt:
The Associate Vice President for Research Computing provides strategic leadership, vision, and execution for advanced research computing services to support the Virginia Tech research community and to advance the competitiveness and success of the university’s research enterprise. Recognizing the importance of computation, visualization, and data to its research mission, Virginia Tech has made significant and continuing investments in cyberinfrastructure and professional personnel in computational science, visualization, support, and operations.
The Associate Vice President provides vision, strategy, and leadership for advanced research computing at Virginia Tech; leads and coordinates the deployment and effective operation of high performance computing, large scale storage, high data rate networking, visualization, research software and applications, and support services that advance the university’s research competitiveness; broadens the impact of research computing at Virginia Tech by increasing the diversity of users; and actively engages with the research computing community both within and external to the university.
The Associate Vice President reports to the university’s Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer and leads the Advanced Research Computing (ARC) unit within the Division of IT. The Associate Vice President works closely with the Office of Research and Innovation and has a “dotted line” reporting relationship to the Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation.