The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts  at the Georgia Institute of Technology invites applications for an Associate or Full Professor to serve as Director of the Energy, Policy, and Innovation Center (EPICenter), an interdisciplinary center reporting through the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) within the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR). Candidates are expected to demonstrate an exceptional commitment to the teaching of students.

The successful candidate will have an academic home in one of the academic schools in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts related to the candidate’s research profile and teaching expertise. Our faculty and students examine a wide range of social and humanistic issues, and numerous faculty focus their research and scholarship on energy markets, the energy transition, and the intersection of energy and climate, public health, and environmental health. Energy, climate, and environmental policy and economics are areas of research and academic specialization in both the School of Economics and the School of Public Policy. The faculty of the School of Public Policy lead the multidisciplinary Master of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management program, and the School of Economics offers a Ph.D. specialization in energy and environmental economics. Faculty in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs focus their research on global, strategic, comparative, and institutional dimensions to energy and environmental systems, resilience, and governance issues.  Similarly, the School of History and Sociology focuses on climate resilience and environmental activism, energy and environment, and food systems.

Job Responsibilities

• Instruct courses each academic year that align with research expertise, discipline, and mission of EPICenter and Georgia Tech.
• Lead and administer EPICenter, advancing Georgia Tech’s applied research and engagement with regional governmental and policy bodies by partnering, connecting, and promoting collaborations among faculty, other SEI leadership and Georgia Tech organizations, and external entities. 
• Mentor, develop, and steward EPICenter’s overall strategic direction, fundraising, key initiatives, and human resources.
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with key stakeholders, including academic faculty and research faculty at Georgia Tech, business, government, non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), and technology leaders.
• Contribute to Georgia Tech serving as a trusted energy R&D organization and source of impartial, fact-based information. 
• Build the research portfolio and thought leadership footprint of Georgia Tech by framing research initiatives that are vital to achieving societal energy policy and innovation goals, and amplifying the impact of new knowledge to advance societal goals at the local, regional, state, and national level, as well as promoting engagement of its research expertise with current issues facing society.
• Advise the Executive Director of the Strategic Energy Institute and broader Georgia Tech leadership on strategies to leverage EPICenter and its energy ecosystem approach for broader initiatives that fall outside of the southeastern region, including global partnerships and longer-term projects.
• This position will jointly report to the School Chair in the academic home department and the Executive Director of the Strategic Energy Institute.