Sr. Manager, Research Support

University of Miami•Miami, FL

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The University of Miami/UHealth Department of SCCC has an exciting full-time opportunity for a Sr. Manager, Research Support to work at the UHealth Medical campus. The Sr. Manager, Research Support leads the research program teams to ensure successful system implementation and upgrades. Specifically, the Sr. Manager, Research Support oversees the day-to-day operations and resources of research staff and supports programs for their growth and development.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
Minimum 5 years of relevant experience
Knowledge of business and management principles.
Ability to direct, manage, implement, and evaluate department operations.
Ability to establish department goals, and objectives that support the strategic plan.
Ability to effectively plan, delegate and/or supervise the work of others.
Ability to lead, motivate, develop, and train others.

Responsibilities

Conducts meetings with research staff and ensures functions are coordinated in a timely and accurate manner.
Provides technical support and resolves operational problems.
Oversees department budget and identifies areas of opportunity for cost reduction.
Assists in the preparation and publication of manuscripts.
Recruits and trains research staff and prepares performance reports and disciplinary recommendations for the leadership team.
Analyzes reports, data briefs, and auxiliary publications for new topic modules.
Defines and produces indicators for a data visualization platform.
Establishes and continuously assesses the effectiveness of the internal controls within the unit and compliance with university policies and procedures.
Ensures employees are trained on controls within the function and on university policy and procedures.
Work directly with principal investigators of assigned institutional training grants (e.g. K12), departmental and sponsoring agency personnel as needed to administer grant responsibilities such as onboarding trainees, developing progress reports and tracking trainee activities.
Coordinate with Sylvester members in the preparation and submission of annual and final reports to granting agencies.
Responsible for maintaining meeting and reporting schedule for assigned grants managed by OET.
Responsible for being the administrator for assigned training grant awards. This includes Coordinating meetings, coordinating reviews, preparing reports, monitoring financial status, maintaining timelines and resolving all issues.
Work directly with the Associate Director for Faculty Development to implement the newly developed Faculty Development Program, which includes grant review and mentoring components.
Work directly with the Office of Education and Training (OET) Manager to initiate and collect information for the development of new program proposals.
Work directly with the OET Manager to initiate and collect information for the development of reports pertaining to current status, and progress towards achieving clearly defined goals.
This position also handles duties which include project coordination, drafting preliminary proposals for new initiatives, as well as financial analysis for specific projects as assigned.