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Executive Director (Academic Coordinator III -FY)

UCLA -
Los Angeles, CA

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Job Details

$111,002 - $197,259 a year
14 days ago

Qualifications

Faculty mentoring
Managing scientific research projects
Project reporting
Academic program development
Overseeing educational financial management
Faculty hiring
Community partnership development
Committee work
Strategic management
Program design
Renovation
Research proposal writing
Renovation project management
Student recruitment
Overseeing academic program planning
Team leadership
Faculty collaboration
Funder relationship management
Master's degree in social science
Experience working with graduate students
Strategic planning in education
Academic institution experience
Operations coordination planning
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Leading financial planning
Public affairs
Collaborating with government agencies
Collaboration with board members
Social Sciences
Research industry grant writing

Full Job Description

Job #JPF11237

CALIFORNIA CNTR FOR POPULATION RESEARCH / L&S Social Sciences / UCLA

Position overview

Position title: Executive Director

Salary range: See Table 34 for the salary range for this position. A reasonable estimate for this position is $111,002 - $197,259.

Review timeline: 30 days

Application Window

Open date: August 4, 2026

Next review date: Thursday, Sep 3, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date: Thursday, Sep 17, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

Position description

Established in 1998, the California Center for Population Research (CCPR) has since been a leading research center for research and training in demography. Since 2000, CCPR has been supported by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Research Infrastructure Grants and Research Training Grants. CCPR is comprised of over 150 faculty researchers and over 120 graduate student affiliates from the College of Letters and Science, School of Public Health, School of Public Affairs, Anderson Business School, School of Medicine and Education from the Graduate Division. CCPR's mission is dedicated to training the next generation of demographers; to conducting rigorous independent research on family demography, household dynamics and individual well-being; family change and diversity; population distribution, neighborhood dynamics and individual welfare; and reproductive and population health.

With fast-paced growth, CCPR has incorporated several research centers: the California Census Research Data Center, Center for Social Statistics, German Data Center, and the California Policy Lab. In addition, CCPR is the intellectual home of the Master of Population Data Science (MPDS) program, a self-supporting graduate professional degree program (SSGPDP), which prepares students for data-intensive careers in industry, government, and the nonprofit sector.

In partnership with the CCPR Faculty Director, the Executive Director provides vision, creativity, and leadership to build the Center's future; to lead a team of talented and experienced researchers and staff; to engage committed advisory councils; to represent the Center to the public and policymakers; to advocate to lawmakers for federal funding; and to oversee its academic and training programs. In partnership with the MPDS Faculty Director and Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC), the Executive Director also provides administrative leadership for the MPDS program, overseeing MPDS staff alongside the Center's research staff, and ensuring the program's admissions, academic operations, budget, and student services run smoothly.

The Executive Director has overall strategic and operational responsibilities for research programs, research space, staff, fundraising, and the mission. They must be able to work effectively within and create synergies with all subcenters
and academic programs. The Executive Director must have the capacity to collaborate and engage with the broad spectrum of the Center's partners, faculty affiliates, and the expertise and communication skills to serve as an effective representative of the organization, as well as providing leadership, institutional memory, and consultation.

The Executive Director will assist in writing grant proposals and research dissemination and outreach efforts. The Executive Director reports to the CCPR and MPDS Faculty Directors and works collaboratively with other research staff and faculty researchers. Applicants must have a Master's degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities:

Executive strategic and operational responsibilities for all research activities of the Center;

Primary responsibility for the administration, management, and coordination of large research programs with broad and substantial complexity, in compliance with University and funder policies;

Evaluate and manage annual faculty seed grant program, faculty course release program, research fellowship program, and weekly seminar series servicing faculty and graduate students from an array of academic disciplines across professional schools, colleges within campus and other public agencies outside the University;

Develop, implement, and manage new academic and research initiatives in population research, working with multiple campus units;

Evaluate research training programs and develop and implement new components; Responsible for largescale data collection and management;

Independently manage large-scale research grant proposal writing and submission coordination; assist in providing annual progress reports to various stakeholders, including UCLA and funding agencies, and be responsible for research budget planning;

Work with the Associate Vice Chancellor from the UCLA Capital Program to oversee all phases of research space design and renovation to fulfill all research sub-units' needs and harvest synergy among research centers and partners;

Research and explore federal and private foundation funding opportunities for faculty affiliates and facilitate disciplinary research collaboration;

Develop relationships with funding agencies and work with them to identify research needs and foster research collaboration among faculty researchers to expand the Center's research projects portfolio;

