The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) is seeking a Director, Biomarkers Consortium for Translational Science to manage and lead the Biomarkers Consortium (BC), a premier partnership model of the FNIH, as well as a portfolio of large public-private research collaborations focused on identifying opportunities to validate and standardize assays, biomarkers, and drug development tools. The Director, BC will evaluate, establish, and lead research partnerships that positively impact FNIH's innovation, strategic, and revenue goals. The Director interacts with leading academic and industry scientists and clinicians, philanthropic research foundations, patient advocates, and governmental agencies to develop, maintain, and manage a complex, interrelated series of public-private partnerships.

The Director is responsible for BC strategic planning, including the development of new disease portfolios, securing program funding, coordinating and managing BC operations, policies, procedures, and resource allocations, and staffing executive and steering committees. The Director is a senior programmatic leader for engaging with communications and alliance managers to align program outcomes and membership with business objectives, supervising professional and support staff, developing program goals and objectives, fiscal management, and for coordinating the work of the BC with other ongoing FNIH initiatives. The position reports to the Vice President of Translational Science at FNIH.

This is a non-research, administrative management position requiring excellent interpersonal and writing skills, a high level of organization, diplomacy, focus, ability to work under tight deadlines, and familiarity with biomedical research environments.

The Director, BC will be expected to demonstrate thought leader-level abilities and management of complex partnerships in bio healthcare and translational science, including:

• Strong record of managing high-level relationships among scientific and administrative partners from diverse sectors of biomedical science (e.g., government, academia, and/or private sector partners, industry, and not-for-profit organizations) with a desire to provide service excellence.
• Diplomatically facilitates discussions involving diverse interests, leading groups to consensus and guiding other employees to enhance this skill.
• High degree of flexibility and adaptability to organizational priorities.
• Skill in written and oral communication requiring diplomacy in communicating with broad and diverse audiences.
• Readiness and judgment to supervise staff and assume additional responsibility for portfolio governance as required.
• Ability to create and identify a network of key external stakeholders to support and grow the portfolio.