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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fixed Hybrid
Work Schedule
Monday- Friday 8am-5pm
Posted Date
10/10/2024
Salary Range: $5733.33 - 11750 Monthly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
19245

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Join our dynamic team and play a crucial role in advancing our research efforts! As a key member of our administrative team, you will work closely with the Department Chair, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and other department leaders. You will also collaborate with other dedicated research administrative staff to ensure the smooth and efficient management of all pre-award processes for both internal and external research funding.

Your primary responsibility will be to support our Departmental Principal Investigators (PIs) by overseeing the preparation, submission, and administration of research awards. This role is essential to our mission of securing funding that drives groundbreaking research and innovation.


Salary: $5,733.33 - $11,750.00 monthly

Job Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of research administration experience.
  • Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate information in a timely, professional manner.
  • Ability to set priorities and complete ongoing tasks with competing deadlines, with frequent interruptions, to meet programmatic and financial needs.
  • Close attention to detail in a fast-paced, fluctuating workload environment.
  • Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe and Microsoft suite software, especially Excel.
  • Experience preparing, managing, and projecting budgets.
  • Strong writing skills in a variety of styles to draft persuasive text for a variety of audiences while ensuring adherence to funding sponsor’s guidelines.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of effective grant funding processes, procedures and techniques
  • Ability to perform complex financial analysis and customized reporting
 

Preferred:

  • Mathematical skills for the preparation of complex calculations and forecasts and to identify and resolve complicated financial scenarios.
  • Knowledge of and experience working with a variety of external sponsors, federal and state sponsors, private foundations, industry sponsors, etc.
  • High School Diploma

 

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.