Chief Operating Officer, Global Futures Laboratory Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona Arizona State University (ASU) is seeking an operationally-savvy leader to serve as its inaugural Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory (GFL). This is a rare opportunity to work closely with senior leadership at ASU to provide support in advancing the unique and innovative approach of the laboratory. Using the model of the multi-focused National Laboratories, the Global Futures Laboratory is creating a platform for an ongoing and wide-ranging exchange across all knowledge domains to address the complex social, economic, and scientific challenges spawned by the current and future threats from environmental degradation. The COO will play a central role in supporting the GFL in achieving its goals by providing leadership, management, strategic planning, and direction to advance the laboratory’s non-academic initiatives and programs toward implementation. A leading public university based in the metropolitan Phoenix area, ASU is realizing a bold reinvention of higher education as the New American University. Under the leadership of President Michael Crow, ASU has developed numerous programs and units that bridge and transcend disciplinary boundaries to enable the exploration and discovery of new knowledge while developing solutions to serve Arizona and the world at large. The university has strong and simultaneous commitments to educational attainment, innovation, and sustainable outcomes, and assumes significant responsibility for the cultural, social, and economic vitality of its surrounding communities. This strategy is built around intellectual fusion, use-inspired research, and scholarship that addresses today’s largest and most essential societal problems.The emergence of the Global Futures Laboratory is the result of a 16-year effort to systematically build ASU’s discovery, learning, problem-solving, and engagement mission — and at a scale unmatched by any other university or research entity. This includes the construction of the new, approximately 281,000-gross-square-foot, five-story, high-performance research facility, now known as the Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health, which promotes a transdisciplinary approach to knowledge generation and leading-edge research intent on improving life on the planet.Working in support of the Vice President and Vice Provost of the Global Futures Laboratory, the COO will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of GFL by providing leadership and operational oversight for complex projects. They will be a critical player in translating the GFL’s ambitious vision into reality by helping to ensure a nimble and responsive organization, cultivating strong relationships across a variety of stakeholders, and bringing the intellectual capacity, energy, and real-world experience to bridge GFL science and practice to ensure the impactful execution of projects. While the COO will be responsive to changing priorities, initial projects may include integrating the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) into ASU, representing ASU on The Sustainability Consortium board, and providing senior-level management to various teams to successfully commercialize new technologies in carbon capture.Screening of complete applications will begin immediately and continue until the completion of the search process/until the position is filled. Electronic submission of materials is required.David Bellshaw is leading this search with Hayden Lizotte and Drew Nichols. Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please visit: https://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd401.html and https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/. APPLY NOMINATE contact Drew Nichols Full Description