GW Trustworthy AI Program Director

• Executive partnership and strategic leadership. Serve as the Executive Director’s trusted partner for planning, prioritization, execution, and follow-through. Help establish annual and multi-year priorities, prepare leadership briefings and decision materials, track commitments and key milestones, surface risks and dependencies, and ensure timely resolution of issues that span programs or organizational units.
• Initiative and portfolio management. Lead the planning and execution of high-priority, cross-cutting TAI initiatives. Develop workplans, timelines, governance structures, success measures, and accountability mechanisms; coordinate contributors across schools and functional areas; and maintain visibility into progress, resource needs, and outcomes.
• University-wide coordination and governance. Act as a central point of coordination for TAI across GW. Build strong working relationships with faculty leaders, researchers, school leadership, academic and administrative offices, communications teams, development and corporate relations staff, and other relevant units. Organize leadership meetings, establish effective decision processes, document decisions, and drive cross-university follow-up. 
• Operations, budget, and resource stewardship. Direct the administration and operations of GW TAI, including planning and monitoring, resource allocation, contracts and purchasing coordination, fellowship administration, program records, reporting, space and materials, and operational policies and processes. Develop scalable systems that support growth, accountability, and efficient execution. 
• Programs, research community, and student engagement. Provide strategic oversight for TAI’s core constituent programs and community-building activities, including seminars, summer incubators, mentorship programs, fellowships, convenings, and other faculty- and student-facing initiatives. Guide the development of new programming and ensure that program design, delivery, and evaluation align with TAI priorities. 
• External partnerships and representation. In partnership with the Executive Director and faculty leadership, cultivate and manage relationships with government, industry, nonprofit, philanthropic, and academic partners. Represent GW TAI in selected internal and external meetings, develop partnership opportunities, coordinate institutional responses and follow-up, and help position TAI as a visible and credible convener in trustworthy AI. 
• Communications, visibility, and impact. Oversee coordinated communications and marketing for TAI in partnership with relevant university teams. Ensure that web content, program materials, presentations, reports, and stakeholder communications clearly convey TAI’s strategy, activities, and impact. Develop metrics and reporting that support leadership decision-making and demonstrate progress to internal and external stakeholders. 
• Issue resolution and executive escalation. Serve as a senior escalation point for complex program, operational, or stakeholder issues. Resolve matters within delegated authority, frame options and recommendations for the Executive Director when decisions are required, and ensure that sensitive or high-impact issues are handled with sound judgment, discretion, and appropriate coordination.
• Team and organizational leadership. Lead, coordinate, and develop TAI staff, temporary employees, student workers, fellows, and project teams as assigned. Clarify roles and accountabilities, set expectations, coach contributors, and build a high-performing, responsive operating culture. As the initiative grows, the Director may assume direct supervisory responsibility for additional staff.
  
  

• Education. Master’s degree or higher in a relevant field preferred. Relevant fields may include public policy, public administration, business, higher education administration, technology, engineering, computer science, or a related discipline.
• Relevant experience. Professional experience in program leadership, organizational management, higher education, research administration, technology initiatives, public policy, or a related environment; experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives strongly preferred.
• Strategic and executive partnership. Demonstrated ability to serve as a trusted partner to senior leadership, translate broad goals into actionable plans, prepare decision materials and recommendations, manage competing priorities, and drive disciplined follow-through with limited supervision.
• Cross-functional leadership. Proven ability to lead through influence across organizational boundaries and work effectively with senior administrators, faculty, researchers, staff, students, and external stakeholders.
• Program, project, and financial management. Strong experience with program and project management, including strategic planning, budgeting, resource allocation, risk management, evaluation, reporting, and continuous improvement.
• Communication and representation. Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level materials, delivering presentations, facilitating high-level meetings, and representing an organization with internal and external audiences.
• External engagement. Demonstrated ability to build and sustain productive relationships with government, industry, nonprofit, philanthropic, academic, or other external partners. Experience in AI, technology, research, higher education, or public policy is highly desirable.
• Leadership and judgment. Demonstrated leadership, sound judgment, discretion, diplomacy, initiative, responsiveness, and a high degree of professionalism. Experience supervising staff, project teams, or cross-functional teams is preferred.

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