Assistant Director For Research Contracts

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Assistant Director for Research Contracts
Responsibilities: Manages a team of Sponsored Research (SR) Contracts Officers. Provides daily guidance and mentoring to staff on operational and policy issues, as well as routine activities. Reviews and monitors the daily workflow of proposals, aging list, and reassigns work as needed. Maintain awareness of individual workload and flow of contracts and other administrative activities. Provides input to office-wide meetings and team meetings. Facilitates cross-team collaborations to understand important and frequent contracting issues and to ensure seamless handoffs between Grant Officers and Contract Officers in all SR units Hires, promotes, evaluates and counsels staff with input from Director and Executive Director. Maintains and manages an advanced portfolio of sponsored research activity for designated university schools, departments and/or centers. Exercise delegated signature authority from the Executive Director. Reviews, negotiates, and signs research contracts, clinical trial agreements, other award documents, and administrative correspondence to sponsors as authorized by the University president. Safeguards university interests with respect to indemnification, intellectual property, publications, export controls, liability, effort reporting, and compliance issues. Ensures compliance and fiscal integrity of proposal submissions and appropriated awards. Supports Contract Officers and the Director in the negotiation of complex projects including serving as the lead/expert negotiator when needed. Constructs various complex contracts, subcontracts, and other legal documents. Serves as expert in contractual terms and interpretation of contracts. Alerts the Director when resolution is not able to be reached in a timely manner or when there are issues that are broad-based or potentially applicable to or problematic in other situations. Solicits input from Principal investigators and other central administrative offices, such as IRB, ACUC, INVO, ASRSP, General Counsel, and Risk Management as appropriate. Represents Sponsored Research in meetings with principal investigators, school administrators, and senior university administrators in areas related to sponsored research. Provide guidance on policies and procedures. Accurately convey current practices in research administration and work collaboratively across all sectors of the university to develop appropriate changes in procedures and policies, and implement best practices, standard operating procedures, and tools for the benefit of the university community. Present as needed to a variety of constituents including campus-wide and national meetings. Participates in the development and implementation of new policies and revisions to existing policies. Develops, implements and trains staff in standard procedures that support **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. research policy. Coordinates with other units to ensure the timing and integrity of the sponsored research life cycle. Communicates and presents procedures and policy within OSR and externally to the university community. Assists in the development of the agenda for the campus-specific sponsored research campus meetings. Participates in the University-wide initiative to implement grants management software. Monitors policy changes implemented by external sponsors (related to electronic research administration and otherwise). Assists faculty and staff in electronic proposal submissions and award monitoring. Provides significant input to optimize enterprise-level systems supporting research administration, and participates in managing change within the research administration community. Provides education, training and research information for SR staff and NU departments, schools and Centers through a variety of venues. Participates in designing and implementing research administration training programs. Leads ongoing service excellence and continuous improvement initiatives. Optimizes staff skills and organizational structure and is responsible for staff development and continuing education. Provides staff with feedback and direction. Advises Director and Executive Director on emerging and pressing issues. Participates in resolution of issues.

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