Job Opening ID: 64927

Reports To: Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health

Working Title: Assistant Director, Research Post-Award

Department: Public Health Personnel

Bargaining Unit: 99

FLSA: Exempt

Payroll Job Code: 006207

Job Location: UCI Campus- Irvine

Percent of Time: 100%

Work Schedule: 8-5, M-F

Employee Class: Staff

UCI Public Health is dedicated to the achievement of health equity for all populations through teaching, research, service and public health practice locally and globally. Championing the principles of evidence-based public health science, the program aspires to understand and impact population level social, biological and environmental determinants of health and well-being. Drawing from the diverse expertise of its faculty, it aims to educate the future workforce of California and beyond through exceptional programs and experiential learning opportunities. Learn more at publichealth.uci.edu.

Under general supervision, the Assistant Director of Research, Post-Award will oversee the post-award management across the academic units in the Program in Public Health. The incumbent will oversee the research administrators and develop processes and protocols to improving workflow efficiency. The incumbent will oversee and manage the process of post-award grant management, reconciliation, forecasting and preparing reports for various accounts (contracts, grants, gifts, discretionary). Major duties include restricted and unrestricted funds management, contracts and grants budget monitoring, Public Health Centers budgeting, reconciliation of divisional accounts with accounting ledgers and financial account transfers. Develops and maintains systems to assure conformity with UC accounting policies. Utilize KFS and DSS to generate reports, ensure data is accurately reported in the system. Audit and analyze data for assigned projects. The incumbent will coordinate with the Director of Finance on financial matters pertaining to post-award administration and program centers including payroll, accounts, reports, reconciliation, and program related trainings. The incumbent is responsible for all aspects of proposal post award administration and management. Working Pre-award knowledge is preferred. Incumbent manages in-house financial reports for use by the faculty. The duties of this position require interaction with program officers and sponsors at federal, state and industry funding agencies as well as counterparts from the UCI Sponsored Projects, UCI contract and grant accounting office, and various other UC Campus departments. Incumbent is responsible for providing specific direction to faculty and staff to assure compliance with recent revisions to contract and grant costing principals. This requires knowledge in agency specific contracts and grants policies; material management to include purchasing and equipment acquisition principles; personnel/payroll policies and procedures; gift administration; recharge principles; research subcontracting concepts; indirect cost principles; policies and practices related to Uniform Guidance/UG, FDP, Federal CAS requirements. Ability to step in and support PIs during periods of high volume. Ad hoc duties as needed. This position reports to the Associate Dean/Director of Research, with a dotted line reporting to the Director of Finance. The expected pay range for this position is $81,900-116,200, within the full salary range of $81,900-150,500.

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