Research Administrator

Department

MED-Cancer Center

EXS/8

$70,017.00 - $98,462.00. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Provides administrative leadership and intermediate problem solving in support of unit's research programs and mission. May provide sole support to a small to mid-sized unit, or support a portion of activities in a larger unit. May provide lifecycle pre- and post-award research administration ensuring the fulfillment of all grant and/or contract and compliance requirements. Manages overall day-to-day research administration activities and may research and identify funding opportunities and faculty and/or PIs with associated research competencies and interests.

Ensures that all activities are completed in compliance with associated local, state, federal and institutional rules and regulations.

Supervisor provides objectives and deadlines. Work is reviewed for fulfillment of objective and deadlines and overall compliance with policy and procedures. Employee completes some activities without direction, informing supervisor only of potentially controversial matters, and/or far-reaching implications. Employee uses some judgment to adapt an advanced knowledge of skills, methods, practices, policies and/or procedures and a moderate degree of innovation, analysis and reasoning to complete.

• Relevant “SPOT” training courses offered by the Office for Sponsored Research (OSR)
• Research Administration Training series offered by the Office for Research Integrity (ORI)
• Effort Reporting and Management Course offered by ASRSP
• Online training in use of research enterprise systems such as Info Ed, NUFIN, and Cognos
• School of Continuing Studies course:
  Grantsmanship for the Research Professional
• NCURA-National Council of University Research Administrators/SRA - Society of Research Administrators International (regional or national meetings)
• Audit and Advisory best practices

• Typically administers multiple research projects such as:
• Multi-PI or multi-unit proposals, grants and/or contracts
• NIH U-approximately $600K+/yr. over multiple yrs.
• NIH P-approximately $600K+/yr. over multiple yrs.
• DoD and industry awards
• Multicomponent center or program project grants
• Proposals with cost sharing

• Manages pre-award administration of grants and/or contracts.
• Reviews solicitation and proactively resolves any issues/questions within the solicitation with OSR and/or sponsor.
• Establishes procedures at the small to mid-sized unit level related to pre-award administration.
• Coordinates large-scale proposals, teaming/collaboration agreements, confidentiality agreements, intellectual property agreements or user agreements.
• Manage representation of sub-recipients, cost sharing and administrative costs on a proposal.
• Coordinates the retrieval of IRB and IACUC protocols.
• Prepares and/or reviews complete budget.
• Assesses the need for the redistribution of project F&A among multiple redistributed chart strings.

• Completes post-award administration of research grants and/or contracts.
• Reviews account establishment.
• Manages effort commitments of key project personnel.
• Approves high-value/high-risk expenditures.
• Interprets awards documents.
• Reviews and reports expenditures.
• Verifies processing of cost share transactions.
• Develops and reviews expense status with PIs.
• Provides data needed for interim and final financial and technical progress reports.
• Facilitates account close out activities, coordinating with ASRSP as needed.
• Serves as liaison between department and SR, ASRSP, ACUC, IRB, internal audit, funding and regulatory agencies, subcontractors, collaborators, institutes, centers, and other stakeholders as needed.
• Participates in efforts to improve research administration including serving on university committees related to research administration.

• Oversees unit's entire sponsored project portfolio.
• Reviews transactions and resolve issues that requires a more complex level of financial understanding such as…