What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Administrator, Pre-Award Lead - School of Medicine - Medicine Research Administration [...] position at Emory University?
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Description
JOB DESCRIPTION :
- Reporting to the Research Administration Services (RAS) unit leadership, leads, and in some instances supervises, a cohort of staff performing pre-award activities for the sponsored projects research portfolio for their assigned department, division, and / or school.
- Provides guidance to team members, as appropriate.
- Monitors workload distribution and redistributes tasks, as assigned by Pre-Award Manager.
- Mentors staff for professional development.
- Understands and applies federal and university rules to management of effort allocation for individuals compensated whole or in part from federal awards.
- Applies costing rules and regulations to federally funded projects.
- Analyzes information and formulates conclusions. Ensures strong levels of customer service to faculty and departments being served.
- Escalates issues that violate performance levels or terms of the RAS performance level agreements, both with internal RAS staff and with departments and / or faculty.
- Provides back-up to the Pre-Award Manager.
- Assists the Pre-Award Manager with developing and conducting trainings, as well as creating and updating resources and job aids.
- Performs proposal reviews during routing, in addition to holding a portfolio.
- Performs pre-award activities to include developing a budget, compiling proposal contents, routing proposals through internal systems and processes, assisting PIs in submission of JIT information, interacting with OSP and assisting in the preparation of sub-recipient documents and relationships with other partners on proposals.
- Manages weekly award setup status reviews and updates, monitoring awards in progress to ensure timely progression through the process.
- Provides general support to the team in a lead capacity, answering questions, providing resources, explaining complex scenarios, etc.
- Cross trains in post-award functions to help develop smooth handoffs between pre- and post-award.
- Performs related responsibilities as required.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :
NOTE : This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to Emory University location as needed. All biweekly employees must reside within the State of Georgia. Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to employee.
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