Research Administrator 2

The UCSD Mathematics Department is a dynamic unit with 69 faculty members and approximately 30+ additional non-FTEs in various instructional and research titles. These academics work on a broad range of research funded by diverse federal, state, and private agencies. The department comprises dedicated career staff, 180 Master's and Ph.D. students, and over 2,400 undergraduate students. Together, they generate high-caliber research in various fields and provide an outstanding graduate program that attracts top-ranked students, contributing to the department’s academic reputation. The department maintains a large undergraduate program that prepares over 2,400 pure and applied mathematics majors, as well as students from 57 other majors across the campus. This program provides a strong fundamental background in mathematics needed to succeed in various career options. The faculty are engaged in a vigorous research program with an average of 60 active awards in many interdisciplinary areas, totaling approximately $20 million per year. The instructional program enrolls approximately 30,000 graduate and undergraduate students annually. As the fundamental language of science, mathematics is an essential intellectual tool required by a trained workforce to create the technological advances of the future. This is a professional position at the intermediate level, fully operational level of the Research Administrator series. The incumbent applies acquired job skills, policies, and procedures to complete substantive assignments / projects / tasks of moderate scope and complexity; exercises judgment within defined guidelines and practices to determine appropriate action.