Sr. Research Administrator

Responsibilities

• Post-Award Administration: organizes, plans, establishes and monitors fiscal budget control of contracts and grants administration, gifts, endowments, and privately funded projects for faculty research programs. Assists with post-award transactional duties include: effort and payroll administration, transaction approvals and compliance, expense reporting, financial projections, subcontract execution and subrecipient monitoring, invoice payments, sponsor reporting, and ledger reconciliation. Applies professional knowledge / experience to prepare, review, and / or approve financial transactions. Independently gathers information as needed to perform financial analysis. Coordinates and implements budget allocations, conceives of and maintains chart of accounts or other data management tools, and related business processes. Prepares journal entries, maintains and reconciles ledger accounts. Participates in gathering data from the general ledger for the collection of information for UBIT, preparing summary schedules, and either answering questions from departments or coordinating getting answers.
• Pre-Award Administration: prepares complex proposal budgets and support documents that are required by proposal guidelines in partnership with contacts at the Office of Sponsored Research. Stays up to date on sponsor policies and templates and assists study teams with non-scientific documents for contracts and grant submissions.
• Provides guidance and counsel on complex research administration matters, including compliance regulations, to principal investigators and department administrators. Assists with capacity building training for international collaborators, as applicable to their project and knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience.
• Thorough understanding of research administration guidelines of Federal and non-Federal sponsors supporting research and educational activities, preferably in a university environment.
• Thorough knowledge of applicable compliance requirements related to use of human or animal subjects in research, financial conflict of interest, biosafety, etc.
• Ability to manage significant volume of transactions.
• Ability to perform complex financial analysis and customized reporting.
• Demonstrated competence in the use of spreadsheet and database software in financial analysis, fiscal management and financial reports.
• Ability to maintain independent judgment; strong organization and communication skills; and a customer service focus across broad and diverse subject areas.
• Maintains current knowledge of compliance regulations in all areas of research administration.
• Demonstrated knowledge of generally accepted accounting, fiscal and reporting principles.
• Demonstrated knowledge of effective grant funding processes, procedures and techniques.
• Strong writing skills in a variety of styles to draft persuasive text for a variety of audiences while ensuring adherence to funding sponsor guidelines.