Assist faculty PIs and the personnel manager in hiring staff of CCPR; supervise CCPR graduate student researchers and staff to manage the data and produce research reports in conjunction with the faculty PIs;

Provide consultation and counsel on the Center's direction and research agenda to Faculty Directors;

Develop strategies and carry out short- and long-term Center goals;

Responsibility for fundraising and developing other resources necessary to support the Center, including budget planning and projections and financial stewardship of Center resources;

Partner with the MPDS Faculty Director on curriculum administration, course scheduling, instructor and TA appointments, and program marketing and outreach efforts;

Provide administrative oversight and management for the MPDS, including academic operations, admissions coordination, curriculum administration, and compliance with University policies governing self-supporting graduate professional degree programs;

Directly supervise, hire, train, and evaluate MPDS program staff in addition to CCPR's research staff, ensuring coordinated workload management and performance evaluation across both research and MPDS teams;

Oversee MPDS budget planning and financial managementincluding admissions, tuition revenue, staffing costs, and operating expenses and prepare related reports for the FAC, CCPR Director, and the Academic Planning and Budget (APB) Office;

Serve as administrative liaison to the MPDS FAC and the MPDS Industry Advisory Board, coordinating meetings, communications, and follow-up on program recommendations;

Oversee MPDS student affairs functions administered by MPDS staffincluding admissions, orientation, academic advising, and career/placement servicesensuring service quality and adherence to degree requirements and University policy;

Ensure effective coordination and resource-sharing between CCPR's core research operations and the MPDS program, including shared office and classroom space, IT infrastructure, and administrative systems.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

The successful candidate must have a Master's degree or equivalent degree, ideally in a field in social sciences.

Budgetary planning and management skills.

Additional qualifications

Advanced knowledge of research contracts and grant mechanisms to expand the Center's research portfolio;

Experience managing self-supporting or similar graduate degree programs and NIH training programs;

Excellent strategic planning, leadership, organizational and visionary skills to execute short- and long-term Center goals;

Excellent analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills;

Ability to research and analyze complex situations critically, and clearly convey information to others;

Expert ability to work with dynamic and diverse group of faculty, staff and students;

Ability to develop frameworks and networks for collaborative projects;

Ability to identify needs of sponsoring organizations to promote new partnership opportunities for collaboration and research;

Ability to develop, organize, coordinate, direct, and implement the cost-effective and integrated research and administrative services for a multi-school research unit;

Motivated and committed to diversity; Entrepreneurial spirit;

Demonstrated ability to create and maintain productive relationships with colleagues, constituents, donors, and advisory board members;

General knowledge of financial, contract and grants, and personnel policies and principles in a university setting and be able to work cooperatively with other university schools and departments in a complex administrative environment;

The successful candidate must have a Master's degree or equivalent degree, ideally in a field in social sciences;

Facilitate research mentorship for junior faculty affiliates with research resources.

The successful candidate will have at least 5+ years of demonstrated management and leadership experience for a successful center or academic unit.

Application Requirements

Document requirements

Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Cover Letter (Optional)
Statement of Research (Optional)
UCLA Mission Statement - As the nation's premier public research university, UC's mission is the creation, dissemination, preservation and application of knowledge for the betterment of our global society. We have a particular responsibility to the people of California which we express in the excellence of the education we provide, the impact of the research we do, the comprehensive, life-saving medical services we provide, and the public service mission we are devoted to. The University of California promotes the social mobility of its students, equips them with the tools and experience that furthers their ambitions, and regards their accomplishments across the life span as evidence of the profoundly positive impact of higher education.

The UCLA campus has expressed these goals in its strategic plan as follows:

Deepen our engagement with Los Angeles
Expand our reach as a global university
Enhance our research and creative activities
Elevate how we teach
Become a more effective institution

Prompt for candidates for recruitment:

Reflecting on your personal and professional experiences, highlight your past contributions and future commitments to advancing UCLA's mission as embodied in the 2023-28 strategic plan. These accomplishments and ambitions may be discussed in the context of describing your teaching, scholarship, and service
Statement of Teaching (Optional)

Reference requirements

2-4 letters of reference required

The applicant is required to provide references and they must notify their references that a letter of recommendation is needed to complete their application packet.

Apply link: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11237

Help contact: [email protected]

About UCLA

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.

“Misconduct” means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, discrimination, dishonesty, or unethical conduct, as defined by the employer.
UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy
UC Anti-Discrimination Policy for Employees, Students and Third Parties
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