Title and Standard Job Description Library

• Job Summary: The job summary is a brief statement explaining the primary functions of the job, including its main purpose and overall goal.
  Directs facilitation efforts and projects for various state-of-the-art cyber infrastructure (CI) systems, tools, and software to enhance research productivity. Partners with facilitators and researchers to co-create and co-learn research activities and relevant advanced computing and data capabilities both locally and nationally. Manages unit staff and develops and executes strategic initiatives regarding facilitation, training and education investments, outreach and engagement, and grant activities. Participates in and/or leads cross-functional management teams and projects. Establishes partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to advise on institutional CI investments.
• Job Responsibilities: Job responsibilities are the core job duties that people in this job usually perform.
  • Engages with researchers in their selection and use of relevant CI services, systems, tools, and computing strategies. Leverages an understanding of specific research activities and their use of CI solutions to serve as a liaison between research projects and collaborators and guide other staff in doing so. Recommends enhancements to workflows, software, and tools, and provides in-depth consultation to research projects in cooperation with supervised staff
  • Connects and coordinates interactions between researchers and technology providers. Directs and coordinates communications with systems and software/data professionals on the design of service enhancements
  • Develops and executes strategic direction for documentation and training of researchers to maximize their use of CI. Serves as a subject matter expert for trainings relevant to specific areas of science domain and technology, software, or tools
  • Communicates with internal and external collaborators around facilitation and service models. Contributes to strategic initiatives with research CI community members, presents at conferences, and/or publishes in peer reviewed journals
  • Provides consultation and contributes leadership for research proposals. May serve as Principal Investigator on research and/or CI proposals
  • Directs regular communications to researchers and other internal and external stakeholders. Participates in the planning and development of significant IT and research computing initiatives and strategies
  • Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• Education: Education describes the minimum level of education that people in this job usually have. Education that is a preferred minimum is recommended for this job but not required. Relevant work experience can satisfy preferred minimum education. A hiring manager may include additional education requirements when recruiting for a position.
  Master's Degree Preferred Minimum
• FLSA Status: Federal regulations determine Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) status. Employees who are non-exempt receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week. Employees who are exempt do not receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week.
  Exempt
• Institution Job: A job that has primary responsibilities that impact the majority or the entirety of the institution, or has significantly larger scope than the school/college/division in which it resides, and typically contains “(Inst)” in the job title or mentions “institution” or “enterprise” in a standard job description.
  No
• Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees: The supervisor directly oversees the equivalent of at least 2.0 FTE employees or indirectly oversees one or more supervisors. The supervisor has the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, promote, manage conduct and performance, discharge, assign, reward, and discipline employees. The supervisor typically reviews the work of employees and may approve employee timesheets.
  Yes
• Employee Category: Each employee category is unique in type of work performed, job security, benefits package, and/or ability to organize unions. Assignment to an employee category is based upon job title. Refer to the UW–Madison Employment Categories policy for more information.
  Academic Staff
• Scaled Job: Jobs with the same title may have a different scope of work based on the school, college, or division where the work is performed. Scaling recognizes these differences based on the scope, impact, and complexity of the work performed. A scaled job title has multiple salary grades to align with market data. Learn more about job scaling.
  No
• Salary Range (Annual): Jobs in the same salary grade have similar pay in the market. Each salary grade has a salary range that includes a minimum and a maximum. A job is paid between the minimum and maximum of its salary grade. Learn more about UW's salary structure.
  27: $95,824-178,232
• Job Code: A job code identifies jobs in the university’s human resources system.
  RE080: Research Cyberinfrastructure Facilitation Manager

Knowledges and Skills Learning Resources

Each standard job description is linked to a list of knowledges and skills. Knowledges and skills are optional resources to support employee learning and development. Visit the Knowledges and Skills Learning Resources website to learn more.

• Knowledges: Understanding of concepts.
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  • Administration and Management
  • Computers and Electronics
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Education and Training
  • Mathematics
• Skills: Capabilities and proficiencies developed through training and experience. Learn more about knowledges and skills.
  • Active Listening
  • Critical Thinking
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Speaking
  • Systems Analysis