Business Manager - Infectious Diseases
About The Position
The Business Manager supports the Division of Infectious Diseases and its large, research-intensive portfolio. The role combines people leadership, research financial management, and partnership with division leaders and investigators. The manager leads financial and administrative professionals, supports faculty and research programs in understanding financial performance, manages sponsored-award activity, and contributes to operational decision-making. The position oversees post-award research financial activities, including reporting, expenditure review, forecasting, issue resolution, and sponsor-compliant award management. The manager partners with the Senior Business Director and division leadership on the annual fiscal-year budget and ongoing financial performance, supports financial administration for faculty research portfolios, coordinates with Sponsored Programs and other institutional partners, and helps maintain training-grant activity and other complex sponsored research portfolios. The role also provides day-to-day oversight of business operations and human resource administration for multiple programs or cost centers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- At least 3 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
- Clear, confident people leadership and the ability to help experienced staff make sound decisions.
- Ability to organize competing priorities and keep complex work moving across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and practical problem-solving skills.
- Comfort learning specialized research programs and adapting to different faculty portfolios.
- Financial judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to explain financial information usefully.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting sponsored research, grants, post-award administration, or research finance.
- People-management, team-lead, or supervisory experience.
- Experience in an academic medical center, hospital, university, research foundation, or similarly complex research environment.
- Knowledge of institutional research systems and processes; internal institutional knowledge is helpful but not required.
- Experience supporting high-volume or complex research portfolios and partnering with principal investigators.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support a team of financial and administrative professionals by setting priorities, balancing workload, and reinforcing accountability.
- Oversee post-award research financial activities, including regular financial reporting, expenditure review, forecasting, issue resolution, and sponsor-compliant award management.
- Partner with the Senior Business Director and division leadership on the annual fiscal-year budget and ongoing financial performance.
- Support financial administration for faculty research portfolios, including monthly or quarterly reporting based on investigator needs.
- Coordinate with Sponsored Programs and other institutional partners on award requirements, subawards, invoicing, reporting, and deliverables.
- Help maintain training-grant activity and other complex sponsored research portfolios.
- Provide day-to-day oversight of business operations and human resource administration for multiple programs or cost centers.
- Build productive working relationships with faculty, research teams, business partners, and institutional offices.
Benefits
- Benefits may apply.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
