What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supervisory Senior Ocean Enterprise Program Manager position at usm-pilot?
Job Summary
This position helps coordinate
research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E)
of ocean platforms and sensors including, but not limited to maritime
systems, aerial systems, research vessels, remote sensing, and fixed or
drifting profiling sensors, as well as develop and implement training for their
use. The incumbent will also help assist a
diverse staff of scientific and engineering managers, researchers, students, pilots,
and support staff to execute multiple complex inter-disciplinary projects
reaching across the University’s full complement of coastal
and ocean activities as well as managing a diverse range of internal
and external partnerships that will strengthen USM’s leadership in the emerging
MS Blue Economy.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Serve as an expert regarding the development and application of optionally crewed, uncrewed and crewed platforms/sensors for DoD Joint missions, NOAA missions, and other State and Federal Agencies maritime activities.
- Helps recruits, negotiate, and services collaboration with various Blue Economy Partners (Private, State, Local, Tribal, Federal, Academic, and Non-Profit) to expand and grow the Center for Ocean Enterprise.
- Supervises the timeliness, quality, and quantity of work of Scientific and Engineering Managers, Technicians, Researchers, Students, and other research staff. Prepares work schedules, annual work plan and project budget requests; purchases equipment, commodities, serves as purchasing authority; monitors expenditures of funds allocated to project.
- Oversees development, implementation and management of research projects including writing proposals, planning, statements of works, budgets, scheduling, report and manuscript preparation and dissemination of information through conferences and presentations. Provides technical and programmatic expertise to the Director of R&D for Ocean Enterprise, project leads/principal investigators other USM researchers and external partners.
- Assists the Director of R&D in supporting innovation and entrepreneurship programs, facilitate business development and partnerships, promote expansion of research infrastructure (classified and unclassified), technology transfer and commercialization activities as well as workforce training.
- Performs other duties as assigned.