Senior Grant Administrator, Mass General Brigham AI Center

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Mass General Brigham Incorporated Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.

Job Summary Mass General Brigham AI is the bridge between academic research and product development—a center composed of clinicians, data scientists, product managers, technical project managers, and software engineers that translates research and innovation into clinical practice. The center houses end-to-end product development infrastructure, including world-class compute capabilities, and its portfolio spans AI/ML-enabled solutions across diagnostics, hospital operations, and specialty services.

Mass General Brigham is one of the nation’s leading biomedical research organizations and a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.

This center sits at an unusual intersection. It carries the sponsored-research obligations of an academic institution—federal grants, foundation awards, and subawards across MGH, BWH, and external collaborators—alongside the commercial-facing dynamics of a product organization, including industry co-development agreements, licensing relationships through MGB Innovation, milestone-based contracts, and AI/ML compute cost structures. The finance and grants function for this center therefore requires someone who can operate fluently in both worlds.

The Senior Grants Administrator is a combined leadership role responsible for the full financial lifecycle of the AI Center—operating budget management, multi-year forecasting, and financial reporting—together with end-to-end administration of the center’s sponsored research portfolio across both pre-award and post-award phases. This individual serves as the senior financial and grants authority within the center, the primary liaison to MGB central Research Management, Finance, and Innovation, and a trusted advisor to the center’s leadership, principal investigators, and program managers.

The role blends two distinct skill sets that are typically split across separate positions at peer institutions. Combining them is deliberate: a center of this scale and complexity benefits from a single accountable owner who understands how a grant budget, a department operating budget, an industry contract, and a compute-cost line all interact. The position is intended to function with significant autonomy and is expected to achieve and maintain Institutional Signing Authority.

Qualifications Required Bachelor ’s degree

At least 5-7 years of progressively responsible experience spanning both research grants administration and financial management, in an academic medical center, university, research institute, or comparable environment.

Preferred Prior experience working within the Mass General Brigham system is highly desirable.

Master’s degree (MBA, MPH, or related) and/or professional certification such as CRA (Certified Research Administrator) or CPA.Eligibility for, or prior attainment of, Institutional Signing Authority.

Experience administering industry-sponsored research agreements, subawards, and milestone-based contracts.

Familiarity with MGB systems (Insight, Workday/People Soft financials) or equivalent enterprise research and financial platforms.

Exposure to AI/ML, technology, or data-science cost structures (compute, cloud, data licensing).Experience supporting technology transfer,…