Job Identification: 44453
Job Category: Research
Apply Before: 10/30/2026, 02:12 PM
Degree Level: Doctorate Degree
Locations: 4202 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL, 33620, US
Hiring Salary: $91,637 - $115,000
Essential Personnel: No
Job Description
Organizational Summary:
The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida is a diverse, research active community of scholars, teachers, creators, and learners who believe that ideas should live both in the classroom and in the world. We bring together the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to tackle real problems through learning that involves doing, including fieldwork on Florida's coast, work in laboratories, data-focused projects, and storytelling across digital and traditional media. Our faculty are nationally recognized researchers and dedicated mentors who open doors to significant opportunities such as undergraduate research, internships, fellowships, and global experiences. We are especially proud of our vibrant humanities and social sciences, where students connect big questions to real careers through funded experiential learning and projects that engage the community. Rooted in Tampa Bay and connected to global conversations, we see our campus as a living laboratory for studying the environment, society, culture, and technology, and we invite colleagues who share this spirit of curiosity, collaboration, and innovation focused on students to join us.
Position Summary
The University of South Florida seeks an experienced scientist to provide scientific, technical, and operational leadership for its Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Core Facility. The NMR Core supports multidisciplinary research across chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, materials science, pharmaceutical sciences, engineering, medicine, and related fields.
The NMR Core Facility Director will lead the facility as a modern, research-enabling shared resource consistent with the expectations of an AAU research university. The Director is responsible for maintaining a high-performing NMR instrumentation portfolio; providing advanced scientific consultation and experimental support; training users; ensuring reliable and safe facility operations; managing scheduling, billing, and cost recovery; and developing a long-term strategy for instrumentation renewal and expansion.
A central expectation of the position is to enable and expand research, rather than simply maintain instrumentation. The Director will actively engage investigators in experimental design, development of new NMR capabilities, preparation of grant proposals, and adoption of advanced NMR methods that increase the scientific impact and competitiveness of USF research.
Leadership Expectations
The NMR Core Facility Director is expected to function as a scientific partner to the USF research community. The position therefore requires a combination of deep NMR expertise, service orientation, operational discipline, and entrepreneurial scientific leadership.
The successful Director should be visible and engaged with faculty, understand emerging research needs across the university, identify opportunities where NMR can enable new scholarship and external funding, and continually develop the facility's capabilities in response to those needs.
The Director should also establish a culture in which the Core is viewed not simply as a collection of instruments, but as a university research infrastructure platform that increases investigator productivity, supports interdisciplinary collaboration, strengthens grant competitiveness, trains students and researchers, and enables scientific discovery.
Responsibilities
Scientific and Technical Leadership - 30%
Job Category: Research
Apply Before: 10/30/2026, 02:12 PM
Degree Level: Doctorate Degree
Locations: 4202 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL, 33620, US
Hiring Salary: $91,637 - $115,000
Essential Personnel: No
Job Description
Organizational Summary:
The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida is a diverse, research active community of scholars, teachers, creators, and learners who believe that ideas should live both in the classroom and in the world. We bring together the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to tackle real problems through learning that involves doing, including fieldwork on Florida's coast, work in laboratories, data-focused projects, and storytelling across digital and traditional media. Our faculty are nationally recognized researchers and dedicated mentors who open doors to significant opportunities such as undergraduate research, internships, fellowships, and global experiences. We are especially proud of our vibrant humanities and social sciences, where students connect big questions to real careers through funded experiential learning and projects that engage the community. Rooted in Tampa Bay and connected to global conversations, we see our campus as a living laboratory for studying the environment, society, culture, and technology, and we invite colleagues who share this spirit of curiosity, collaboration, and innovation focused on students to join us.
Position Summary
The University of South Florida seeks an experienced scientist to provide scientific, technical, and operational leadership for its Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Core Facility. The NMR Core supports multidisciplinary research across chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, materials science, pharmaceutical sciences, engineering, medicine, and related fields.
The NMR Core Facility Director will lead the facility as a modern, research-enabling shared resource consistent with the expectations of an AAU research university. The Director is responsible for maintaining a high-performing NMR instrumentation portfolio; providing advanced scientific consultation and experimental support; training users; ensuring reliable and safe facility operations; managing scheduling, billing, and cost recovery; and developing a long-term strategy for instrumentation renewal and expansion.
A central expectation of the position is to enable and expand research, rather than simply maintain instrumentation. The Director will actively engage investigators in experimental design, development of new NMR capabilities, preparation of grant proposals, and adoption of advanced NMR methods that increase the scientific impact and competitiveness of USF research.
Leadership Expectations
The NMR Core Facility Director is expected to function as a scientific partner to the USF research community. The position therefore requires a combination of deep NMR expertise, service orientation, operational discipline, and entrepreneurial scientific leadership.
The successful Director should be visible and engaged with faculty, understand emerging research needs across the university, identify opportunities where NMR can enable new scholarship and external funding, and continually develop the facility's capabilities in response to those needs.
The Director should also establish a culture in which the Core is viewed not simply as a collection of instruments, but as a university research infrastructure platform that increases investigator productivity, supports interdisciplinary collaboration, strengthens grant competitiveness, trains students and researchers, and enables scientific discovery.
Responsibilities
Scientific and Technical Leadership - 30%
- Provide expert scientific leadership for solution-state and, where applicable, solid-state NMR spectroscopy.