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Current Openings
Deputy Executive Director, National Security Initiatives
The Deputy Executive Director (DED) at the Center for National Security Initiatives (NSI) will have overarching responsibility for business development and strategy, operations and security, and communications of NSI. Additionally, the DED is charged with managing NSI's classified research environments, supervising onsite security staff, and collaborating with the campus security team to maintain the facility's operations securely and in compliance with regulations. This position also supports the NSI Director in strategically enabling research growth. This role is responsible for technology and business development, and complementary communications alignment. The Deputy Executive Director will represent the Director as required and will serve as an NSI advocate within the CU system.
NSI seeks applicants with the following qualifications: outstanding leadership; thorough comprehension of the issues involved with national security research; broad awareness of business needs among a diverse community of researchers and partners; knowledge of US Department of Defense (DoD) and US Intelligence Community (IC) research needs with a personal network that can support such knowledge; a deep sense of working in large university settings; and the ability to serve effectively as a key leader of the NSI management team. This position will report to the Director of NSI.