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The Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2), Community Innovation Services, is seeking a group manager for research. The EI2 Community Innovation Services team supports communities with economic and community development research, analysis and planning. Projects range from strategic planning to workforce analysis, from fiscal impact analysis of new or expanding firms to sustainable development strategies for communities of all sizes. The group manager is responsible for the successful completion of all funded projects, for overseeing and advising a team of high-performing project managers, and assigning projects to individual team members within CIS.

The Virginia Tech Office of Economic Development is seeking a program director, Strategic Alliances, National Capital Region. This individual will be responsible for building a collaborative program of applied research between university faculty, and corporate and government sponsors. Virginia Tech is a comprehensive, innovative research university with more than $400 million research expenditures in 2009 and off-campus research and educational facilities in regions around Virginia. The newest of these regional facilities will be the Virginia Tech Ballston Center, a seven-story, 144,000 square foot, LEED certified facility currently under construction in Arlington, Virginia. Key research programs planned for the facility will include informatics and cyber-security.