Deputy Program Director for Business Development and Strategic Partnerships (Project-Program Director 5)

The Richard P. Feynman Center for Innovation (FCI) advances LANL’s scientific and engineering research through progressive approaches to developing and managing intellectual property and the technology transfer life cycle.  FCI fosters our innovation capacity by nurturing and sustaining key public/private partnerships, building a strategic portfolio of interagency work to enhance Laboratory mission impact, transitioning technologies to market for commercial implementation, and promoting regional economic development. 

FCI has a diverse set of business and technical specialists (~ 40 staff) that work across six collaborative teams: Agreements for Sponsored Research, Business Development, Intellectual Property Management, Innovation Assets and Data Management, Licensing, and Technology Engagement and Entrepreneurship.  The organization assists with agreements across the full spectrum of research done at LANL including a broad set of technical topics such as, biological, chemical and earth sciences, materials science, quantum information science, high performance computing and engineering. 

As the Deputy Program Director (DPD) of FCI, you will partner with the Program Director to lead all aspects of Technology Transfer and program direction at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Reporting to the FCI Program Director, you will provide technology transfer leadership for a premier DOE research and development organization. 

You will have broad responsibility for developing, implementing, and advancing FCI’s strategy to secure and exercise partnerships with non-DOE entities nationally and in the region.  You will also work closely with the FCI Program Director to lead the implementation of measures to strengthen Los Alamos’s position as a preferred partner in technology transfer.  These measures may include traditional federal technology transfer activities (e.g., Cooperative R&D Agreements, technology licenses, etc.) but extend into new and innovative programs to promote regional economic development.  The partnerships may be with large corporations or start-up companies and the technology areas for these agreements is diverse to reflect the multi-disciplinary nature of the cutting edge Los Alamos R&D that supports national security, energy security and other core DOE missions. 

Fundamental Responsibilities:

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  Work with the technical line organizations, and external organizations and individuals, to evaluate, negotiate, develop and maintain partnerships with private industries and/or academic institutions; Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration customers, and other government agencies;
  
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  Interface with the full spectrum of FCI’s customers, clients, partners, stakeholders, and senior managers to ensure the FCI functions smoothly and the risks inherent in innovation and technology transfer are recognized and managed;
  
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  Ensure that individual partnerships and commercialization thrusts are beneficial to and consistent with Laboratory institutional strategies and programmatic goals;
  
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  Oversee and be accountable for teams of specialists developing work and other partnership agreement documents such as CRADAs, Licenses, Strategic Partnership Projects Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, and agreements with academic Centers;
  
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  With the Program Director, work to integrate FCI business development and partnership endeavors with FCI Technology Engagement and Entrepreneurship (TEE) team;
  
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  With the Program Director, foster the relationship with DOE stakeholders at the Los Alamos Field Office and at DOE Headquarters and ensure it is productive and effective, and assume accountability for all work-agreement-related reporting requirements;
  
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  Ensure the quality of and guide the selection of sponsored work projects so as to maintain a healthy portfolio and balance among competing expectations. For example:  The Laboratory is expected to actively promote the transition of its taxpayer-funded technical inventions to the private sector and support the further development of these technologies via small projects with small to medium-size businesses, yet the Laboratory is also expected to develop and execute sensitive mission-supporting large projects with major US companies;
  
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  Work closely across FCI teams and Office of General Counsel – Intellectual Property (OGC-IP) to ensure alignment on intellectual property development and licensing strategies and activities.
  

What You Need

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Desired Qualifications:

Location: This position will be physically located in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Position commitment:  Regular appointment employees are required to serve a period of continuous service in their current position in order to be eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory. If an employee has not served the time required, they may only apply for Laboratory jobs with the documented approval of their Division Leader. The position commitment for this position is 1 year.  

Located in beautiful northern New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. Our generous benefits package includes:

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  PPO or High Deductible medical insurance with the same large nationwide network
  
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  Dental and vision insurance
  
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  Free basic life and disability insurance
  
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  Paid maternity and parental leave
  
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  Award-winning 401(k) (6% matching plus 3.5% annually)
  
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  Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
  
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  Flexible schedules and time off (paid sick, vacation, and holidays)
  
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  Onsite gyms and wellness programs
  
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  Extensive relocation packages (outside a 50 mile radius)
  

New-Employment Drug Test: The Laboratory requires successful applicants to complete a new-employment drug test and maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing.