Budget Analyst - Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering

Hiring Department
:
Biomedical Eng
- Engineering

Location
:
Chicago, IL USA

Requisition : 1042920

FTE
: 1

Work Schedule
:
Monday
- Friday

Shift
:
Days

# of Positions
: 1

Workplace Type
:
Hybrid

Salary Range (commensurate with experience): $51,800. / Annual Salary

UIC is among the nation's preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU/VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago. UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).

Through its 16 colleges, UIC produces nationally and internationally recognized multidisciplinary academic programs in concert with civic, corporate and community partners worldwide, including a full complement of health sciences colleges. By emphasizing cutting-edge and transformational research along with a commitment to the success of all students, UIC embodies the dynamic, vibrant and engaged urban university. Recent "Best Colleges" rankings published by U.S. News & World Report, found UIC climbed up in its rankings among top public schools in the nation and among all national universities.

UIC has nearly 260,000 alumni, and is one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago.

This position is intended to be eligible for benefits. This includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

Coordinate the grant proposal submissions and manage department grants. Oversee the P-cards and T-cards and purchasing for the department. Manages departmental contracts.

• Assists the Director of Departmental Business Affairs to post, update, and reconcile transactions for various funds.
• Manages faculty start-up institutional research funds.
• Processes subcontract budgeting, re-budgeting requests, and consulting agreements.
• Processes faculty expenditure requests and reimbursements.
• Provides other support for faculty research activities.
• Assists in managing faculty research funds.
• Assists the director in budget preparation, contracts, grant close out calculations, consultant agreements, and small business plan for subcontracts.
• Prepares budget for various sponsored research grants and contracts as well as internal awards, uploads and routes proposals in electronic systems or grant portals, communications with PI and central office to ensure timely approval for budgets and submission of proposals.
• Prepares Proposal Approval Forms (PAF) for central office approvals. Tracks and files approved PAFs for department records.
• Maintains budget files and proposal files for submitted and awarded proposals, updates and maintains internal grant proposal database.
• Setting up files for new awards and verify the budget entries in Banner.
• Communicates with grant office for budget entry correction or other necessary changes.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in Business administration, accounting, finance, economics or a related field.
• Additional knowledge, education, training and/or sponsored project experience in the area of specialization inherent to the position.
• Knowledge of University policies and procedures related to sponsored projects or experience in another university setting.
• Excellent communication, customer service, and organizational skills.
• Strong quantitative, technical and computer skills; proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to work independently and exercise judement in order to be able to analyze a variety of questions and problems.

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