Manager, Research Management (MGB Orthopedics)

Mass General Brigham•Boston, MA

4d•$99,466 - $144,643•Hybrid

About The Position

MGB’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery is seeking a Manager, Research Management. The role provides high-level support to Research Finance leadership, Pre- and Post-Award teams, research faculty, and research support staff. It manages pre-award and post-award activities for a portfolio of sponsored programs, including maintaining the financial health of accounts and ensuring compliance with sponsor and institutional terms and conditions. The position also supports proposal development, submission, and post-submission follow-up for assigned investigators and others as needed. This position does not require patient care. It is a regular, hybrid role based at 60 Fenwood Road, with a 40-hour scheduled workweek on the day shift.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Business Administration required; experience cannot be substituted for a degree.
2–3 years of grant management or finance experience required.
3–5 years of grant administration or finance experience required.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Teams, and Word.
High degree of accuracy when working with large amounts of financial data.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
High degree of initiative and ability to independently identify and solve problems.
Strong organizational skills; ability to work under time constraints and deadlines and balance competing priorities.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Business Administration preferred.
Working knowledge of research agency funding guidelines, policies, and directives is extremely helpful.

Responsibilities

Manage multiple proposals concurrently in accordance with sponsor, institutional, and departmental guidelines, policies, and best practices.
Assume financial control of assigned departments and review investigators’ funding expenditures.
Monitor cost allowability, administrative reasonableness, award applicability, and funding availability.
Prepare forecast reports for principal investigators and senior research leaders on an ad hoc and periodic basis.
Collaborate with the Research Finance Coordinator to process contracts, orders, and payments.
Manage the finance team by providing training, coaching, performance assessment, and direction of daily work.
Work with principal investigators to create budgets and upload them to the relevant Insight record as part of the submission process.
Create billing agreements and clinical trial and industry basic science records.
Manage pre-award and post-award activities for the assigned sponsored-program portfolio, including proposal development, submission, follow-up, account financial health, and compliance.