How to pronounce “vice director” in English

What happens is he is offered a position as vice director at a new institute of biology in Siberia

So Belyaev knows now that, as vice director of this new institute of biology there, that he is going to have the power and the money

But because of all the administrative stuff he's going to have to do as vice director, what he's not going to have is the time to be the person

So there was the institute that Belyaev was involved in as vice director in biology.