University Partnership Liaison, Co-PI-ready Research Scientist

Job Description:

• Map and advance university and community-college partnership pathways for STEM education and workforce sponsored projects
• Coordinate with institutional sponsored programs, research development, and faculty PIs on roles, scopes, and proposal timelines
• Support research design, evaluation framing, and partnership documentation suitable for NSF-style and related education packages
• Facilitate introductions among K-14, community-college, industry, and university partners when the project design calls for it
• Contribute specialist qualifications and citeable past projects to WIL grant and sponsored-research packages when permissioned

Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience in university sponsored research, research development, academic–industry or academic–K14 partnership, or Co-PI / senior-personnel roles on STEM education or workforce projects
• Strong written communication for proposals, scopes of work, and partner correspondence
• Ability to navigate IHE sponsored-programs processes and faculty collaboration norms
• Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as partner work requires
• Prior NSF, ATE, RET, RIEF, IUSE, or related sponsored-project experience
• Familiarity with community-college technician education or engineering education research communities
• Prior projects you can cite (agency or institution, your role, year)