The Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience (ICAR) in the Office of Enterprise Research and Innovation (OERI) at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, is inviting applications for an administrative and professional faculty Assistant Director for Engagement to support ICAR’s collaborations with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

ICAR advances the practice of coastal resilience and adaptation by engaging with communities, organizations, and businesses to develop and deploy solutions based on integrated, innovative, and applied research. This position is part of a unique collaboration with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) funded by the Commonwealth of Virginia. As such, this position provides unique opportunities to advance applied, community engaged research in Virginia’s coastal zone as well as an expectation to provide technical capacity and assistance to Virginia localities, Commonwealth agencies, businesses, and nonprofits. The ICAR Assistant Director for Engagement will fill a critical gap in Hampton Roads for outreach, coordination, technical assistance, and scientific synthesis and integration capacity on coastal adaptation and resilience issues. The objectives of the Assistant Director of Engagement for ICAR are to communicate effectively about coastal adaptation and resilience external to and internally within ODU, to facilitate and conduct community-engaged research that supports inclusive resilience, to connect communities for knowledge exchange, and to support the development of the resilience workforce. This position requires providing vision for ICAR’s engagement portfolio and designing programs and projects with minimal supervision to implement practices for climate adaptation and coastal resilience. The successful candidate will manage existing ICAR engagement initiatives but also convene teams of faculty and community members to develop, write proposals for, and manage engagement in innovative initiatives requiring co-production in communities for resilience and adaptation.