Associate Director, Cities, Housing, and Society Lab (CHSL) and the Stanford Initiative for Business, Taxation, and Society (SIBTS)

Stanford's Graduate School of Business (GSB) has built a global reputation based on its immersive and innovative management programs. We provide students with a transformative leadership experience, pushing the boundaries of knowledge with faculty research, and offering a portfolio of entrepreneurial and non-degree programs that deliver global impact like no other. We are committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in service of our mission of developing innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change lives, change organizations, and change the world. We invite you to be part of this mission. As part of the GSB Research Hub, the Stanford GSB Library engages with faculty members, researchers, and students across the lifecycle of research, teaching, and scholarship.

This position services two labs within the Research Hub at the Stanford Graduate School of Business: the Cities, Housing, and Society Lab and the Stanford Initiative for Business, Taxation, and Society. The Associate Director will work with both research groups to manage their portfolio of research projects with time equally divided between the two groups. The Associate Director reports operationally to the faculty directors, and administratively to the Director, Research Operations in the GSB Research Hub. An ideal candidate will have research experience related to the labs’ interests allowing the candidate to discuss each labs’ research, communicate with partners, write funding proposals, and manage lab researchers. As the labs’ research spans many areas, the candidate does not need to be an expert in all areas but must be curious and able to learn about research in multiple disciplines.

The Cities, Housing, and Society Lab investigates how geographic places labor markets, and public policy influence households’ economic lives and inequality. They combine public and private sector administrative data with statistical and economic tools to improve the productivity and quality of life across all types of communities and their residents. The lab brings together a diverse set of collaborators across academia, industry, and government, along with unique data sources from both the public and private sector to tackle key policy issues facing cities today. Topics studied include affordable housing policy, place-based policies, spatial inequality, local public finance, and local labor economics.

The Stanford Initiative for Business, Taxation, and Society conducts cross-disciplinary tax research to better inform practice, policy, and academia. They conduct cutting edge research using administrative data, often in partnership with revenue authorities, to improve our understanding of how business responded to taxation and how these responses impact economic activity and inequality. Additionally, they grow and develop the next generation of tax scholars by combining PhD students, post-doctoral scholars, pre-doctoral fellows, and visiting scholars from around the world to discuss and conduct research.

Note: This is a two-year, fixed-term position and will work a hybrid schedule requiring availability two days per week or an equivalent time monthly on-site (as determined by the faculty directors).

Your primary responsibilities include:

Manage and oversee all aspects of the day-to-day operation within the labs. The work requires both administrative and technical acumen to facilitate the labs’ missions. Additionally, the tasks may involve internal and external stakeholders. Specific responsibilities include:

• Manage the work of lab staff including research assistants, pre-doctoral candidates, and post-doctoral researchers in support of research study analysis.
• Review and ensure compliance of research data agreements within the labs; establish effective data access and management protocols. Partner with GSB Data Acquisition and Governance teams to both oversee existing data agreements and implement new ones.
• Develop new, and maintain existing relationships with research partners, data providers, government agencies, nonprofits, and other community groups.
• Provide budget oversight for each lab including annual budget planning and operational execution, and expense tracking and reimbursement for all lab transactions. Interface with the GSB Research Hub and GSB Finance teams and ensure compliance with GSB and University financial management standards and requirements.
• Contribute to long-term strategic planning to support lab budgeting, resourcing, and staffing to meet research goals.
• With support from principal investigators, identify new grant opportunities, support the development of new grant proposals, and manage the completion and submission of grant deliverables.
• Support and contribute to donor and foundation relationships through
• Coordination with the GSB Development Office.
• Collaborate with the principal investigators and the Stanford University Research Compliance Office on institutional review board submissions for non-medical research.
• Prepare project memos, summaries, and presentations as needed to engage research partners in all stages of the research cycle.
• Collaborate with GSB and Staford-wide entities and contribute to building systems that facilitate good research practices within the labs (e.g., guidelines for research assistants, protocols for data storage, etc.).

To be successful in this position, you will bring:

• Advanced degree and five years of relevant experience in the area of specialization or combination of relevant education, training, and/or experience. For jobs with financial responsibilities, experience managing a budget and developing financial plans. Experience developing program partnerships and funding sources.
• Superior project management skills with exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to manage complex, multi-year projects from conception to completion.
• Proficiency in statistical languages such as STATA (preferred), Python, R.
• Ability to oversee and manage the work of doctoral students to support the conduct of study analysis. 
• Regimented organizational abilities accounting for a variety of project, personnel, financial, and research-related inputs.
• Excellent oral, written, and analytical skills, exhibiting fluency in an area of specialization and the ability to represent the needs of both labs to multiple stakeholders.
• Knowledge of managing budgets, developing financial plans, and fund accounting.
• Familiarity with academic institution financial management systems such as Oracle, Kuali, etc.
• Strategic thinking and ability to handle multiple projects at once, push forward external stakeholders, meet deadlines, and effectively manage time.
• Ability to balance the mix of multi-year high-level developments and day-to-day lower-level tasks. Ability and sound judgment shielding faculty directors from administrative tasks while recognizing decisions that need to be escalated and need direct faculty director input.

In addition, preferred requirements include:

• Preference will be given to a candidate with a second Masters, Ph.D, or JD.

The expected pay range for this position is $109,000 - $168,000 per annum.

Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.

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Why Stanford is for You
Stanford’s dedicated 16,000 staff come from diverse educational and career backgrounds. We are a collaborative environment that thrives on innovation and continuous improvement. At Stanford, we seek talent committed to excellence, driven to impact the future of our legacy, and improve lives on a global sphere. We provide competitive salaries, excellent health care and retirement plans, and a generous vacation policy, including additional time off during our winter closure. Our generous perks align with what matters to you:

• Freedom to grow. Take advantage of career development programs, tuition reimbursement, or audit a course. Join a Ted Talk, film screening, or listen to a renowned author or leader discuss global issues.
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• Discovery and fun. Visit campus gardens, trails, and museums.
• Enviable resources. We offer free commuter programs and ride-sharing incentives. Enjoy discounts for computers, cell phones, recreation, travel, entertainment, and more! 

We pride ourselves in being a culture that encourages and empowers you.

The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.

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