DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.

The Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center (SCTL Center) at the University of Washington has an outstanding opportunity for a Development Manager.  The SCTL Center improves supply chain transportation and logistics practices through education, transformative research, and engagement with industry and the public sector.  The SCTL Center’s core expertise is found in the nexus of business, infrastructure, and public policy.  The Center’s team are international thought leaders in supply chain transportation and logistics systems, including urban freight, and these systems’ intersection with both the public and privately built environments.  The Center provides insights for students, industry leaders and practitioners, public sector officials, and the academic and research communities in freight transportation, supply chain, transportation and logistics.

The Center participates in data collection, interpretation, and developing understanding as well as analytical model development and pilot testing of technology applications.  The Center builds professional networks and develops benchmarked best practices in support of industry productivity and building sustainable communities.  The Center is a self-sustaining, non-profit organization within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

The Development Manager plays a vital role in ensuring that the Center’s Urban Freight Lab has a clear strategic vision for research, communicates that vision effectively, and has the partnerships and resources to implement that vision.   The manager serves as a primary external liaison for the Center; developing project leads, developing and responding to funding opportunities.  As such, they work closely with the Center’s director and research staff.  This individual will regularly exercise independent judgement and discretion especially in day-to-day contact with current and prospective funders, industry representatives, and public sector partners.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
External SCTL Center Relations and Thought Leadership (70%)