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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Flexible Hybrid
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm
Posted Date
06/10/2026
Salary Range: $35.23 - 53.67 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
31124

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Department of Medicine is seeking a Fund Manager to oversee comprehensive pre- and post-award administration for a portfolio of intramurally and extramurally funded research awards. Reporting to the Division Administrator, Financial Affairs Manager, and other departmental leadership, this role works in close collaboration with research administrative staff to support Principal Investigators (PIs) across all phases of sponsored project management, including proposal development, award setup, financial oversight, compliance, reporting, and closeout. The Fund Manager plays a key role in ensuring accurate fiscal stewardship, regulatory compliance, and effective management of research funding in support of the Department’s academic and scientific mission.

Hourly range: $35.23-$53.67

Job Qualifications

Required:

  • 1-3 years of Financial, clerical or administrative experience
  • Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate information in a timely, professional manner and establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with students, staff, faculty, external collaborators, and administration and to work as a member of a team.
  • Ability to set priorities and complete ongoing tasks with competing deadlines, with frequent
  • interruptions, to meet the programmatic and financial needs of PIs and the department, while complying with university and funding agency policies and regulations.
  • Analytical skills to assess financial information, define problems, formulate logical solutions, develop alternative solutions, make recommendations, and initiate corrective actions
  • Close attention to detail to ensure accuracy in a fast-paced, fluctuating workload environment
  • Organization skills to create and maintain administrative and financial files effectively as well as independently balance the various tasks to ensure deadlines are met
  • Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe and Microsoft suite software, especially Excel, to perform daily tasks efficiently and accurately 

Preferred:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/administration or experience equivalent
  • 1-2 years of Research Administration experience

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an 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; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.