Research Administrator

Research Administrator

The Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) within Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine is recruiting a research administrator to collaboratively support IPHAM's faculty with pre and post award grants management.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Pre-Award:
  Manages pre-award administration of grants &/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. Prepares &/or reviews complete budget.
  
  Assesses the need for the redistribution of project F&A among multiple redistributed chartstrings.
• Post-Award:
  Completes post-award administration of research grants &/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. Reviews award budget 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.
  
  Establishes procedures at the small to mid-sized unit level related to post-award administration.
• Financial:
  Oversees unit's entire sponsored project portfolio. Reviews transactions and resolve issues that requires a more complex level of financial understanding such as cost-sharing &/or effort reporting knowledge. Provides information to senior management that is used for department budgeting purposes.
• Compliance:
  Ensures compliance with all appropriate NU policies & practices; local, state, federal, agency & sponsor rules, regulations & requirements regarding grant &/or contract administration. Alerts supervisor to potential higher risk compliance issues.
• Miscellaneous:
  Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree; OR appropriate combination of education and experience. 3 years research administration or other relevant experience required.

Target hiring range for this position will be $70,017 – $87,522 per year. 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.

Benefits:
At Northwestern, we are proud to provide meaningful and competitive benefits. The available benefits package for this position will include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance; paid vacation and holidays; paid medical/sick and parental leave; tuition benefits for the employee and dependents; pre-tax and flex spending accounts for commuting and dependent care; generous retirement savings options; and wellness programs.