RESEARCH ADMINISTRATOR
Mechanical Engineering is responsible for coordinating the research administration financial activities and works closely with the Director in the ME-Research Administration (ME-RAS) and the departments (ME-RAS team) supporting sponsored research grants and contracts management and overall financial activities.
Duties include providing financial and budgeting support and preparing and analyzing budgets and financial reports for a portfolio of sponsored research projects. This position offers the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in sponsored award administration from pre-award through post-award, including budgeting and proposal development, with the possibility of utilizing advanced concepts such as cost-sharing and under-recovery.
Additionally, this position will expose the Research Administrator to a broad range of federal NIH NSF Dept. of Defense Dept. of Energy, etc. private non-profit research or fellowship foundations and industrial sponsors and consortia. There will be extensive interaction with faculty and staff in other central offices such as Research Administration Services (RAS) Sponsored Accounting and VPF.