CIMR Research Administrator

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Summary:

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine is a premier academic medical center located in the heart of Richmond. Accounting for almost half of VCU’s sponsored research, the School of Medicine is internationally recognized for patient care and education. Virginia Commonwealth University is an equal opportunity employer.

School Of Medicine MBU

Neurology

The Department of Neurology has a talented, robust team of faculty and staff members spanning nine divisions including representatives from every neurology subspecialty in adult and child neurology, plus award‑winning educators, clinical and translational neuroscientists and master clinicians.

The Department of Neurology’s vision is to provide the best patient‑centered neurological care while fostering the career development, education and training of our team members. We endeavor to realize this vision by fulfilling the following three missions:

• Improve the lives of children and adults with neurological disorders through compassionate, high‑quality medical care and patient education.
• Provide exceptional education to our students, residents, fellows and the wider community of medical professionals.
• Advance the knowledge of neurological diseases by actively developing innovative treatments through basic, translational and clinical research.

Position Summary:

As part of the Center for Inherited Myology Research, this Research Administrator would provide administrative support to the program, including grant and financial management of the related muscular dystrophy consortiums. These consortiums oversee multiple sites and awards designed to develop therapies for the muscular dystrophies. The Research Administrator will be responsible for providing direct pre and post award support for the Program.

The Research Administrator will also contribute to infrastructure, personnel, policy, and process development for the program.

Core Responsibilities:

• Pre-Award Support (55%)
  • Work directly with investigators on assigned proposal submissions to ensure proposals meet technical, administrative and financial requirements, as well as ensuring deadlines are met and established policies and requirements of both VCU and sponsoring agencies are met. Submissions include federal grant proposals as well as other sponsoring agencies.
  • Assist with the proposal development and establish necessary timelines with the Investigators to ensure deadlines are met for all submissions assigned.
  • Create a management plan and communicate clearly with the Principal Investigators on submission requirements and assignments; ensure roles, responsibilities and timelines are clear for each proposal assigned.
  • Prepare non‑technical components of submissions seeking PI input where needed: budget, budget narrative, coordinating administrative requirements for sub recipients, preparing RAMS‑SPOT submissions, completing sponsor forms, etc.
  • Prepare clinical trial budgets and negotiate with sponsors as needed, with a clear understanding of various implications and reaching out to OSP as required and/or needed.
  • Prepare cost share authorizations and advance index requests seeking department approvals as needed.
  • Review terms and conditions of awards and communicate special terms to Investigators and department administration as needed.
  • Provide data and assist supervisor as needed to prepare department level pre‑award reporting for areas assigned.
• Post‑Award Research Administration and Compliance Monitoring (30%)
  • Provide financial and administrative support of program sponsored research portfolios as assigned to include: grants, cooperative agreements and contracts including industry clinical trials.
  • Work with investigators to establish new awards and initiate spending; ensure award financial record and budget are accurate in university systems.
  • Provide financial and administrative support including monthly reviews of: expenditures, projections, personnel allocations and cost share indexes. Ensure expenses allocated to project are allowable, reasonable and allocable. Compliance concerns should be brought to supervisor and…