UNC Institute for Trauma Recovery within the Department of Psychiatry seeks to advance understanding of trauma recovery and develop interventions that improve recovery. The foundation of our past and current success is our fantastic team of faculty and staff. Our team believes that achieving new discoveries for trauma survivors around the globe, via the conduct of observational studies and randomized controlled trials, is an extremely meaningful and satisfying way to spend one’s professional life. We work to place the trauma survivor at the center of all of our decisions and to serve them through our work. We continuously work to create a community where our team members serve trauma survivors and actualize their career growth and individual leadership potential.
The Business Officer will work under the direction of the Institute Director and Institute Managing Director, completing institute and grant administrative duties related to ongoing research trials at The Institute for Trauma Recovery.
This position will develop research study budgets, provide financial support to the Institute’s clinical trials team, and create overall institute budgets and projections. In addition, this position will monitor institute and study expenditures, manage expense tracking and reconciliation, assist in the budget planning and preparation of grant submissions, and regularly provide research financial reports to the Director and Managing Director. The Business Officer will work to organize, execute, and monitor the implementation of new and existing clinical trials and institute budget tracking procedures.
The ideal candidate will have experience independently creating and managing multi-million dollar budgets. Creating and maintaining tracking systems for research grant effort.

The Business Officer will work to organize, execute, and monitor the implementation of new and existing clinical trials and institute budget tracking procedures. The primary purpose of this position is to provide management of technical assistance for and administrative guidance in the preparation and processing of complex research grants and contract proposals and for their procurement, reporting, and administrative management when awarded.