Program Director, National Security & Technology - Georgetown University Law Center

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Posted: 12-Jan-24

Location: Washington, D.C.

Type: Full-time

Salary: Open

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Internal Number: 4926315

Program Director, National Security & Technology - Georgetown University Law Center
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Program Director, National Security & Technology - Georgetown University Law Center
Job Overview
Building on the leading national security JD/LLM program in the country, Georgetown Law's Center on National Security is expanding its work as a think/do tank, connecting research to real world problems. In recognition of the rapidly changing national security landscape, the Center has recently launched NatSec 360 , an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to identifying and addressing some of the most pressing concerns in national security. Its marquee new initiative is the National Security 360 Innovation Incubator, a problem solving lab dedicated to finding and implementing novel, cross-sectoral solutions to complex security problems at the intersection of law, policy, and society. The Center is tailoring an innovation methodology for law and policy problem sets, building on the ideas and tools underpinning design thinking, creative problem solving, complexity theory, organizational behavior, change management and related fields.
The 360 Innovation Incubator will be tackling problems in four focus areas, the first of which is the NatSec Tech Program , which looks at the intersections between national security and new and emerging technologies.
The Program Director for National Security & Technology will lead this new program, serving as a thought leader for this increasingly important sub-field. Utilizing the Center's innovation methodology, the Program Director will help develop strategic new project ideas for the Incubator, oversee and manage those projects including all aspects of foundation grants and budgets, write grant proposals, and build new relationships and networks for the Center.
In the immediate term, the Program Director will be the day to day lead manager for the Center on National Security's new Public Interest Technology grant-funded project: 360 Tech: Innovation, Security, and Governance. The project aims to identify the most critical risks posed by social media to individuals, communities, and society, and then develop and test holistic governance models to address those risks. The Program Director will be a lead member of the core team (overseen by the Executive Director) and will be responsible for managing all day to day aspects of the project, including research and writing, coordination and outreach, project management, event and workshop planning, and operations oversight.
Responsibilities will include researching and writing complex law, policy, and technology-related memos for the Task Force relating to the security risks and implications of social media; liaising with the Task Force; coordinating and helping the core team and the design experts to develop online innovation labs, including the background tech design for online collaborative workshops; drafting outcome reports from each innovation lab; coordinating the extreme user consultations; coordinating, undertaking, and recording stakeholder outreach and interviews; liaising and working with the MIT Game Lab to develop a virtual or online game relating to social media risks; coordinating public and private events/roundtables; mentoring and supervising post-graduate fellow and student assistants; tracking expenses and reporting on project deliverables and budget as required; supporting the ED, Task Force Chair, and Task Force members as needed.
More broadly, the Program Director will also help develop and launch new project ideas that could include, for example, the ethical implications of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, cyberattacks and hacking, drones, data and privacy problem sets, and risks endemic to condominium technologies.
Building on the work with the Game Lab, the Program Director will also support the next version of Georgetown's National Security Simulation, which will focus on the risks posed by technology and the increasing importance of tech sector actors to the field.
Work Interactions
The NatSec Tech Program is the first program under our newly launched Innovation Incubator and the PIT-UN funded project 360 Tech is the first pilot project. As such, it will serve as proof of concept for our new approaches, processes, and tools. Through the pilot project, we will be testing the Center's innovation methodology and identify structures and project design aspects that work and don't work. The project is also an important part of Georgetown's commitment to public interest technology, under the PIT-UN Challenge and Tech & Society initiatives.
The Program Director for National Security & Technology will report to the Executive Director and help lead the day to day aspects of the core team supporting the 360 Tech project. As well, they will also support the Task Force Chair, Professor Laura Donohue, and Task Force members as needed. The Program Director will interact with other members of the core team and supervise a post-graduate fellow and research assistants and/or national security scholars/honors program students; and will interact with and help coordinate internal partners (i.e., students, faculty, Georgetown support offices) and external partners and stakeholders.
As the designated Department Financial Manager for Sponsored Project, the Program Director will be responsible for financial management of the sponsored project to ensure compliance with sponsor's requirements and University's policies and procedures. Within 30 days after the close of the month (generally the 8th business day after the end of the month), the duties to be performed by the employee include, but not limited to:

• Review and reconcile expenses on the Center Status Reports to ensure that the expenses are a) allowable by the sponsor for the project, b) allocable to the project, c) reasonable and necessary, d) supported by required documents, and e) within the budgeted amounts;
• Review salary distributions to ensure that they reasonably reflect employees' level of effort on project. Review associated fringe benefits for accuracy;
• Review the commitments of key personnel, to ensure the costs reasonably reflect the level of effort committed to the sponsors as part of proposal and notify OSP/OSR of significant variances;
• Review the calculation of indirect cost recovery to ensure accuracy;
• Process all corrections and adjustments within 90 days of when the charge initially posts to the financial system (posted date for non-payroll and pay period end date for payroll transactions) and ensure corrections and adjustments are reviewed and approved according to the signature authority policy and supported by appropriate documents;
• Complete the Financial Status Report (FSR) worksheets timely and accurately; and
• Ensure that payments to subrecipients are reviewed and processed in a timely manner.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Due to the complexity of the Incubator and our pilot project as well as the Program Director's central role, the position will require an advanced degree (including a United States JD and/or LLM) and a minimum of 5-7 years of work experience in national security and technology law or policy (e.g., the use of disinformation and manipulation on social media platforms, privacy and data issues, ethical implications of artificial intelligence).
• Experience in project management, including grant management, designing projects, and managing budgets, is required.
• Experience with design, creative problem solving, and change management is desired.
• The Program Director should have strategic vision as well as be detail-oriented, a team player, responsive, an excellent writer and researcher, and require minimal supervision.
• The Program Director should have excellent judgment and the proven ability to operate professionally in interactions with diverse stakeholders.
• S/he should have experience managing complex tasks on short timelines and coordinating events and projects with multiple stakeholders.

Work Mode: Hybrid Please note that work mode designations are regularly reviewed in order to meet the evolving needs of the University. Such review may necessitate a change to a position's mode of work designation. Complete details about Georgetown University's mode of work designations for staff and AAP positions can be found on the Department of Human Resources Mode of Work Designation .

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Georgetown University offers a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that includes medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, retirement savings, tuition assistance, work-life balance benefits, employee discounts and an array of voluntary insurance options. You can learn more about benefits and eligibility on the Department of Human Resources website .
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