Manager, Research Support (SPORE)

CORE JOB SUMMARY

The Manager, Research Support provides program support to facilitate research. Furthermore, the incumbent oversees research operations to ensure efficiency and compliance with applicable regulations.

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS

• Coordinate with all relevant counterparts at all participating institutions who report to their respective MPIs as well as to project administrators.
• Plan and facilitate regular meetings with project investigators, staff, board members, and other stakeholders, held on varying schedules (weekly, biweekly, monthly, semi-annually, annually), to address process improvements across multiple components of research programs.
• Create and maintain scholar/participant databases and correspondence, including recommendation requests from past scholars and letters from appropriate entities.
• Manage application processes, including responding to information requests, sending application status updates, tracking acceptance responses (with reasons for declining), and processing contracts.
• Ensure coordination between research program activities within the broader Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (SCCC).
• Aids senior management in the preparation of grant reports.

DEPARTMENT SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS

• Direct and manage daily operations of research programs ensuring objectives, timelines, and compliance requirements are met.
• Coordinate with all relevant counterparts at all participating institutions who report to their respective MPIs as well as to the sponsor administrators.
• Facilitate regular coordination of meetings with Project Investigators (PIs), staff, board members, and other stakeholders, held on varying schedules (weekly, biweekly, monthly, semi-annually, annually), to address process improvements across multiple components of the programs.
• Create and maintain scholar/participant databases and correspondence, including recommendation requests from past scholars and letters from appropriate entities.
• Manage application processes, including responding to information requests, sending application status updates, tracking acceptance responses (with reasons for declining), and processing contracts.
• Deliverables, Reporting & Compliance
  • NIH/NCI RPPR submissions
  • Renewal applications
  • External Advisory Board (EAB), Internal Advisory Board (IAB), and Community Advisory Board (CAB) meetings and associated reports
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
  • Serve as primary administrative point of contact for the research project assigned.
  • Cookordination activities with research project stakeholders, including faculty, staff, advisory boards, and community partners.
  • Support integration of advisory boards into program planning, operations, and evaluation.
  • Develop and implement communication strategies to disseminate program goals, outcomes, and opportunities internally and externally.
  • Manage the full lifecycle of program deliverables: tracking, template generation, draft and slide preparation, review workflows, and reviewer communication.
• Program Evaluation & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Aid in the planning and delivery of program activities and evaluation, including feedback from participants.
  • Use evaluation results to inform program improvements and strategic planning.
• Fiscal & Administrative Management
  • Track program budgets and expenditures, ensuring compliance with sponsor and institutional requirements.
  • Cookordinate with IT to ensure up-to-date program websites with accurate content, including application details, key dates, forms, and archived program records.
  • Cookoperate with Sylvester Post-Award administrator to manage subcontracts and grant expenditures.
• Strategic Planning & Communication
  • Develop and implement communication strategies to disseminate program goals and outcomes.
  • Prepare materials for internal and external presentations.

  QUALIFICATIONS

  • Education: Ability to work in a very busy environment and manage multiple initiatives that overlap in time. Flexibility and team building skills.
  • Computer skills, including familiarity with Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X, Office suite of programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher and Outlook/Exchange), Adobe Acrobat and Qualtrics. Familiarity with social media platforms is desirable.
  • Certification and Licensing: Experience: Coordinating and delivering multi-investigator or multi-site research projects. Facilitating meetings, preparing reports, and supporting strategic planning. Ensuring research activities comply with institutional and federal guidelines.
  • Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes: Understanding of grant-funded projects and scientific protocols. Understanding of IRB, and other regulatory bodies. Knowledge of monitoring and executing budgets for research projects.

  COMPENSATION

  The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.