Associate Director, Research Animal Welfare

About the role

The Associate Director, Research Animal Welfare serves as the Attending Veterinarian for assigned Texas A&M University System members, providing veterinary oversight, compliance support, and programmatic leadership for animal care and use programs.

Key responsibilities

• Provide clinical veterinary consultation, diagnostics, treatments, preventive medicine, and emergency response for research animals.
• Develop, review, and implement animal care and use programs in compliance with USDA, NIH, AAALAC, DoD/ACURO and other regulations.
• Serve as veterinary member or alternate on Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUCs), reviewing protocols and participating in inspections.
• Support institutions in USDA inspections, OLAW oversight, sponsor reviews, and AAALAC accreditation activities.
• Collaborate with the Director to implement system‑wide veterinary oversight, training, and harmonization initiatives.

Required profile

• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) from an AVMA‑accredited college.
• Minimum five years of progressive experience in laboratory animal medicine, research animal program oversight, or IACUC administration.
• Ability to obtain a Texas veterinary license and willingness to travel up to 50% of the time.

Required skills

• Veterinary clinical diagnostics
• Surgical veterinary procedures
• Animal care program oversight
• IACUC protocol review and compliance assessment

What we offer

• Competitive health benefits and paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
• Defined benefit retirement plan through the Teachers Retirement System of Texas.
• Tuition assistance and wellness programs to promote work‑life balance.
• Opportunities to influence system‑wide animal welfare and research compliance initiatives.